Subject specific activities

Our School of Allied Community Health offers the following subjects: Chiropractic; Diagnostic Radiography; Occupational Therapy; Operating Department Practice; Physiotherapy; Social Work; Sports Rehabilitation; and Therapeutic Radiography.

If your students would like an interactive academic session from one of these courses with an Information Advice and Guidance Session to support your students with applying to university, please contact the Student Recruitment and Outreach Team to register your interest and a member of the Outreach Team will be in touch with further details!

Our School of Arts and Creative Industries offers the following subjects: Acting and Performance; Fashion Communications; Film and Television Practice; Game Design and Development; Media Production; and Music and Sound Design.

If your students would like an interactive academic session from one of these courses with an Information Advice and Guidance Session to support your students with applying to university, please contact the Student Recruitment and Outreach Team to register your interest and a member of the Outreach Team will be in touch with further details!

Please note these workshops are suitable for Year 11s+

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Fashion Communications	Become a Loudspeaker for the fashion industry!	Would you like to find out what being a Fashion Communicator entails? Are you intrigued by the Fashion industry, creativity and practices? Our Fashion Communication Taster session, you will dive into the world of fashion images and texts, films and sounds and discover how creative professionals create memorable experiences, and deliver branded messages and unforgettable stories.
Game Design and Development	Crafting playable experiences and working in multidisciplinary teams developing games	This interactive session will introduce you to fundamental skills for level design. It will help you understand the requirements and creative decisions behind making an environment that the player must navigate and inhabit. You'll also get to meet members of our faculty who teach on the course and see for yourself the friendly team-focused game development culture at LSBU.
Media Production	How to create Engaging Online Content	Are you interested in creating engaging online content? Do you want to use the power of video and sound to tell the world about something big? This taster session will introduce you to video editing using Adobe Premiere. Media Production is about producing content and using online platforms to share it – and it all starts here.
Music and Sound Design	Making Music with Ableton Live	Take your creativity to the next level with an introduction to making electronic music in Ableton Live. Whether you want to make your own beats, compose music for video games or design your own sounds from scratch, Ableton Live is a versatile and fun piece of music software used across the industry. This taster session will introduce you to the basics of creating your own music in Ableton Live and give you an insight into studying Music and Sound Design at university.

Our School of Applied Science offers the following subjects: Biomedical Science; Forensic Science; Sports and Exercise Science; Psychology; and Baking Science and Technology*.

‎These workshops are tailored to your school's needs, giving your students a chance to explore different subject areas and discover what university life is like by speaking to our Academics and Student Ambassadors.

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*Please note that for our Baking Science and Technology Workshops, LSBU will need to be informed of any known allergies or intolerances any of the participants may have prior to the workshop.

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If your students would like an interactive academic session from one of these courses with an Information Advice and Guidance Session to support your students with applying to university, please contact our Student Recruitment and Outreach Team if you would like to register a group of your students to attend one of our bespoke workshops and the team will be in touch with further information!

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Biomedical Science Workshops	Dividing Cells (suitable for Year 11+)	In this practical session, students will prepare and observe dividing cells from the meristems of actively growing garlic root tips.
Biomedical Science Workshops	Creating a DNA model (suitable for Year 7-10)	Students will participate in extracting DNA and creating a DNA model. Your students will also construct a DNA double-helix model and be able to gain a better understanding of why this structure is essential for cell division.
Forensic Science Workshops	Forensic Fingerprinting Evidence	In this session, your students will learn about identifying their fingerprint patterns. They will also enhance some invisible fingermarks using forensic chemical enhancement techniques and solve the cold case whodunnit quiz.
	Forensic Drug Analysis	In this chemical detective workshop, you will learn about and use different forensic analysis techniques to identify types of chemical evidence. You will use presumptive testing kits to indicate the nature of the samples and confirmatory instrumental analysis to confirm the identity of the evidence.
	Crime Scene Investigation	A crime has been committed and Scene of Crime Officers have been called to the scene! In this practical workshop, you will process the crime scene in our crime scene flat and record and recover the forensic evidence. (Only available in Semester 1: Sept-Dec)
Sports and Exercise Science	Field and Laboratory Fitness Testing	Fitness assessments are a series of tests that measure an individual's physical fitness level across two broad areas: health and skill-related components. In this session, students will build on the knowledge developed from their BTEC studies and explore a range of field and laboratory-based testing protocols
Sports and Exercise Science	Exercise Physiology – measurement of maximum anaerobic power output	In this session, we will further students' understanding of energy systems in the human body by way of a short lecture and practical experimentation. Students will participate in a maximal power output experiment involving 6 x 10s maximum sprints on a cycle ergometer and go on to analyse their data.
Psychology	Psychology, the Brain and Forensic Psychology	Our session will cover two broad areas of psychology: psychology and the brain, and forensic psychology. Students will be exposed to concepts related to the study of the brain and how visual illusions can inform us about our perception of reality. They will also learn about the contribution of forensic psychology research to areas such as deception detection and police interviewing.
Baking Science and Technology	Sensory Evaluation of Food	This workshop will cover the best and most complex analytical instrument in the world, the human senses. Students will learn about the science of sensory evaluation of food, how to taste food products from sweets to chocolate and experience some of the sensory evaluation methods.
	The Story of Chocolate	In this workshop students will learn about how chocolate is produced, starting with cocoa beans and ending up with a bar of chocolate. How is the soft, luxurious and delicious flavour and texture of chocolate created? During this session, students will be able to taste chocolates from different origins, with different flavour profiles.
	A Food Safety Mystery	Students will learn about food safety and the risks around poor food hygiene. How can you keep food safe from spoilage and people safe from allergic reactions? Students will also learn to spot food safety risks like a food safety detective.

