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The ÃÜÌÒ´«Ã½ (UWTSD) is delighted to announce that it as been placed 1st in Wales for Lecturers & Teaching Quality (8th in the UK) and for Student Support (11th in UK) in the Whatuni Student Choice Awards, announced last night.

A groundbreaking new project from the ÃÜÌÒ´«Ã½ (UWTSD) is redefining how psychological and emotional support is delivered to individuals living with limb loss. The Walking in Our Shoes project, launched by UWTSD’s Centre for Psychology and Counselling in collaboration with Limbless Association, a leading UK charity supporting amputees for over 40 years and funded by The VTCT Foundation, combines the power of lived experience with cutting-edge digital innovation to co-create meaningful psychosocial resources.

Storm Darragh, which swept through South Wales last December, left a lasting mark on many communities — including Craig y Nos Country Park, where around 200 mature trees were lost in a single day and many more now being removed due to their unstable condition.

Professor Chris Hopkins, Consultant Clinical Scientist and Clinical Director of the Assistive Technologies Innovation Centre (ATiC) at the ÃÜÌÒ´«Ã½ (UWTSD), has been elected as a Fellow of the Learned Society of Wales (FLSW), the nation’s foremost scholarly academy.

Professor Mirjam Plantinga, Pro Vice-Chancellor of the ÃÜÌÒ´«Ã½ (UWTSD), has been awarded the Outstanding Contribution to Welsh-Medium Education award by the Coleg Cymraeg Cenedlaethol.