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Exercise can reduce side effects of prostate cancer hormone therapy
Press releases • Jan 06, 2020 15:16 GMT
A leading expert in how exercise can help improve quality of life for cancer patients and survivors has published his latest research showing the benefits exercise can bring to men with advanced prostate cancer.
Royal recognition for Professor Jane Core
Press releases • Dec 20, 2019 11:29 GMT
Professor Jane Core, former Director of Student and Library Services at Northumbria has this week collected an MBE from Prince William, Duke of Cambridge for her outstanding services to Higher Education.
X-ray in a manger - centuries old nativity discovered during painting investigation
Press releases • Dec 19, 2019 06:00 GMT
Art experts have experienced something of a Christmas miracle after discovering what could be a 16th century painting of a nativity scene hidden under another work of art.
Design graduate shortlisted for national art prize
Press releases • Dec 18, 2019 09:41 GMT
Northumbria University graduate Jessica Slack has been shortlisted for the Signature Art Prize 2019/20 for her painting, Finding Life’s Joy.
Northumbria University appoints Chair-elect
Press releases • Dec 17, 2019 13:56 GMT
Northumbria University, Newcastle, has today announced the appointment of Roberta Blackman-Woods as the Chair-elect of its Board of Governors.
Hats off and festive cheer to pioneering new graduates
Press releases • Dec 17, 2019 10:40 GMT
A new university campus offering innovative and flexible study opportunities in the Netherlands has just seen its first cohort of students graduate with internationally recognised degrees.
Petje af en felicitaties voor pionierende afgestudeerden
Press releases • Dec 17, 2019 10:12 GMT
Een nieuwe universiteitscampus die innovatieve en flexibele studiemogelijkheden biedt in Nederland heeft net zijn eerste cohort studenten met een internationaal erkende graad zien afstuderen.
Expert evidence given in face of modern policing debate
Press releases • Dec 16, 2019 12:22 GMT
A Northumbria University criminologist has contributed expert evidence to a debate around the use of facial recognition technology in policing.
Designing the future of Armenian education
Press releases • Dec 12, 2019 11:09 GMT
Design and business experts from Northumbria University are playing a key role in exploring the development of higher education and entrepreneurialism in Armenia.
EXPERT COMMENT: A mobile phone for Christmas doesn’t mean less family time for teenagers
Press releases • Dec 11, 2019 12:32 GMT
Genavee Brown, Lecturer in Psychology at Northumbria University, discusses the positive impact mobile phones can have on the lives of teenagers.
Transforming care through workforce development
Press releases • Dec 11, 2019 12:30 GMT
Northumbria University’s first cohort of students to study on the Transforming Care-commissioned Positive Behavioural Support programmes have graduated.
Sport to promote economic and social development in Zambia
Press releases • Dec 05, 2019 12:15 GMT
A cohort of five students and staff from Northumbria University will visit Zambia next summer to take part in the Volunteer Zambia programme, an initiative that Northumbria has played a significant role in over the last 15 years.
Survey set to reveal impact of settled status process on EU citizens in the UK
Press releases • Dec 04, 2019 11:07 GMT
The process that EU, EEA and Swiss citizens living in the UK have to go through to apply for ‘settled status’ and the impact this is having on them will be uncovered following the launch of a new online survey.
Building industry links through engineering partnership
Press releases • Dec 03, 2019 10:35 GMT
Northumbria University has become an academic partner of the Institution of Civil Engineers (ICE), the UK’s leading civil engineering professional body.
Law student essay has the write stuff
Press releases • Dec 02, 2019 11:01 GMT
An essay-writing competition run by Newcastle Law Society has been won by a Northumbria student with a moving and personal account of how a solicitor helped her family.
First evidence that Antarctica's thinning ice shelves are causing more ice to move from the land into the sea
Press releases • Dec 02, 2019 08:00 GMT
Researchers have produced the first physics-based quantifiable evidence that thinning ice shelves in Antarctica are causing more ice to flow from the land into the ocean. Their findings have been published in Geophysical Research Letters.
Pioneering law clinic wins Green Gown Award
Press releases • Nov 28, 2019 13:47 GMT
Northumbria University, Newcastle, has won a highly prestigious Green Gown Award UK & Ireland for the transformational work of its Student Law Office.
Northumbria University Animation expert brings imagination of children to life
Press releases • Nov 27, 2019 08:53 GMT
An animation expert from Northumbria University is helping young people across the North East bring their inventions to life – with the aim of tackling climate change.
Secrets of Lucretia painting closer to being revealed
Press releases • Nov 26, 2019 09:58 GMT
The mystery of who painted a centuries-old artwork, and when, is closer to being revealed thanks to the work of art conservation and forensic science experts from Northumbria University, in Newcastle upon Tyne.
Students through to cyber-crime competition final
Press releases • Nov 25, 2019 15:10 GMT
A team of Northumbria University Computing students have qualified to compete in the Cyber Crime Cup 2019 final today, which is organised by British Computer Society.