英-基尔大学-Agent Newsletter January 2025

1. Welcome for January 2025 will begin on Monday 27 January 2025
2. Important dates and deadlines for Sep 25 intake
3. Postgraduate open events 2025
4. Keele Deputy Vice-Chancellor receives OBE for services to education and to sustainability
5. Keele alumna becomes the first female President of Namibia
6. MBE for leading professor whose research led to service redesign in the NHS

Congratulations on getting your students' place at Keele University. We can't wait to welcome your students!

Our Student Services Hub is located in the Claus Moser Building and is open every weekday for you to ask questions and access support from our front-line team or by booking either virtual or in-person appointments with our specialist teams. The team can answer your questions on a range of topics including accommodation, parking, payments, DBS checks, and support services available to you. Pop in, call 01782 734481 or email student.services@keele.ac.uk.

Here are some key dates for the 2024/25 academic year for your reference, and please click here.

We would like to share the confirmed deadlines below for September 2025 intake. Please make sure to meet the deadlines and avoid any delays. 

For postgraduates, our rural campus community provides an environment that is focused, relevant and mature. You will have full access to our respected academics and benefit from our excellence in research. Keele offers a full range of postgraduate programmes, that will enable you to progress your career and broaden your opportunities. 

Our next Postgraduate Open Event will take place on Wednesday 5 February 2025 (virtual event 10am-12pm; in-person event 2pm-4pm).

To find more information, please click here.

The Deputy Vice-Chancellor of Keele University has received an OBE in the 2025 New Year Honours list for services to education and to sustainability.

Professor Mark Ormerod has dedicated most of his working life to enhancing and promoting environmental sustainability and has an international profile for his leadership, advocacy and communication of sustainability, low carbon and clean technology issues.

Responsible for helping lead the University’s activities in sustainability and low carbon energy since 2008, Mark has been instrumental in helping to embed sustainability in all aspects of Keele's operations – including education, research, external engagement and partnerships and the campus and community – and in raising its profile. In 2021, Keele was awarded Global Sustainability Institution of the Year at the International Green Gown Awards, building on its success at the UK and Ireland Green Gown Awards earlier that year, and in 2018 the University won the Outstanding Sustainability Leadership Team Award.

Mark has spent the last 32 years of his career working at Keele since joining as a lecturer in Physical Chemistry from the University of Cambridge in 1992 where he studied, researched and taught for nine years, latterly as the University's Oppenheimer Fellow. In 1997 he was awarded a prestigious Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council Advanced Research Fellowship and promoted to Professor of Clean Technology and Inorganic Materials Chemistry at Keele in recognition of his research achievements.

A former Keele University student has made history by becoming the first female President of Namibia.

Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah, who was previously the country's vice-president and Minister of International Relations and Cooperation, won the general election with more than 57 per cent of the vote.

The country's fifth president, Netumbo, aged 72, graduated from Keele in 1989 with a Masters degree in diplomatic studies. She has served in high government office in the country for a quarter of a century and becomes Keele's first graduate to become a Head of State.

Professor Trevor McMillan OBE, Vice-Chancellor of Keele University, said: "Our global network of over 100,000 alumni in 120 countries is creating positive impact across the world in a range of diverse careers.

"We're very proud that our community of alumni can now count a Head of State within their ranks, especially coming during Keele's 75th anniversary year, and we wish Netumbo success during her time in office."

A Keele University professor has received an MBE in the 2025 New Year Honours list for services to medical research.

Professor Elaine Hay has devoted her career to understanding the causes and consequences of back pain and other musculoskeletal disorders, and to improving primary care for patients through her research focused on evaluating new treatments.

Her work has contributed to national policies and international guidelines and has led to service redesign in the NHS that has reduced wait times and improved care for patients. In the last 30 years, Elaine has secured almost £40 million in external grants to support new research into diseases and conditions like osteoarthritis and tennis elbow, leading to Keele University and its clinical partners in North Staffordshire becoming internationally renowned in the field of primary care musculoskeletal research.