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More than a million listeners have already heard May Sumbwanyambe's work on BBC Radio 4 with his latest play, Back Home, highlighting the elephant ivory debate.

23 January 2023 09:55

Creative writing lecturer’s new play highlights elephant ivory debate

A Northumbria University lecturer, who is also an award-winning playwright and radio dramatist, is preparing for his latest play to be aired on BBC Radio 4.

Professor Kathryn Cassidy’s research will analyse responses to the displacement of people from Ukraine in three countries - Poland, Romania and the UK. Photo: Getty Images

19 January 2023 15:13

Professor chosen as one of 10 new Senior Fellows joining UK in a Changing Europe

New research focusing on responses to the displacement of people since the beginning of the 2022 invasion of Ukraine will be the focus of a prestigious fellowship awarded to a Northumbria University academic.

Academics and researchers from Northumbria University's Centre for International Development carry out leading research on volunteering, humanitarian crises and development.

5 December 2022 10:00

International Volunteer Day 2022

Today, Monday 5 December, is the United Nations’ (UN) International Volunteer Day 2022 (IVD 2022) and this year the theme is solidarity through volunteering. The campaign aims to highlight the power of using collective humanity to drive positive change through volunteerism.

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

14 November 2022 14:00

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.

Claire A Baker introduces 'The Red Thread' exhibition at the Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art (MIMA). Image credit: Craig McCann McMillan.

5 September 2022 10:00

Student research honouring Chernobyl self-settlers attracts award nomination

A talented PhD student whose research aims to understand and document the traditional skills and values of an aging community of people living in the Chernobyl exclusion zone, has been named as a finalist in the 2022 North East Culture Awards.

Two ‘sister quilts’ have been created in Newcastle and Istanbul featuring symbols, words and shapes inspired by resistance against poverty, threats to women’s safety and the rupturing of traditional gender roles.

25 August 2022 10:00

Technology and traditional craft combine to highlight women’s safety

An intercontinental project by a Northumbria University researcher is using traditional crafting techniques and the latest technology to explore the international issue of women’s safety.

Participatory workshops with volunteers and community representatives featured in the research collaboration with VSO.

10 June 2022 10:06

New research is first-ever study on "blended volunteering"

Running projects without international volunteers will not help “decolonise development”, according to new collaborative research by international development charity Voluntary Service Overseas (VSO), and Northumbria University.

The Pantheon in Paris by Nikitin Mikhail (Shutterstock).

30 November 2021 14:18

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.

23 December 2016 10:31

EXPERT COMMENT: Three radical political experiments for a new age of extremes

Michael Patrick Cullinane, Reader in US History at Northumbria, writes about political extremes for The Conversation.
Historian Eric Hobsbawm famously called the 20th century an “age of extremes”, one characterised by polarising ideological battles fought in the name of nationalism. Whether fascism, communism, or Western capitalism, Hobsbawm related how these ideologies transformed the politica

17 November 2016 12:26

EXPERT COMMENT: Can King’s vision overcome Trump’s vitriol?

Brian Ward, Professor in American Studies in the Department of Humanities at Northumbria, writes about Martin Luther King Jr and Donald Trump for The Fabian Society.

10 November 2016 16:19

EXPERT COMMENT: “A new reality of uncertainty and anxiety”: Reactions to the 2016 US Election

Dr Randall J Stephens, Reader and Associate Professor of History and American Studies, gives his views on Donald Trump’s shock US Election victory.

8 November 2016 12:51

EXPERT COMMENT: Report from Florida: voter fatigue meets campaign frenzy

Brian Ward, Professor in American Studies in Department of Humanities at Northumbria writes about the campaigns for the US elections.

29 September 2016 15:56

Law expert to discuss impact of the self-declared Islamic State at world-leading conference

An expert in Islamic Law from Northumbria University will discuss the so-called Islamic State (ISIS/IS/Daesh) and the humanitarian issues arising from the conflicts in Syria and Iraq at an international conference this week.

Subjects: International