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More than £480,000 to tackle religious hate crime
Press Releases • Apr 20, 2018 13:31 BST
Northumbria University, Newcastle, is working closely with students to create new and innovative projects to counter religion-based hate crime and harassment, thanks to new funding from the Office for Students (OfS).
Get Ready to Innovate with Northumbria University’s Creative Fuse Team
Press Releases • Apr 13, 2018 10:51 BST
As part of Creative Fuse North East, Northumbria University’s design innovation team is launching two new innovation support programmes: one for clothing and textiles organisations; the other for DJs and musicians.
‘Take On Tomorrow’ with the new edition of Northumbria University News
Press Releases • Apr 09, 2018 11:02 BST
The spring edition of Northumbria University News is here.
Innovative festival reveals the facts behind crime fiction
Press Releases • Mar 27, 2018 11:38 BST
A festival for crime fiction writers and readers offers its audience a rare insight into the fascinating world of real-life criminal investigation.
Just two weeks left to apply for the Woon Prize 2018
Press Releases • Mar 19, 2018 11:17 GMT
Final year undergraduate artists from across the UK have until Tuesday 3 April to apply for one of the UK’s most generous arts prizes.
Britain’s history of migration to be explored in public lecture
Press Releases • Mar 16, 2018 11:50 GMT
While ‘Global Britain’ is a slogan cited often at the moment, people from the constituent nations of the UK have shown great wanderlust for centuries. During the nineteenth-century age of mass migration, migrants from the UK were - in their millions – going out into the world as adventurers, economic migrants and exiles.
EXPERT COMMENT: AI profiling: the social and moral hazards of ‘predictive’ policing
Press Releases • Mar 09, 2018 12:06 GMT
Mike Rowe, Professor of Criminology at Northumbria University, discusses the moral and ethical issues of police use of AI predictions.
Celebrating International Women’s Day in Peru
Press Releases • Mar 08, 2018 10:21 GMT
A Northumbria academic is helping celebrate International Women’s Day with a unique photography exhibition in Peru.
EXPERT COMMENT: Horrible Histories: bringing children an irreverent take on the past for 25 years
Press Releases • Mar 05, 2018 16:30 GMT
Professor of History at Northumbria University, Tom Lawson, discusses Horrible Histories for The Conversation.
Great Exhibition of the North programme announced
Press Releases • Feb 27, 2018 12:27 GMT
A cultural extravaganza will take place in Newcastle and Gateshead this summer, with staff and students from Northumbria University supporting the festival through a wide variety of events and activities.
Region’s charitable history explored in exhibition
Press Releases • Feb 22, 2018 14:09 GMT
An exhibition exploring the history and legacy of philanthropy in the North East is currently taking place in Newcastle.
Business support to spark innovation
Press Releases • Feb 22, 2018 09:04 GMT
Small businesses from the North-East are being invited to take part in fully-funded, action-packed creative workshops to gain a fresh perspective on opportunities and challenges, develop ideas for new products and services, and share experiences with other local businesses.
Northumbria helps celebrate Women’s 100 day
Press Releases • Feb 15, 2018 15:03 GMT
A series of innovative events are taking place across Newcastle to mark 100 years since women finally got the right to vote.
Criminologist explores dark side of The Archers
Press Releases • Feb 14, 2018 14:49 GMT
It is the longest running soap on British radio, billed as ‘an everyday story of country folk’ when it launched in 1951. Now an academic from Northumbria University is exploring the darker side of the BBC Radio 4 show The Archers by examining the role of criminals and crime within the long-running series.
Learn how ‘Geordies’ changed the world with new five-week online course
Press Releases • Feb 07, 2018 11:29 GMT
Where was the light bulb invented? What about the first steam locomotive, or hydroelectricity? Why have you never seen a canal in North-East England? Which was the only UK city outside London that Martin Luther King ever visited?
EXPERT COMMENT: The Other Side of Australia Day
Press Releases • Jan 26, 2018 15:52 GMT
Dr Laura Fish, a writer and senior lecturer in Creative Writing at Northumbria University, discusses indigeneity in the modern world.
IRA and African connections explored during talk
Press Releases • Jan 23, 2018 16:53 GMT
Connections between the African National Congress and Sinn Fein will be explored during a free lecture by Northumbria University academic Dr Connal Parr this week.
EXPERT COMMENT: #MeToo, Sleeping Beauty and the often controversial history of fairy tales
Press Releases • Jan 22, 2018 08:00 GMT
Pete Newbon, Lecturer in Romantic and Victorian Literature at Northumbria University discusses #MeToo, Sleeping Beauty and the often controversial history of fairy tales for The Conversation.
EXPERT COMMENT: Britannia, Druids and the surprisingly modern origins of myth
Press Releases • Jan 19, 2018 08:45 GMT
Professor of Modern History, Matthew Kelly, discusses Britannia, Druids and the surprisingly modern origins of myths for The Conversation.
Two weeks left to enter Northern Writers’ Awards
Press Releases • Jan 18, 2018 15:46 GMT
Writers from across the North of England have just two weeks left to enter this year’s Northern Writers’ Awards.