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  • UN Sustainable Development Chairman makes an impact at Northumbria

    Sir Mark Moody-Stuart, Chairman of the United Nations Global Compact Foundation – regarded as the world’s largest corporate sustainability initiative - has delivered a public lecture at Northumbria University, Newcastle, on how to make a global impact through sustainable development.

  • What it’s like growing up as a girl in the north of England

    Sarah Ralph, senior lecturer in Media and Cultural Studies at Northumbria University, Newcastle and Sarah Winkler-Reid, lecturer in Social Anthropology at Newcastle University discuss what it's like to be a girl living in the North.

  • Boot camp offers entrepreneur students STACKS of advice

    Independent retailers based in STACK, Newcastle’s shipping container village and creative hub, recently teamed up with Newcastle Business School to share their enterprise experiences with students on Northumbria University’s Entrepreneurial Business Management (EBM) programme.

  • LiFi research to revolutionise data downloads

    A new form of high speed wireless internet, which uses the lights in homes and offices to transmit data, could revolutionise the way we download and upload information in the future.

  • County lines: the dark realities of life for teenage drug runners

    Robert McLean, lecturer in Criminology at Northumbria University, Newcastle, along with Grace Robinson, PhD Candidate and Graduate Teaching Assistant at Edge Hill University and James Densley, Associate Professor of Criminal Justice at Metropolitan State University, discuss the life of teenage drug runners.

  • Top of the class for health and safety

    For the third time in four years, a Northumbria University, Newcastle student has been named one of the best in the UK for studies relating to occupational health and safety.

  • Northumbria subjects climb up the global rankings

    Northumbria University is seeing further improvements in its international profile, with four subject areas featuring in Times Higher Education’s world rankings for the first time.

  • Graduate surveyors demonstrate ‘high standards and integrity’

    Northumbria University is officially one of the top providers of new chartered surveyors in the UK. New figures show that 1 in every 14 new surveyors accredited with Membership of the Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors is a Northumbria graduate.

  • R-E-S-P-E-C-T. Find out what it means at the special event for Black History Month

    A Northumbria University academic is set to co-host a unique multi-media show at Gosforth Civic Theatre, Newcastle.
    Brian Ward, Professor in American Studies at Northumbria, whose book Martin Luther King in Newcastle upon Tyne underpinned last year’s Freedom City 2017 celebrations, has joined forces with Famous 4:15, one of the North East’s leading stage schools, to devise and present RESPECT 2

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