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Phil: In the school of Health and Sport Sciences we provide advisory and support to the organisers
of the London Marathon.
Steve: That sort of set up enables the students to hopefully get inspired by helping people.
If they can't get inspired by that then I don't know what's going on.
Phil: It's about this concept, the moment of transformation and I think to get people
thinking about that pure thought of transformation really does capture what a University is there
and about.
Liz: We're trying to drive it from a case study point of view.
Simon: So it's very much about using areas that are representative of the impacts that
we've had, creatively, regionally, commercially to show where we're changing things and how
much impact we can bring to various sectors.
Phil: Well we're doing more to kind of spell out, explain and draw attention to the wider
range of impacts that having a University in this county is having, not just upon the
county, but on the wider country and internationally.
Liz: For me I find that very exciting that there is a story behind this campaign. It's
not just about what we achieve academically, it's about what students do whilst they're
at the University of Northampton.
Simon: The three that we've adopted, one of them we call running man, that is a link back
to how we work with the London Marathon, how we support the people that are running there,
through a strong course that we have within our health school. That is a chance for us
to say, we are there, we are recognised as being leaders in this field and it's an area
where we've had a strong impact on an event that people will recognise.
Steve: We take the students down to treat people as they finish running their marathon
and let the students get a chance to apply their knowledge. It's a field clinic situation,
it's acute injuries. The students given a fair bit of autonomy to apply their own knowledge
and albeit it's quite simple really, a lot of stuff is blisters, but they're managing
the patients on their own and also matching their skills against other practitioners.
They're seeing physios, they're seeing St Johns Ambulance, they're seeing doctors, and
they're realising, I think, that we have a role to play in the whole healthcare scheme.