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Shakespeare Club takes to the road
News • Apr 23, 2019 13:08 BST
Iconic buildings and locations across the North East will play host to a series of discussions exploring some of Shakespeare’s most famous plays.
Digital library brings Sterne and adaptations online
Press Releases • Apr 18, 2019 09:06 BST
Rare books inspired by one of the 18th century’s most successful authors will be made available to the public for the first time through a new online library.
Global Scotland in the age of Brexit
Press Releases • Apr 05, 2019 16:45 BST
With Brexit now looming, Northumbria University’s Professor Tanja Bueltmann will explore Scotland’s past and future as a global nation in her lecture Global Scotland in the Age of Brexit: Historical perspectives on the Scottish diaspora and migration.
Bigg Market past and future reflected in design project
Press Releases • Apr 02, 2019 10:58 BST
Design students from Northumbria University have joined forces with Newcastle Business Improvement District company NE1 Ltd, to create a series of innovative concepts, all designed to attract new audiences to the city’s Bigg Market.
New talent takes to the stage
Press Releases • Mar 19, 2019 12:11 GMT
Six brand new plays, written and performed by a talented new generation of theatre-makers, will take to the stage this week for Live Theatre’s Elevator Festival.
Applications open for The Woon Foundation Painting & Sculpture Prize 2019
Press Releases • Mar 05, 2019 15:36 GMT
Applications for one of the UK’s most generous art prizes are now open, with three prizes worth a total of £40,000 on offer to undergraduate artists studying in the UK.
Partners in detecting and preventing crime: university and police join forces
Press Releases • Feb 12, 2019 10:09 GMT
Northumbria University and Northumbria Police have joined forces in an exciting partnership to help educate the next generation of officers.
Researchers from Northumbria join £200m UKRI research hubs tackling world’s toughest challenges
Press Releases • Jan 30, 2019 16:09 GMT
Northumbria University is delighted to be working with UK Research and Innovation (UKRI), colleagues around the world, and global organisations on interdisciplinary research into key global challenges.
International speakers arrive at Northumbria to discuss latest policing research
Press Releases • Jan 29, 2019 16:19 GMT
Delegates from around the world descended on Northumbria’s campus last week for a prestigious two-day conference on Police Ethnography.
Northumbria lecturer and former student set sail to raise awareness of plastic pollution in the Indian Ocean
Press Releases • Jan 17, 2019 08:55 GMT
A design expert from Northumbria University, Newcastle raising awareness of the impact single use plastic is having on the world’s oceans by helping to create a boat made entirely from rubbish collected from African beaches – including 30,000 flipflops.
EXPERT COMMENT: Mistrust and earthquakes: why Lancashire communities are so shaken by fracking tremors
Press Releases • Dec 17, 2018 13:30 GMT
Anna Szolucha, postdoctoral research fellow at Northumbria University, explores why the impact of tremors at the Preston New Road fracking site near Blackpool are reverberating so strongly throughout the community living on the surface.
US expertise strengthened with new appointment
Press Releases • Dec 13, 2018 14:26 GMT
The ‘special relationship’ between Northumbria University and the United States has been further strengthened with the appointment of a visiting Professor from across the pond.
Remembering and responding on World Aids Day
Press Releases • Nov 28, 2018 10:00 GMT
Staff and students at Northumbria University will mark World AIDS Day by celebrating the life and work of a former academic, and launching two new initiatives aimed at highlighting the challenges faced by those living with Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV).
Kick off the festive season with Northumbria University’s Carol Service
Press Releases • Nov 23, 2018 13:59 GMT
It’s the end of the world as we know it
Press Releases • Nov 20, 2018 09:18 GMT
No, we’re not talking about Brexit this time, but the theme of this year’s Being Human Festival – the national celebration of the Humanities.
Northumbria leads pioneering research into impact of Northern Writers’ Awards
Press Releases • Nov 15, 2018 10:33 GMT
A champion for Northern voices and underrepresented groups, a key element in the North East creative economy, and a talent pipeline for the UK publishing industry. This is the verdict of Professor Katy Shaw’s new research into the value and impact of the Northern Writers Awards (NWAs) – the UK’s largest literary awards of their kind in the country.
Growing up in conflict – project explores experiences of young people in Occupied Palestinian Territories
Press Releases • Nov 08, 2018 10:31 GMT
The experiences of young people growing up amid conflict and crisis will be explored during a new project between Northumbria University, in Newcastle and An-Najah University in the Occupied Palestine Territories.
Extra! Extra! The new edition of Northumbria University News is out now
Press Releases • Oct 29, 2018 10:53 GMT
The Autumn edition of Northumbria University News is here. Packed with the latest news, features and interviews, Northumbria University News is the perfect way to ‘read all about’ the exciting developments taking place across the University.
Uncertain future for EU citizens in the UK post-Brexit
Press Releases • Oct 04, 2018 11:18 BST
More than 3.7m EU citizens living in the UK could find themselves in a state of “eternal limbo” following Brexit, according to the findings of a new report by a Northumbria University academic.
Growing up girl in the North East: Girl-Kind event 2018 gives platform for girls to voice their experiences
Press Releases • Oct 02, 2018 11:10 BST
More than 120 schoolgirls from across the North East will be attending an annual event this weekend highlighting the diversity of girls’ experiences in the region and giving them a chance to let people know what they’re thinking.