Northumbria introduces key sports coaching qualification.
Northumbria University has been accredited to provide PE teachers, fitness professionals, and sports coaches with a nationally recognised vocational coaching qualification.
Assistant Professor and playwright is recognised at national theatre awards
Assistant Professor in Humanities at Northumbria University and award-winning playwright, May Sumbwanyambe, has won recognition from the UK Theatre Awards for his latest production Enough of Him.
Read the latest issue of Northumbria University News: Autumn 2023 edition
The Autumn 2023 edition of Northumbria University’s newspaper is available to collect on campus or read online now.
Climate change is ‘in our hands’
Pupils from a North East Primary School have collaborated with scientists to design a board game which allows young people to explore the issue of climate change and discuss the actions that can be taken in response to this global challenge.
Businesses encouraged to tap into Northumbria’s talent pool of overseas graduates
Recruiting international graduates is not always easy for small businesses - but they can plug crucial skills’ gaps and support the regional economy, according to Northumbria alumni and entrepreneur Mark Renney.
As founder and Managing Director of tech and software company Wubbleyou, Mark has been building his business since 2009. The Newcastle-based company specialises in building scalable so
Research investigating links between pubs and crime rates offers insights into better policing
Research led by a Northumbria academic exploring the relationship between the presence of pubs and crime rates across England and Wales has been published in European Planning Studies.
The study used data collected from 375 local authorities between 2003 and 2018, and looked in particular at the density of pubs at a localised level and the differences this made in the rates and types of crimes
EXPERT COMMENT: Remembrance Day: five beautiful novels about war commemoration
In an article written for the Conversation*, from Northumbria University, Dr Ann-Marie Einhaus, Associate Professor of Modern and Contemporary literature and Research Fellow Dr Alexandra Peat discuss recommendations for five novels that can give readers fresh insights into conflict and commemoration.
Impact of climate change on drylands to be examined with Royal Society award
A leading researcher has been awarded a prestigious Royal Society Fellowship worth over £1.4 million to study how dryland landscapes respond to a changing climate.
AI can map giant icebergs from satellite images 10,000 times faster than humans
Scientists have trained an artificial intelligence (AI) system to accurately map the surface area and outline of giant icebergs captured on satellite images in just one-hundredth of a second.
Researchers secure funds for brain health study on military veterans
A pioneering multi-disciplined team of researchers from Northumbria University and Imperial College London has received funding for a novel study that will explore biological, psychological and social factors associated with brain health in female military veterans.
New funding to help train the next generation of social scientists.
A training partnership, including Northumbria University, has secured an investment of over £28m in funding to continue training the next generation of social scientists in Northeast England and Northern Ireland.
The partnership will use these funds to continue playing a leading role in the economic and social development of the two regions.
The Northern Ireland and North East Doctoral Trai
EXPERT COMMENT: Our new map reveals the effects of 20th century land-use and climate change on Britain’s wild species
In an article written for The Conversation*, Andrew Suggitt, Assistant Professor in Geography and Environmental Sciences at Northumbria University, and Alistair Auffret, Senior Lecturer in Landscape Ecology at the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, discuss how making a new map of land-use change for Great Britain helped their research into the extinction crisis.
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