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  • Controlling portions at the sauce

    A Northumbria University student has designed a product to help people control their food portions more easily.

  • Calling inspirational photographers

    Budding photographers still have time to enter their inspirational images of the North East to a Northumbria University competition.

  • Design with a difference

    Design graduates and designers will be encouraged to think about the difference design can make at a Northumbria University event this month.

  • The struggle for Newcastle

    Newcastle city centre is the setting for a political drama that pits rich against poor, in a play written and directed by Northumbria University academics.

  • Design students collaborate with industry innovators

    A homecare medication box that senses and reminds the user when it is time to take their medicine, electronic sensors embedded in containers that detect whether home-cooked food is safe to eat, and counterfeit-detecting smartcards are just some of the commercial uses that Northumbria students have designed for a new technology called printable electronics.

  • Managing an ageing prison population

    Identifying and addressing the physical, mental health and social care needs of ageing prisoners is vital to improve the UK’s prison service, say Northumbria criminologists.

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