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Members of the multi-talented technical team in the Arts, Design and Social Sciences Faculty, will stage an exhibition of personal and professionally completed work to showcase their skills in the Foyer of CCE2.

23 November 2022 10:00

Exhibition will showcase the skills of Technicians

An event aimed at celebrating the unique contributions of technical support staff, and the diversity of the work they carry out across a range of subject areas at Northumbria University, will run throughout December.

Lisa Ternent (left) and Denise Crawford (right) with patient Sienna Steele, aged 10.

7 November 2022 15:00

Technician wins support from iconic fashion brand to help children in hospital

Denise Crawford, a sewing machinist by trade who works at Northumbria University’s School of Design, was inspired to start modifying t-shirts for children in Newcastle’s Royal Victoria Infirmary (RVI) when her grandson, Finnley, was undergoing chemotherapy treatment for a brain tumour at the hospital in 2020.

A region in Central Asia where ancestors would have migrated

21 October 2022 20:00

Central Asia identified as a key region for human ancestors

The interior of Central Asia has been identified as a key route for some of the earliest hominin migrations across Asia in a new study published in PLOS ONE today (Friday 21 October).

Fashion graduates Emily Gibson, Will Howard-Jones, Holly Hooker and Melissa Newton with Leo Fenwick (centre).

19 October 2022 11:01

Northumbria graduates showcase the future of fashion at Fenwick

As part of the campaign, Fenwick has partnered with the Graduate Fashion Foundation who organise Graduate Fashion Week, to showcase the work of fashion graduates from Northumbria University and Kingston University in London, as part of the Fenwick Future Makers element of the campaign.

Image taken from Design for Planet Festival 2021

17 October 2022 15:37

Full programme released for Design for Planet Festival 2022

The full line up of speakers and workshops for the Design Council’s Design for Planet Festival, to be hosted by Northumbria University, has now been confirmed.

The 2022 Design for Planet Festival will take place at Northumbria University on Tuesday 8th November and Wednesday 9th November, to coincide with COP27, providing a series of virtual events and live broadcasts.

8 September 2022 10:00

Registration is now open for the Design for Planet Festival at Northumbria

Biologist and wildlife film maker, Patrick Ayree, who worked for the BBC’s Natural History Unit alongside Sir David Attenborough, will host the Design Council’s Design for Planet Festival, due to take place at Northumbria University in November.

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.

Jonathan Birch was recognised in the Steel Appeal category of the RSA Student Design Awards, which looks at how we might apply circular economy principles to increase and encourage the re-use of steel from decommissioned oil platforms.

18 July 2022 11:22

Two Northumbria students highly commended in prestigious design awards

Students from Northumbria University have been hailed for their visionary work to highlight issues such as health inequalities and the sustainable re-use of steel in the world’s longest running awards scheme for design.

As the United Nations’ annual climate change conference, COP27, gets under way in Egypt in November, the Design Council will be preparing to bring together businesses and designers from across disciplines at Northumbria University.

14 July 2022 13:17

Northumbria to host award-winning Design for Planet festival

Northumbria University’s School of Design has been announced as the venue for this year’s Design for Planet festival, aimed at galvanising the design community to help tackle climate change.

Haydn Brown, who will graduate from the Fashion Communication programme this summer, won the Fashion Communication Portfolio Award.

12 July 2022 09:00

Four Northumbria students scoop awards at Graduate Fashion Week

With 26 talented Fashion students from Northumbria University making it on to the shortlist for awards, there were high hopes for success at this year’s Graduate Fashion Week.

The Summer 2022 edition of Northumbria University News is available to read online and on campus now.

22 June 2022 10:00

Northumbria’s Summer 2022 newspaper is out now

Packed with the latest news, features and interviews, the newspaper is the perfect way to keep up to date with the exciting developments taking place across the University.

20 June 2022 16:18

Students enjoy shortlist success as Graduate Fashion Week gets under way

Final year students from Northumbria University's three undergraduate Fashion programmes have impressed the judges at this year’s Graduate Fashion Foundation Awards, with 26 students shortlisted across 16 different categories.

The new report comes 80 years on from the publication of the historic Beveridge Report, which was influential in the founding of the welfare state in the United Kingdom.

19 May 2022 14:40

Basic income could cut poverty to its lowest level for decades

New research involving experts from Northumbria University proposes a new universal basic income model which could cut poverty by more than half at no net cost, reducing it to its lowest level for 60 years.

Some of the Northumbria staff and students with work included in Exhibition 140. L-R: Holly Oliver-Newman, Olivia Eplett, Senior Lecturers Emma Jane Goldsmith and Kristen Pickering, Sophie Dodds, Taima Castor and Emma Athroll.

25 March 2022 16:00

Anniversary exhibition celebrates fashion through the decades

The rich history of Newcastle’s flagship department store, Fenwick, has been brought to life in an exhibition supported by fashion educators and students from Northumbria University, in time for the store’s 140th anniversary.

21 February 2022 09:18

Haskap berries could hold the key to endurance runners’ success

A recently discovered edible berry has the potential to improve the performance of endurance runners by a potentially game-changing 2%, according to new research at Northumbria University.
The Haskap berry (botanical name Lonicera caerulea) is an edible blue honeysuckle native to the boreal forests and low-lying wet regions of northern hemisphere countries including Canada, Japan and Russia. Th

Cameron Poole, Sophie Clayton and Daniel Langhorn from size? are supporting Northumbria students with a live project.

17 February 2022 15:00

Global streetwear retailer provides real-world experience

A brand collaboration which has supported talented fashion students towards successfully securing jobs in the industry has been launched for the third year running at Northumbria University.

10 January 2022 12:51

EXPERT COMMENT: What happens when someone dies in space? Space tourism brings new legal and moral issues

In an article for The Conversation, Christopher Newman, Professor of Space Law and Policy, and Nick Caplan, Professor of Aerospace Medicine and Rehabilitation at Northumbria University, discuss the legal, cultural and environmental issues we will have to consider as space tourism come closer to reality.

Dr Julie Trueman from Northumbria University, Becky Gordon from Interface and design expert, Oliver Heath.

15 December 2021 15:41

Interior Design students work with global design expert

Final year Interior Design students at Northumbria University have been working on a live brief with global expert in biophilic design, Oliver Heath.

Gallery opening times for Chika Annen's Meta-Playground exhibition are 12.30pm-4.30pm Tuesday to Friday and 10am-2pm on Saturdays.

26 November 2021 11:00

Woon Art Prize winner launches solo exhibition

The winner of a prestigious art prize has launched an exhibition at Northumbria University.

Jasmine Bennett's graduating fashion design portfolio from 2019.

12 November 2021 09:00

Fashion forward: Northumbria celebrates 30 years of Graduate Fashion Week

While 2021 has heralded the return to the runway for in-person fashion shows internationally, it also marks the 30th anniversary of an event which has become one of the world’s most important sources of new talent for the global design industry.

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