Innovative festival reveals the facts behind crime fiction
A festival for crime fiction writers and readers offers its audience a rare insight into the fascinating world of real-life criminal investigation.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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?
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Memories brought to life in city arts project
Northumbria University has received a £60,000 grant to help develop new ways for people to share and access heritage and memories of significant events in Newcastle city centre.
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Two weeks left to enter Northern Writers’ Awards
Writers from across the North of England have just two weeks left to enter this year’s Northern Writers’ Awards.
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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.
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Woon prize winner opens first solo exhibition
The 2017 winner of one of the art world’s most generous awards is to launch her first solo exhibition next month.
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Humanities celebrated at Northumbria with Institute launch
Northumbria University, Newcastle is celebrating the multidisciplinary achievements taking place within its humanities subjects and, more widely across the University, with the launch of its Institute of Humanities.
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Top title for Northumbria graduate at Midlands fashion design awards
Northumbria University Fashion Design graduate Harriet Eccleston has been crowned Young Designer of the Year at the 10th annual Midlands Fashion Awards.
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Northumbria Professor leads design debate
Northumbria University’s Pro Vice-Chancellor (Business and Enterprise) Professor Steven Kyffin has been invited to give the opening talk at TEDx Eindhoven, a prestigious technology and design conference in The Netherlands.
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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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Join Bram Stoker’s great grand-nephew for a literary fright night at Northumbria
Dacre Stoker, the best-selling co-author of Dracula the Un-Dead, the official Stoker family endorsed sequel to Dracula is set to appear at Northumbria University next week.
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EXPERT COMMENT: Fats Domino: rock'n'rolls quiet rebel who defied US segregation
Professor in American Studies, Brian Ward, writes about the life of Rock'n'roll trailblazer Antoine “Fats” Domino for The Conversation.
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Irish law change thanks to Northumbria director’s film
A film tackling issues around sex and disability has played an important role in changing the law in Ireland.
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North East girls in the spotlight: Girl-Kind event explores growing up as a girl in the region
Girls and women in the North East are being invited to take part in a unique project exploring what it means to be female growing up in the region.
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Internationally renowned art academic Andrea Phillips is the new BALTIC Professor at Northumbria University, Newcastle
Northumbria University and BALTIC Centre of Contemporary Art are excited and proud to announce the appointment of a new BALTIC Professor and Director of the BxNU research institute.
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Woon Fellowship winner reveals year’s work with new exhibition
An exhibition of work by the winner of the 2016-17 Woon Foundation Painting and Sculpture prize opens to the public this week.
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Historic discoveries lead to Northumbria academic curating Martin Luther King exhibition
Martin Luther King’s handkerchief is one of the centrepieces of a new exhibition, curated by Northumbria University’s Professor in American Studies Brian Ward.
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