Subjects: Science, technology

Northern Accelerator programme leads

Multi-million pound boost for North East company creation

Having launched an impressive 34 businesses to date, North East university collaboration Northern Accelerator has been awarded a further £3.6m from Research England to continue its successful programme, expanding its partnership in the North East and rolling out its flagship support model to universities in the South of England.

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.

Northumbria University launches new Skills Bootcamps to connect people into employment in construction

Northumbria University launches new Skills Bootcamps to connect people into employment in construction

The Institute of Coding (IoC) is a collaborative national consortium of industry, educators and outreach providers that are working together to respond to the UK’s digital skills gap through the delivery of employer-led digital skills education.

Northumbria to lead research aimed at future-proofing the security of home technology devices

Northumbria to lead research aimed at future-proofing the security of home technology devices

Research investigating the potential digital harms posed by household data sharing technologies has won a share of a major £3.6m award scheme.

Credit: ESA/NASA/Yao/Dunn

Mystery behind Jupiter’s stunning ‘X-ray light shows’ finally explained

The 40-year mystery behind the cause of Jupiter’s spectacular natural light displays has finally been explained thanks to research by a team of international physicists, including Northumbria University’s Professor Jonathan Rae.

Professor John Dean

Exceptional service medal recognises voluntary work of Northumbria Professor

The Royal Society of Chemistry has bestowed a second major honour on a Northumbria University academic.Just 12 months after the Royal Society of Chemistry honoured Professor John Dean with an Inspirational Member Award, his outstanding service to the Society has won further recognition.Professor Dean, of the Department of Applied Sciences, has now been awarded the Royal Society of Chemistry’s Awar

Northumbria brings Antarctica’s unseen world to the screen

Northumbria brings Antarctica’s unseen world to the screen

A virtual performance exploring beneath Antarctica’s frozen surface will take place this month, combining scientific research from Northumbria University with poetry and electronic music.

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.

A Yellow-eyed penguin with her chick

Protecting endangered, Yellow-eyed penguins from fatal infections

A team of researchers, led by Northumbria University, have been working to understand and develop a vaccine for an infection that’s been killing off rare penguins in New Zealand. Yellow-eyed penguins, locally known as hoiho (Māori name), are one of the world’s rarest species. They are native to New Zealand and its outlying islands. Hoiho breeding pairs have been rapidly declining for over two deca

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.

New research to provide safer and more accurate space weather predictions

New research to provide safer and more accurate space weather predictions

A team of space weather experts from Northumbria University has been awarded more than £400,000 to explore how to better predict the conditions in near-Earth space.

Supporting a diverse future for engineering

Supporting a diverse future for engineering

Northumbria University’s NUSTEM initiative is supporting global engineering companies, including Airbus, BP and Nissan, to develop the engineering workforce of the future by engaging more effectively with young people from diverse backgrounds.

Professor Ian Mann

UN space weather expert to join Northumbria University as Royal Society Wolfson Visiting Fellow

A leading physicist and Chair of the United Nations space weather expert group is to join Northumbria University for one year after being awarded a Royal Society Wolfson Visiting Fellowship.

Part of the image created by the research team which featured on the front cover of Biophysical Journal (volume 120, issue 5).

Investigating protein dynamics: research breakthrough could result in new cancer treatments

Researchers from Northumbria University in Newcastle, and Bogazici University in Turkey, have discovered a new way of examining the structure and dynamics of single protein molecules within the human body – which could help scientists better understand the progression and possible treatment of diseases such as cancer.

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.

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.

Our route to high-performance and scalable solar cells (right) is through understanding the relationship of solution-processing to the atomic-structural ordering and optoelectronic properties of the semiconducting-materials (left).

New technology could see solar panels integrated into windows and cladding

A team of researchers, including renewable energy experts from Northumbria University, has received significant funding to revolutionise the fabrication and application of photovoltaic devices used to produce solar energy.

It is hoped that the antiviral coating could be used on high-contact surfaces such as handrails on public transport, hospital trolleys or shop till-points.

INNOVATIVE ANTIVIRAL COATING TO REDUCE SPREAD OF COVID-19

Academics at Northumbria University, Newcastle, have been backed by the Government’s Defence and Security Accelerator (DASA) to develop an antiviral coating suitable for use on everyday surfaces.

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