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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.
Business Schools bring international conference to Newcastle
Press releases • Nov 25, 2019 10:38 GMT
Northumbria and Newcastle University Business Schools have jointly hosted a major international conference on entrepreneurial leadership.
Continents connected through new cultural collaboration
Press releases • Nov 22, 2019 16:05 GMT
Cultural and educational links between the UK and China have been strengthened following the announcement of a new partnership between a UK university and two Chinese cultural institutions.
A music degree designed for the 21st century
Press releases • Nov 22, 2019 12:28 GMT
A brand-new music degree, which will give aspiring musicians the skills they need to succeed, will launch at Northumbria University, in Newcastle upon Tyne, in September next year.
Northumbria recognised for supporting its researchers
Press releases • Nov 21, 2019 10:58 GMT
Northumbria University, Newcastle, has retained an international award for the supportive environment it provides for research-active academics.
New world record for Northumbria Paralympic swimmer
Press releases • Nov 19, 2019 17:00 GMT
Northumbria University swimmer and five times Paralympic medallist Taka Suzuki, has set a new world record in the S4 100m Freestyle Short Course.
The North East after Brexit
Press releases • Nov 18, 2019 11:03 GMT
A new book edited by Northumbria University academics has warned the North East is underprepared for the challenges it could face after Brexit.
Northumbria scientist embarks on ambitious mission to Antarctica’s Thwaites Glacier
Press releases • Nov 15, 2019 15:09 GMT
A Northumbria University researcher is one of almost 100 scientists and support staff who have travelled to Antarctica this week (15 November 2019) for the most ambitious mission to date for Thwaites Glacier in West Antarctica.
UK entrepreneurial expertise to benefit enterprising Ukrainian students
Press releases • Nov 15, 2019 13:03 GMT
A partnership between universities in the UK and Ukraine, which aims to support the young entrepreneurs of the future, has won funding through a prestigious British Council project.