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22 September 2021 12:28

Reputation for research excellence reinforced with four Fellowship awards

Northumbria University’s growing profile for excellence in research has been recognised once again, with the awarding of four prestigious Leverhulme Early Career Fellowships.

From looking at food through to thinking about mental health, public health research is wide-ranging

17 September 2021 09:32

Fuse named in 25 million funded School for Public Health Research refresh

Academics at Northumbria University will continue to be part of a prestigious collaboration bringing together England’s leading public health research expertise.

The Deep Discoveries project was launched to explore ways of creating a computer vision search platform that can identify and match images across digitised collections on a national scale. © The National Archives, V&A, and RGBE

16 September 2021 11:41

Design meets artificial intelligence to create new visual search engine

Novel methods of searching the nation’s gallery, library and museum collections could soon be revolutionised by a visual search platform designed in collaboration with Northumbria University.

FIBA Europe basketball players celebrating their success

15 September 2021 16:36

Elite basketball players celebrate graduating with Northumbria

Top basketball players from across Europe have celebrated graduating on a range of leadership and management courses delivered by Northumbria University’s Newcastle Business School.
The 47 players were taking part in FIBA Europe’s TIME OUT 2.0 education programme – an initiative to help professional basketball players build careers when they retire from the sport. FIBA Europe, the European off

The Textiles 2030 agreement is designed to limit the impact clothes and home textiles have on climate change, in line with the Paris Agreement and the UN Fashion Industry Charter for Climate Action.

14 September 2021 13:28

Northumbria University signs up to sustainable fashion pledge

Academics from Northumbria University have demonstrated their commitment to making the fashion and textile industries more sustainable after signing up to the Textiles 2030 voluntary agreement.

From left to right, actor Chris Connell, Associate Professor Steve Gilroy, actor Dave Johns, Dr Heike Pichler, actor Sharon Percy and actor Jackie Lye.

13 September 2021 10:54

Famous faces prepare to take to the stage to bring a research-based performance to life

Award-winning North-East actors have joined forces with academics to showcase stories of true Geordie grit – and the dialect used by the generation behind tales from post-war Tyneside.

Samidha Anand has been selected by the Women’s Engineering Society as one of the Top 50 Women in Engineering in 2021 as part of the annual Engineering Heroes (WE50) awards.

10 September 2021 10:17

Northumbria engineering graduate named as one of the top 50 women in the industry

Engineering may be a sector where women remain under-represented, but a Northumbria University graduate has been named in a list of the top 50 trailblazing females driving change and making an impact.

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