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Our 2025 Highlights: 16 moments that made last year unforgettable

Wednesday 7th January 2026

Our top 16 moments from 2025 (in no particular order)…

 

1

We welcomed 72 new Master's students from 13 different countries 🌍

 

2

We established a Practitioner Research Centre

 

3

We welcomed three Independent Researchers into our community! 

We continue to develop people after graduation as they join us as independent researchers

 

4

We introduced our first Research Associate position

 

5

Our Class of 2025 graduated in July🎓

 

6

Six students and alumni published their work

 

7

We delivered an exciting symposium on Musical Theatre Athleticism, leading to the Musical Theatre Research Alliance 🎭

 

8

Our first-ever one-year, full-time MA Voice Pedagogy cohort began their studies in September

 

9

We delivered four free-to-attend events, including our Accents & Dialects Symposium in partnership with the University of Essex! 

You can watch them here

 

10

Our Senior Lecturer Dr Claire Thomas was awarded her PhD👏

 

11

We ran 13 different online certificated courses📜

 

12

We delivered over 130 online short courses!

P.S. learning doesn’t just happen in a classroom, it happens wherever YOU are!🗺️💻

Thank you for sharing your short course moments with us on social media...

 

13

We were continually inspired by the achievements of our students, alumni, and staff – and shared as many as we could here

 

14

We took you inside the lived experiences of our students with the launch of our interview series 📽️

 

15

One of our short courses led to a Tongue Tie Revelation 👅

 

16

Our community continued to grow across social media, including our Voice Geeks group

 

We could go on.


Thank you for being part of our community, and a huge well done for all you accomplished in 2025. Here’s to growth, gratitude, and an even more exciting 2026 ✨


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