Subjects: Studies and reports

Northumbria University’s Social Mobility Impact Report demonstrates best practice initiatives and programmes that the University is undertaking to spread opportunity.

Northumbria University launches Social Mobility Impact Report

Northumbria University has launched a new report that sets out its social impact and identifies where it is spreading opportunity to those who need it most.

Professor Alister Scott

Geography Professor appointed as special adviser to Select Committee

One of the UK’s leading experts on nature and sustainable land use has been appointed as the sole special adviser to the House of Lords Select Committee investigating land use in England. Professor Alister Scott of Northumbria University will provide the Select Committee with specialist advice over the structure and content of the inquiry, which is due to report at the end of this year.

The results of the study will be used to help inform local plans and to address inequalities caused by digital exclusion.

Collaborative research to help plan North Tyneside’s digital future

Academics at Northumbria University are leading a study which is investigating how residents across North Tyneside access and use digital technology – and where there are barriers to its take-up. The results will help to shape the development of future services within the borough, from healthcare and housing to education and digital infrastructure.

Anxiety and neuroticism linked to ability to experience ASMR

Anxiety and neuroticism linked to ability to experience ASMR

New research from Northumbria University suggests a link between personality traits and the ability to experience the relaxing sensory phenomenon known as ASMR. The findings also show that it reduces anxiety in those who experience the sensation.

Civil War Bluejackets

Research on US Civil War sailors to create a treasure-chest for genealogists and social historians

The lives and experiences of immigrant and African American sailors during the American Civil War are set to be uncovered in a £685,000 study being led by Northumbria University, Newcastle.
Project Civil War Bluejackets: Race, Class and Ethnicity in the United States Navy, 1861-1865 is being led by Professor David Gleeson from Northumbria, in collaboration with the University of Sheffield Info

A focus group discussion in Tanzania during 2021, one of many which have helped inform the research project between Northumbria University and Voluntary Service Overseas. Photo by Egidius Kamanyi.

Volunteering Together: Blending knowledge and skills for development

As we approach International Volunteer Day on 5 December, academics from Northumbria University have prepared a briefing paper, which will be the first in a series, to highlight key findings from a collaborative research project between Northumbria and Voluntary Service Overseas (VSO).

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.

The study is the first-of-its-kind, exploring the impact of death in military service on surviving family members.

The knock on the door that military families never forget

As we remember and honour the fallen through remembrance traditions, new research from academics at Northumbria University has revealed the true experiences of bereaved military families, following a first-of-its-kind study exploring the impact of death in military service on surviving family members.

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

'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.

shutterstock_605472758

Innovative partnership to develop game-changing manufacturing solutions

A collaborative research project driven by The NBT Group, Northumbria University and Senseye has been awarded over a quarter of a million pounds to evaluate new and emerging 'smart' technologies, helping to digitalise and transform manufacturing supply chains.

Destroyed Tapovan Vishnugad hydroelectric plant after devastating debris flow of Feb 7, 2021. Photo: Irfan Rashid, Department of Geoinformatics, University of Kashmir.

Scientists determine cause of devastating Indian flood

A Northumbria University geomorphologist is among a team of international scientists to investigate the cause of the Uttarakhand flood in India earlier this year, which left more than 200 people dead or missing.

Calling for an end to torture and inhumane interrogation techniques

Calling for an end to torture and inhumane interrogation techniques

A Northumbria University Forensic Psychologist has contributed to an expert report, due to go before the United Nations later this year, setting out how torture is used during interrogations around the world and recommending the adoption of alternative, humane techniques.

Playing with thin dolls may affect young girls’ body image

Playing with thin dolls may affect young girls’ body image

Playing with ultra-thin dolls could make young girls want a thinner body, according to new research published today (11 March 2021).

The partnership between Northumbria’s Northern Hub for Veterans and Military Families Research and Fighting with Pride is the first of its kind in the UK. (Shutterstock: 1506427451)

STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIP TO REVOLUTIONISE SUPPORT FOR LGBT+ VETERANS

Northumbria University and Fighting With Pride - The LGBT+ Armed Forces Charity – have signed a Memorandum of Understanding with a shared mission of transforming support for LGBT+ Veterans.

Early recognition of deterioration in health can save lives

Research with life-saving potential for adults with learning disabilities and autism

​A research team at Northumbria University have launched a major project exploring how carers recognise and manage deterioration in the health of people with learning disabilities and autism.

Academics are seeking those who have had a problem sleeping recently as well as 'good sleepers' to take part in the study

Sleep research programme to offer free treatment to those suffering with disturbed sleep amid the pandemic

Those experiencing poor sleep during the COVID-19 pandemic are being invited to take part in an online treatment study run by sleep experts at Northumbria University.

Fashion industry’s hidden environmental timebomb revealed

Fashion industry’s hidden environmental timebomb revealed

The devastating environmental impact of plastic clothing hangers has been revealed for the first time – with calls for the fashion industry to urgently address the issue.

Northumbria academics are asking members of the public to complete a survey about how social distancing has impacted their mental health

International research to investigate the impact of social distancing measures on mental health

Academics at Northumbria University, Newcastle, are investigating the effects of social distancing on mental health, quality of life and the use of social media amid the COVID-19 pandemic.

Show more
Search for Studies and reports on Mynewsdesk

#TakeOnTomorrow

Northumbria is a research-intensive modern university with a global reputation for academic excellence.

Northumbria University, Newcastle
Northumbria University homepage