Bath Spa University Alumni

📣 Calling all Interior Design and Business Grads 📣

Are you a creative entrepreneur looking for your next chapter? As Nick Hewett steps back from his thriving family business in Bath, there's a rare opportunity for a new custodian to take over and make it their own.

✉️📞 Interested? Find out more about Aspect Window Styling by emailing [email protected], or ring 07771 851 150
🔗 aspectwindowstyling.co.uk

This offer is in its last 2 weeks - enquire before the end of October at the latest 🩵

Graduated between May and July 2025? Keep an eye out for an email, text or phone call inviting you to take part!

It takes just 10 minutes to complete online, and your response could help shape higher education policy and influence the graduate job market.

Remember, your voice matters 💙

Drawing Together: The Bath Academy of Art at Corsham 🏛️✏️

Marking 80 years since Bath Academy of Art moved to Corsham Court in 1946, Drawing Together reunited works and stories from three dispersed collections to explore the Academy's influential history in new ways.

Co-curated by BSU Archive and Collections, Chippenham Museum, and the Young Gallery, the touring exhibition also brings past and present generations together, with over 40 BSU students helping to shape the project.

The exhibition is at the Young Gallery in Salisbury until 21 November 2026, and then will move on to Chippenham Museum from 4 December before concluding at BSU's Michael Pennie Gallery in 2027 🩵

📣 Locksbrook Late Winter Makers Market - Apply Now! 📣

We would love you to be a part of our Locksbrook Late Winter Makers Market 🎄✨

If you're a BSU student, staff member, or alumni with something to sell, we'd love to hear from you. Whether you make art, jewellery, ceramics, prints, textiles, or gifts, this is an opportunity to share your work and sell directly to our community.

🗓️ Thursday 3 December '26
⏰ 17:00 - 21:00
📍Locksbrook Campus

There is no fee to take part

🔗 Application - https://forms.cloud.microsoft/pages/responsepage.aspx?id=U2ZwI1fNBEWaWQlgJR20sHQTptQC-B5Aklfo8p6duT1UNlRMUEdGOEVCM0k2TDY1U1c1NzgwNkVNOC4u&route=shorturl

Deadline: Friday 23 October

✉️ If you have any questions, please email Lucy Heard: [email protected]

In this month's alumni newsletter, we caught up with Creative Writing graduate, Olivia Tuck 🩵

Olivia shared her stories about her days at BSU, her journey with her poetry, and her adventures in Australia, which all began while studying abroad during her second year 🇦🇺

Olivia's prize winning poetry tackles topics such as mental health, neurodivergency, and queerness, with her most recent success being selected for the Nine Arches Press Primers mentoring scheme, resulting in her poems being published in Primers Volume Eight 📚

Thank you to Olivia for sharing her story with us!

BSU alumnus Luke Taylor is set to take his documentary Briefest Encounters on a national tour with Picturehouse Cinemas this autumn 🎥🍁

Briefest Encounters was created by Luke Taylor and Joanna Crosse, and explores the stories of Joanna's grandparents and their connection to David Lean's Brief Encounter. So far, Luke and Joanna's film has been screened at the Little Theatre Cinema in Bath, as well as York, and Piccadilly Circus, London.

Throughout the rest of September and October, Briefest Encounters will be screened across the UK, with Q&As taking place at selected venues 🎤

The tour will conclude in Bath on Wednesday 25 November, which will be one year since the documentary was launched.

🔗 Find out more in the September edition of the alumni newsletter

In our latest '5 Minutes With...' we catch up with Thomas Murphy, a Philosophy, Religion, and Ethics graduate who has just released his first novel, Seven Seconds! 🎊📚

Thomas talks about what his life looks like now, and how his degree led him to the pathway he's on now. He discusses how the route to publishing his book was certainly not linear, and advocates for using persistence and patience to achieve your goals 🩵

Seven Seconds is a psychological drama that explores love, loss, grief, and the resilience of the human spirit - hitting shelves on 24 September 2026! Follow to keep up to date ✨

PGCE Primary and Early Years student Liv Hellewell has recently shared her story on securing a job as a Reception class teacher for this September 🩵

After completing her undergraduate degree here at BSU, Liv chose to continue her studies, and trained to be an early years teacher specialising in the 3-7 age group.

Growing up in a family of teachers, Liv saw first-hand the positive difference they could make in children's lives 🏫✨

🔗 Read the full story on our BSU news webpage - https://www.bathspa.ac.uk/news-and-events/news/2026/pgce-journey/

BSU Graphic Communications graduate Rosie Spring has created the new design for the Bath City FC 2026/27 away shirt 🩵⚽

Rosie was inspired by her fond memories of spending time at the Crescent, sitting in the sun and playing football, wanting to incorporate the city of Bath into her design ☀️

The growing partnership between BSU and Bath City FC allows students the opportunity to work on real-world creative briefs, watching how their ideas come to life.

Well done to Rosie! We are