💜International Women's Day 2026 💜 8 March 💜
Did you see our #ARUChelmsford campus this week? We're #ARUProud to light up Queen's and Lord Aschroft buildings in purple #ForAllWomenAndGirls.
Read more on our International Women's Day page: https://www.aru.ac.uk/international-womens-day
Congratulations to Professor Gary Packham!
We’re #ARUproud to see our Pro Vice Chancellor for Student Enterprise and Entrepreneurship appointed as a Non‑Executive Director at Enterprise for Life.
Read more 👉 www.aru.ac.uk/news/aru-professor-joins...
We’re #ARUproud to see Dr Simon Cork, Senior Lecturer in Physiology, lending his expertise to a piece in BBC Science Focus exploring the rise of next generation weight loss medications.
Read more here: https://ow.ly/25w150Y7BYr
From left: Professor Viren Swami, Professor Stephen Bustin, Professor Anna Nekaris and Professor Nick Drydakis
We’re #ARUProud to share some incredible news!
Four of our researchers have been ranked among the best in the world for their outstanding contributions to global research.
More: www.aru.ac.uk/news/four-aru-researcher...
#ARUResearch #AcademicExcellence
Congratulations to Professor Michael Almond who has been awarded an MBE in the King’s New Year Honours list!
Read more: www.aru.ac.uk/news/professor-honoured-...
#ARUProud
Graduations begin tomorrow! 🎓
It’s nearly time to celebrate our incredible Class of 2025 as they cross the stage and take the next step in their journey.
Tag us and share your favourite moments using #ARUGraduation!
#ARU #ARUProud #GraduationDay #ClassOf2025
...while Level 4 students took their first steps in systematic behavioural observation at a local zoo.
#FieldSkills #PracticalExperience #CareerReady #ARUproud
Claudia holding an ARU branded glas of blubbly and a pin saying 'It's Prof actually' and smiling into the camera
Celebrating 10 years @aru-biology.bsky.social, now as Professor of Behavioural Biology! Endlessly grateful to the students and collaborators whose curiosity, mentorship, and teamwork made this journey so rewarding, whilst navigating and challenging academia's systemic hurdles #WomenInSTEM #ARUproud
Things I wish I knew before starting uni 🎓
💷 Budget – Track your spending, especially in halls.
⏳ Time – Balance work + downtime to avoid burnout.
🌍 Mindset – Stay open to whatever comes your way.
What’s your top uni tip?
#ARU #StudentTips #UniLife #ARUProud
Professor Maria Vogiatzaki
ARU Architecture professor receives prestigious award
#ARUproud that @angliaruskin.bsky.social's Maria Vogiatzaki has received National Teaching Fellowship from @advancehe.bsky.social
Read more: www.aru.ac.uk/news/archite...
#ARUProud to see our involvement in this project to try and protect our precious #ChalkStream #rivers
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cly8vy3xed0o
We had a great afternoon at #ARU yesterday - fantastic to see the 3rd year acting students present their final showcase. Bravo to all involved! 👏
#Cambridge #Theatre #Students #ActorLife #ARUproud
Delighted to receive the ARU Alumni Public Service Award April 2025.
ARU that signifies creating #InclusiveImpact, celebrating #diversifiedculture
#ARUProud
We are delighted to announce Mary Prior KC as the winner of our Lifetime Achievement Award!
#ARUProud #ARUAlumni #ARUAlumniAwards
Happy evening celebrating Professor Dan Gordon during his inaugural lecture! #SESProud #ARUproud #dreamteam @angliaruskinuni.bsky.social #ARUsport
Check out the special feature on 'Intraspecific Variation in Ecology and Evolution' by our lecturer and guest editor @hannah-wht-eco.bsky.social out now in the Journal of Animal Ecology by @britishecologicalsociety.org #ARUproud besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
It was a lovely place once and I was always so proud ( #aruproud in fact) to be able to post graduation pictures, but I'm not going to be a passive part of an unacceptable echo chamber for the proponents of hate.
Best of luck to out team 'First things first, Amaryllis' competing in the The Botanical University Challenge. Watch live: www.youtube.com/watch?v=SazH... #BUC2025 #ARUproud
Busiest ever day of BEd interviews at #ARU. So #ARUProud of all applicants for joining us on campus to share their passion for teaching & to my amazing team for interviewing over 100 candidates in a day. Their new career starts today 💙 thank you for your support @deanbarber.bsky.social ✨
New paper by our lecturer @wascherclaudia.bsky.social and postgraduate researcher Sam Reynolds: Vocal communication in corvids: a systematic review. #ARUproud #vocalcommunication #corvids #evolution www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Congratulations to @aru-biology.bsky.social Prof Anna Nekaris for receiving the Osman Hill Medal from the @primatesocietygb.bsky.social #ARUproud
Delighted to have been awarded 2 Deans Awards from the Faculty of Science and Engineering at #ARU for outstanding contribution towards improving our people and culture #ARUproud
What a fab Christmassy night! 💚🌟💚 #ARUProud
I work with the best people 💙💛 They make me think, question and realise why that thing is different than I thought it might be. Importantly they care, we have vision and they enrich our work #ARUProud @jennyfog.bsky.social
I do love an ARU Peterborough graduation! Congratulations to all our graduates and your families!! #ARUProud
Great morning hanging out with Holly Lomas (University Hospital Leicester) talking about Autopsies with our Forensic Science students @ Anglia Ruskin University
#aruproud #forensics #pathology
Happy #InternationalWomensDay! A very special one for me, celebrating a recently won #AthenaSWAN departmental silver award for @aru_fse. @AdvanceHE @Athena_SWAN #ARUproud #InspireInclusion
Claudia in front of a computer screen, showing the AdvanceHE homepage and Athena SWAN application
Computer screen showing Advance HE Athena SWAN submission portal
As #AthenaSWAN faculty lead, I just submitted our @aru_fse silver application! Four years full of interesting discussions, difficult conversations, a lot of learning, great successes, many frustrations, inspiring people...so proud of how far we’ve come, and excited to take on new goals! #ARUproud
Cover slide of presentation 'queer nature' by Claudia Wascher (she/her, lesbian flag), Andrew Smith (he/him, gay flag) and Jacob Dunn (he/him, straight ally flag)
Jacob Dunn presenting in front of a slide about queer nature? sex is not binary in the animal kingdom
Andrew Smith presenting in front of a slide 'a spectrum of same-sex behaviour'
Claudia Wascher presenting a slide 'the biological world is incredibly diverse!
This week, we celebrated LGBTQIA+ in STEM day talking about ‘queer nature’, highlighting the diversity of sex and sexuality in nature! #LGBTQIAStemDay #ARUproud
