Just two weeks left to apply for the Woon Prize 2018
Final year undergraduate artists from across the UK have until Tuesday 3 April to apply for one of the UK’s most generous arts prizes.
Britain’s history of migration to be explored in public lecture
While ‘Global Britain’ is a slogan cited often at the moment, people from the constituent nations of the UK have shown great wanderlust for centuries. During the nineteenth-century age of mass migration, migrants from the UK were - in their millions – going out into the world as adventurers, economic migrants and exiles.
EXPERT COMMENT: AI profiling: the social and moral hazards of ‘predictive’ policing
Mike Rowe, Professor of Criminology at Northumbria University, discusses the moral and ethical issues of police use of AI predictions.
Celebrating International Women’s Day in Peru
A Northumbria academic is helping celebrate International Women’s Day with a unique photography exhibition in Peru.
EXPERT COMMENT: Horrible Histories: bringing children an irreverent take on the past for 25 years
Professor of History at Northumbria University, Tom Lawson, discusses Horrible Histories for The Conversation.
Great Exhibition of the North programme announced
A cultural extravaganza will take place in Newcastle and Gateshead this summer, with staff and students from Northumbria University supporting the festival through a wide variety of events and activities.
Region’s charitable history explored in exhibition
An exhibition exploring the history and legacy of philanthropy in the North East is currently taking place in Newcastle.
Business support to spark innovation
Small businesses from the North-East are being invited to take part in fully-funded, action-packed creative workshops to gain a fresh perspective on opportunities and challenges, develop ideas for new products and services, and share experiences with other local businesses.
Northumbria helps celebrate Women’s 100 day
A series of innovative events are taking place across Newcastle to mark 100 years since women finally got the right to vote.
Criminologist explores dark side of The Archers
It is the longest running soap on British radio, billed as ‘an everyday story of country folk’ when it launched in 1951. Now an academic from Northumbria University is exploring the darker side of the BBC Radio 4 show The Archers by examining the role of criminals and crime within the long-running series.
Learn how ‘Geordies’ changed the world with new five-week online course
Where was the light bulb invented? What about the first steam locomotive, or hydroelectricity? Why have you never seen a canal in North-East England? Which was the only UK city outside London that Martin Luther King ever visited?
IRA and African connections explored during talk
Connections between the African National Congress and Sinn Fein will be explored during a free lecture by Northumbria University academic Dr Connal Parr this week.
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