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REVEAL 2019: A summer of success for Northumbria's creatives
Press releases • Jun 14, 2019 15:03 BST
REVEAL 2019 – Northumbria University’s End of Year showcase for its creative programmes – opens to the public on Thursday 20 June.
Northumbria University graduate revealed as 2019’s Gillian Dickinson North East Young Sculptor winner
Press releases • Jun 10, 2019 16:48 BST
Bethan Williams, 21, a Fine Art graduate from Northumbria University, has been revealed as the winner of the Gillian Dickinson North East Young Sculptor Award (GDNEYS) 2019.
Multidisciplinary partnership awarded ‘outstanding’ rating
Press releases • Jun 10, 2019 13:11 BST
Northumbria University is proud to announce that a Knowledge Transfer Partnership project, which has brought together industry and academic experts to develop a new biomedical device, has been given the highest possible rating by an independent government assessor.
Students take centre stage for new play inspired by the North East
Press releases • May 23, 2019 14:53 BST
Final year drama students from Northumbria University are preparing to give the debut performance of award-winning playwright Chinonyerem Odimba’s new work, Land: Beating the Bounds at Live Theatre, Newcastle from Wednesday 29 May – Saturday 1 June.
Out of the classroom and into the art gallery
Press releases • May 21, 2019 15:29 BST
A new project will bring literature to life for GCSE pupils by taking them out of their classrooms and into two North East art galleries.
Literature expert addresses House of Commons inquiry
Press releases • May 10, 2019 14:51 BST
A contemporary literature expert from Northumbria University has been invited to give evidence at the Performers’ Alliance All-Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) inquiry into the class ceiling in the creative sector.
Animation brings family history to life in moving new film
Press releases • Apr 25, 2019 09:06 BST
A documentary featuring the animation expertise of a Northumbria University academic will make its North East debut next weekend.
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).