Subjects: Culture

The Crypt at Newcastle Cathedral will host the Story Chair in September.

Pioneering North East programme ready for national launch

Story Chair - a collaboration between national charity Changing Lives and Northumbria University - has been facilitated over the last 12 months and involved more than 50 women across Newcastle, Ashington, North Tyneside and Sunderland taking part in an eight-week programme.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Global Scotland in the age of Brexit

Global Scotland in the age of Brexit

With Brexit now looming, Northumbria University’s Professor Tanja Bueltmann will explore Scotland’s past and future as a global nation in her lecture Global Scotland in the Age of Brexit: Historical perspectives on the Scottish diaspora and migration.

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