THE University of Cumbria has welcomed a new chaplaincy coordinator who describes her appointment as a ‘real homecoming’.

The Rev Alexandra Logan originally trained as a youth and community worker at St Martin’s College in Lancaster, which is now the university’s Bowerham Road campus and is where she is based.

She said: “I am delighted to be returning to the university where I was a student for a year, and to the Diocese of Blackburn where I was a curate. For me this is a real homecoming.”

The Rev Logan, who took up her role on January 6, will oversee chaplaincy work across all university sites.

She will have particular responsibility for the Lancaster campus.