Topics: Corona

The study showed that care workers who had undertaken PFA training coped better.

Psychological First Aid training could help improve care workers’ wellbeing

A new study has shown that Psychological First Aid, training originally created for people to support others, can help healthcare workers in care homes improve their own mental wellbeing.

A photo taken during Dr Duggan and Dr Andrews' research in New Orleans: School buses carrying Mardi Gras krewes in New Orleans (2022). Photo credit: Dr Patrick Duggan

Arts research inspires new approaches to emergency planning

As the UK Covid-19 inquiry gets underway and the country’s pandemic preparedness is examined, new performance research is making a significant impact on the future of emergency planning in the UK and beyond.

PBM-Hale™ is a hand-held aerosol collecting device that allows sampling of the lung in a non-invasive way - by patients simply breathing into it.

Breathing new life into disease diagnosis

New research shows 100 per cent effectiveness of an innovative breath sampling device developed by Northumbria University medtech spinout, PulmoBioMed, that could revolutionise diagnosis of a range of diseases, including COVID-19.

Sharing what you believe about vaccines could be a very simple way of dispelling vaccine hesitancy in others.

EXPERT COMMENT: How to dissuade parents from believing in anti-vaxxer conspiracy theories

New research carried out by a team of psychologists has found that sharing what you believe about vaccines could be a very simple way of dispelling vaccine hesitancy in others. In an article written for The Conversation, the academics share their research and its findings.

The social intervention approach was shown to reduce participants' conspiracy beliefs and increase their intentions to vaccinate their children.

Belief in anti-vaccination conspiracies can be cut by correcting misperceptions of what others believe – new study

Belief in anti-vaccination conspiracy theories can be reduced by correcting misperceptions of what other people believe, according to psychologists who have examined the impact of a new social intervention approach.

EXPERT COMMENT: COVID: how worried should we be about the new AY.4.2 lineage of the coronavirus?

EXPERT COMMENT: COVID: how worried should we be about the new AY.4.2 lineage of the coronavirus?

Following the growth of a new Covid-19 variant in the UK, Dr Matthew Bashton and Professor Darren Smith from Northumbria University's Department of Applied Sciences, explore the growth of the variant in various European nations and the need for further genomic surveillance of the coronavirus.

What was once familiar and enjoyable could suddenly become strange and unpleasant.

EXPERT COMMENT: Covid smell loss can have profound effects on your life, from weight change to intimacy barriers

Recent in-depth qualitative research from a team of altered eating and altered smell specialists documents the impact of persistent alterations to taste and smell following Covid-19 infection. Writing for The Conversation, Professor Vincent Deary of Northumbria University, and Dr Duika Burges Watson of Newcastle University, discuss the team's findings, highlighting how Covid smell loss can have

From looking at food through to thinking about mental health, public health research is wide-ranging

Fuse named in 25 million funded School for Public Health Research refresh

Academics at Northumbria University will continue to be part of a prestigious collaboration bringing together England’s leading public health research expertise.

'Rainbow’s End', by Zoe Allen and Allan Dixon, BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art, August 2021. Image by Dr Stuart Andrews.

Design of the times: research reveals how the arts can offer vital new approaches to cities’ emergency preparedness and resilience planning

A new report demonstrates ways in which arts practice and performance research methods can provide vital new approaches to city pandemic planning, both in the context of Covid-19 and for future crises.

The team will develop a computer program to screen mutations for potentially increased transmission and potential immune escape

An ‘early warning system’ for Covid-19 variants

Northumbria University is set to develop new methods for detecting Covid-19 ‘Variants of Concern’ and identifying potential ‘Variants of Interest’ following new funding from the national genome sequencing consortium, COG-UK.

There is a need to better understand what people require at the end of their lives

Vital research for end-of-life care

Academics at Northumbria University, Newcastle, are evaluating Rapid Response Services to improve end-of-life care in new research funded by Marie Curie.

Care workers have been at the forefront of battling Covid-19

Can Psychological First Aid help improve care workers’ wellbeing?

Academics at Northumbria University, Newcastle, and the University of Highlands and Islands, Scotland, are investigating Psychological First Aid training as a tool to support care workers’ wellbeing amid the Covid-19 pandemic.

Previous research has revealed concerns around the suitability of current remote healthcare.

New funding for research into remote healthcare for eating disorders during the Covid-19 pandemic and beyond

Northumbria University health and cyber psychologist Dr Dawn Branley-Bell has been awarded a Medical Research Foundation Fellowship – one of four projects supported by £1.1 million of new funding to tackle eating disorders and self-harm.

Promoting Covid-19 preventive behaviours in Guatemala

‘Languageless’ public health messaging to fight the pandemic

Academics from Northumbria University, Newcastle, have developed public health messaging materials with a difference to overcome communication challenges in Guatemala.

Since joining the consortium, Northumbria University has sequenced over 11,000 SARS-CoV-2 genomes.

Mapping Covid-19 – one year on

Over the last year, academics from Northumbria University have been working with partners in the Covid-19 Genomics UK (COG-UK) Consortium to map how COVID-19 spreads and evolves.

PBM-HALETM (left) is currently being evaluated in European hospitals to demonstrate where aerosolised virus arises from in infected individuals. PulmoBioMed are working to reduce the product into a lipstick-sized device (concept version on the right)

New Northumbria University spinout - PulmoBioMed - to develop world-leading medical device

Scientists at Northumbria University have worked with the institution’s Research and Innovation Services to launch a medtech spinout company whose lead product for collecting breath samples could revolutionise diagnosis of a range of diseases, including Covid-19.

The news is part of our daily lives

EXPERT COMMENT: Six tips for coping when the news is getting to you

In an article written for The Conversation, Dr Dawn Branley-Bell, Chartered Psychologist and Research Fellow in Psychology at Northumbria University, shares some tips of what we can do to look after ourselves if we feel overwhelmed or 'triggered' by news stories.

Online diary helps NHS and care staff monitor changes in wellbeing and get support

Online diary helps NHS and care staff monitor changes in wellbeing and get support

A new online diary has been developed to help health and care staff monitor changes in their wellbeing during the pandemic and signposts where individuals can access help when it is needed.

Northumbria’s Spring 2021 Newspaper has landed!

Northumbria’s Spring 2021 Newspaper has landed!

Our Spring 2021 newspaper is available to read online now.

Artist’s impression of The OME by Assia Stefanova

Work begins on experimental Living Building

Construction has started on a building which could transform the way we live.

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