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  • Members of the multi-talented technical team in the Arts, Design and Social Sciences Faculty, will stage an exhibition of personal and professionally completed work to showcase their skills in the Foyer of CCE2.

    Exhibition will showcase the skills of Technicians

    An event aimed at celebrating the unique contributions of technical support staff, and the diversity of the work they carry out across a range of subject areas at Northumbria University, will run throughout December.

  • Northumbria named as UK’s best university

    Northumbria named as UK’s best university

    Northumbria University, Newcastle, has today been named University of the Year 2022 in the prestigious Times Higher Education (THE) Awards.
    The THE Awards are widely recognised as the 'Oscars of higher education'. The impressive win recognises exceptional performance, as well as bold, imaginative and innovative initiatives that have advanced a Higher Education institution’s reputation during t

  • Northumbria expertise informs UK space spectrum strategy

    Northumbria expertise informs UK space spectrum strategy

    Northumbria University expertise in space law is helping to shape the UK Government strategy for managing radio communications used by the space sector. This strategy informs how satellites use the radio frequency spectrum and how Ofcom manage and regulate the spectrum for efficiency.
    UK communications industry regulator Ofcom recently announced its Space Spectrum Strategy, aimed at ensuring t

  • Participants of the RECLAMA project highlighted food and gastronomy as a key aspect of their cultural heritage to celebrate.

    Research documents rich heritage of Afro-descendant women living in Ecuador

    Celebrating and sharing the lived history of Afro-Ecuadorian women, passed down through generations via the spoken word, is the objective of a collaborative research project led by Northumbria University and Universidad San Francisco de Quito in Ecuador, alongside partners from the Mujeres de Asfalto collective, a Black feminist creative arts organisation.

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    Chronic jet lag discovered in people living with HIV

    People living with HIV have a significantly delayed internal body clock, consistent with the symptoms of jet lag, according to new findings reported by researchers from universities in South Africa and the UK.

  • Lisa Ternent (left) and Denise Crawford (right) with patient Sienna Steele, aged 10.

    Technician wins support from iconic fashion brand to help children in hospital

    Denise Crawford, a sewing machinist by trade who works at Northumbria University’s School of Design, was inspired to start modifying t-shirts for children in Newcastle’s Royal Victoria Infirmary (RVI) when her grandson, Finnley, was undergoing chemotherapy treatment for a brain tumour at the hospital in 2020.

  • Architecture past, present, and future explored in double book publication

    Architecture past, present, and future explored in double book publication

    Two books – one exploring homes over the past 400 years, the other the future of cities – have been published by architecture academics from Northumbria University.
    Professor Ruth Dalton’s new book, Living in Houses, is a personal history of English domestic architecture in which she explores nine of the homes she has lived in throughout her life. The properties range from a Leicestershire cott

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