Subjects: Culture

Street sign with the inscription Ukrainian Independence Street in the center of Riga. Shutterstock

EXPERT COMMENT: Ukrainian Heroes Street: the ideology behind street name changes

When a new regime comes to power, it usually asserts its symbolic control over public space by renaming streets that referred to the values and heroes of its predecessors.

Thanks to a grant from UK Aid, academics from Northumbria University have spent time working with environmentalists and the local community close to the northern coast of Kenya, to help establish a new Heritage Boat Building Training Centre.

Heritage boat building will support mission to reduce plastic pollution

Academics from Northumbria University have travelled to Kenya to help establish a new Heritage Boat Building Training Centre which will use indigenous knowledge and skills to transform single use plastics into traditional sailing vessels.

The Pantheon in Paris by Nikitin Mikhail (Shutterstock).

EXPERT COMMENT: Josephine Baker: what it means to enter France’s hallowed Panthéon

As Josephine Baker is honoured as a national hero in France, Dr Laura O'Brien, Senior Lecturer in Modern European History at Northumbria University, provides expert commentary on the Panthéonisation process and its origins.

The Death Positive Library Project unites libraries in Newcastle, Kirklees in Yorkshire and Redbridge in London, with a research team from Northumbria University.

Northumbria research team celebrate library project award win

A collaborative research project which promotes libraries as compassionate spaces to support conversations around death, dying and bereavement, has been recognised with a national health and wellbeing award.

The Deep Discoveries project was launched to explore ways of creating a computer vision search platform that can identify and match images across digitised collections on a national scale. © The National Archives, V&A, and RGBE

Design meets artificial intelligence to create new visual search engine

Novel methods of searching the nation’s gallery, library and museum collections could soon be revolutionised by a visual search platform designed in collaboration with Northumbria University.

From left to right, actor Chris Connell, Associate Professor Steve Gilroy, actor Dave Johns, Dr Heike Pichler, actor Sharon Percy and actor Jackie Lye.

Famous faces prepare to take to the stage to bring a research-based performance to life

Award-winning North-East actors have joined forces with academics to showcase stories of true Geordie grit – and the dialect used by the generation behind tales from post-war Tyneside.

Northumbria University PhD researcher Shaun Cutler hands over the Cathedrals Cycle Route relay baton to The Revd Canon Clare MacLaren outside Newcastle Cathedral.

Research project results in new national cycle route

A Northumbria University academic has designed a 2,000-mile cycle route linking all 42 of England’s cathedrals as part of a PhD project researching how historic places of worship can establish sustainable futures.

What Northern Culture needs to rebuild, rebalance and recover: ‘First of its kind’ Northern Culture Parliamentary Inquiry launched

What Northern Culture needs to rebuild, rebalance and recover: ‘First of its kind’ Northern Culture Parliamentary Inquiry launched

The Northern Culture All Party Parliamentary Group, supported by Northumbria University, will launch its first Inquiry into what Northern Culture needs to rebuild, rebalance and recover.

Northumbria University is a regional hub for the new National Centre for Academic and Cultural Exchange (NCACE)

Northumbria to support National Centre for Academic and Cultural Exchange

Northumbria University is to play a key role in a new National Centre designed to support knowledge exchange between higher education institutions and the UK’s arts and culture sector.

Northumbria University unveils Being Human festival events

Northumbria University unveils Being Human festival events

Academics from Northumbria University are once again taking part in the national Being Human festival – hosting a variety of free online events which celebrate the humanities and all they have to offer.

Image by Eva Jew, commissioned as part of research by Professor Katy Shaw into representations of menopause in popular culture.

EXPERT COMMENT - World Menopause Day: how cultural representations of ‘the change’ are empowering women

Ahead of World Menopause Day on Sunday 18 October, Katy Shaw, Professor of Contemporary Writings at Northumbria University, discusses the important role popular culture is playing in changing perceptions of the menopause.

Professor Brian Ward has researched and written about Martin Luther King Jr.'s visit to Newcastle

Martin Luther King’s Newcastle visit remembered on anniversary of his birth

School children in London will mark Martin Luther King Jr. Day by learning about the UK’s connections with the US civil rights activist, thanks to a visit by a US history expert from Northumbria University.

Pieces from the Woon Gallery of Asian Art, at Northumbria's University Gallery

Continents connected through new cultural collaboration

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.

Bethlehem with settlements (Photo credit: Mark Griffiths)

Growing up in conflict – project explores experiences of young people in Occupied Palestinian Territories

The experiences of young people growing up amid conflict and crisis will be explored during a new project between Northumbria University, in Newcastle and An-Najah University in the Occupied Palestine Territories.

The Girl-Kind North East event takes place this Saturday (photo credit: Iain Garret)

Growing up girl in the North East: Girl-Kind event 2018 gives platform for girls to voice their experiences

More than 120 schoolgirls from across the North East will be attending an annual event this weekend highlighting the diversity of girls’ experiences in the region and giving them a chance to let people know what they’re thinking.

Pieces from the new Woon Gallery of Asian Art at Northumbria University, Newcastle

Warhol, Hirst, and Picasso come to Northumbria

The University Gallery has reopened at Northumbria’s City Campus with a special event, which saw the unveiling of the new Woon Gallery of Asian Art and the announcement of this year’s Woon Art Prize winner.

The UK’s greatest event of 2018 is here

The UK’s greatest event of 2018 is here

If you thought the Royal Wedding was big then you haven’t seen anything yet! The Great Exhibition of the North launches at 1pm today, Friday 22 June – and Northumbria University is at the heart of the action.

Learn how ‘Geordies’ changed the world with new five-week online course

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?

Gladis Chilon Gutierrez/Women, Mining and Photography Project 2017

EXPERT COMMENT: Peruvian women reflect on mining and development in the Andes

Katy Jenkins, Associate Professor of International Development and Co-Director of the Centre for International Development at Northumbria University, writes in Discover Society about her sociological photography project.

Northumbria to showcase its human side as national festival comes to Newcastle

Northumbria to showcase its human side as national festival comes to Newcastle

Hidden histories and recovered cultures will be explored as Northumbria celebrates Being Human 2017 this month.

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