The Roman Baths’ new state-of-the-art learning centre is to open next month – the second boost to the city’s visitor economy in as many months. Based in a former Victorian spa laundry building – along with an area of Roman remains beneath street level – the Roman Baths Clore Learning Centre will allow pre-booked school and...
Bath Spa University has achieved its best-ever results in a UK-wide assessment of the quality and impact of academic research. The Research Excellence Framework (REF) takes place every six or seven years. Since the previous assessment in 2014, the amount of Bath Spa’s research achieving the highest status of ‘world leading’ has increased by...
Digital learning and development company RTS Group is looking to accelerate its post-pandemic growth after securing financial support from regional alternative lender SWIG Finance. The agency, based at Notton, near Lacock, uses data insights to create bespoke learning and development services to enable businesses across the world upskill their workforces. Pre-pandemic, RTS typically...
Bath-based PR agency Clearly has bolstered its senior leadership team with the appointment of James Gwinnett as an associate director. James, pictured, joins after two years heading communications for 87% – a technology start-up with a mission to improve corporate mental health. Having helped guide 87% through the pandemic, he worked on a £1.5m...
Each week Bath Business News gives a prominent member of the area’s business community the last word on its weekly e-bulletin. This week Jessica Morgan, founder and owner of Marshfield-based PR agency Carnsight Communications, answers our 10 questions. What was the LAST: Film you watched? A Time to Die. I’m only a year late! I was holding out to...
Bath-headquartered media group Future this week said it was on track to achieving its aim of half of all Americans reading its online titles as it unveiled another set of soaring sales and profit figures. The group, which has been transformed over recent years through a raft of strategic acquisitions, said its US audience reach...
A Bath Spa University lecturer who produced a double BAFTA-winning TV drama has said she will use the experience when she teaches her students. Sophie Francis, pictured, a senior lecturer in film and media courses at the university, worked on the first and second series of BBC Three’s Wales-based coming of age drama series...
The future of publishing in a world where anyone with access to technology can do it was explored at a recent interactive event hosted by Bath Spa University and showcasing two innovative city-based firms. Bringing together academics, creatives, investors and techies, the event explored themes ranging from how innovative technologies can reach new audiences...
Bath media group Future has become the sixth-largest fashion and beauty publisher in the US following its latest acquisition. The group, which has built up a strong portfolio of titles in North America over recent years through a string of takeovers and has content reaching one-in-three adults online, is paying a reported $100m (£82m)...
Bath’s world-leading Fashion Museum is set to relocate to a major building in the city centre in a move that will also kick-start the transformation of the surrounding area into a new creative quarter. Bath & North East Somerset Council (B&NES) is poised to buy the 22,000 sq ft building in what will be...