Our School of Built Environment and Architecture offers the following subjects: Architecture; Civil Engineering; Building Services Engineering; Surveying; Property Management; and Commercial and Construction Management.

If your students would like an interactive academic session from one of these courses with an Information Advice and Guidance Session to support your students with applying to university, please contact the Student Recruitment and Outreach Team to register your interest and a member of the Outreach Team will be in touch with further details!

Our Business School offers the following subjects: Accounting and Finance; Business Management; and Economics and Marketing.

If your students would like an interactive academic session from one of these courses with an Information Advice and Guidance Session to support your students with applying to university, please contact the Student Recruitment and Outreach Team to register your interest and a member of the Outreach Team will be in touch with further details!

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Please note these workshops are suitable for Year 11s+.

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An insight into the World of Business

Through a series of group and individual interactive exercises, students will explore the benefits of studying at LSBU, in order to meet the challenges of today’s Business environment and begin building the transferable skills necessary to be a successful Business leader and entrepreneur.

Our School of Engineering offers the following subjects: Computer Science; Information Technology; Chemical and Energy Engineering; Electrical and Electronic Engineering; Product Design; and Mechanical Engineering.

If your students would like an interactive academic session from one of these courses with an Information Advice and Guidance Session to support your students with applying to university, please contact the Student Recruitment and Outreach Team to register your interest and a member of the Outreach Team will be in touch with further details!

Our School of Law and Social Sciences offers the following subjects: Criminology; Education; Law; Politics and International Relations; Town Planning; and Urban and Environment Planning.

If your students would like an interactive academic session from one of these courses with an Information Advice and Guidance Session to support your students with applying to university, please contact the Student Recruitment and Outreach Team to register your interest and a member of the Outreach Team will be in touch with further details!

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Please note these workshops are suitable for Year 11s+.

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Workshop 1: Bail and Advocacy	This session is designed for students who have upcoming Advocacy Presentations. It focuses on the skills required for effective advocacy and how to use it as a tool to secure bail in a criminal case.
Workshop 2: Stop and Search	A structured evaluation session ideal for students wanting to critically evaluate the law on stop and search using human rights.
Workshop 3: Participation/Joint Enterprise in Criminal Law	In this workshop, students will critically evaluate how the law deals with Participation/Joint Enterprise issues e.g. in the context of a group/gang committing a murder.
Workshop 4: Mooting	A structured practical session ideal for students wanting to learn how to use advocacy as a tool in a criminal appeal on a homicide case where the defendant has potentially diminished responsibility.
Workshop 5: Studying Law at Uni and Law Careers	This session looks at studying Law at university and Law Careers and employability, including applications, CVs, interviews, work experience, and utilising LinkedIn.
Workshop 6: Politics and International Relations	What are the most pressing issues on the national and international agenda at the moment? How can we think about them ‘politically’ and what such thinking can add to our ability to understand them, and actively participate in changing or challenging them? This taster session will introduce you to political thinking, to the concept of ‘power’ and together we will discuss why all this matters to our lives as citizens of a global community.

Our School of Nursing and Midwifery offers the following subjects: Adult Nursing; Children’s Nursing; Learning Disability Nursing; Mental Health Nursing; and Midwifery.

If your students would like an interactive academic session from one of these courses with an Information Advice and Guidance Session to support your students with applying to university, please contact the Student Recruitment and Outreach Team to register your interest and a member of the Outreach Team will be in touch with further details!