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  • Creative approach to mental health

    During an eight-week placement at Tyneside Mind, Laura Warwick, a Doctoral Design Research student, applied Service Design principles and practices to redesign the delivery of the charity’s exiting services and develop a range of new mental health provision.

  • Best Fut Forward

    The cream of the world’s indoor football stars are heading to Sport Central this week.

  • University helping businesses to grow

    The first Business & IP Centre outside London was developed as a pilot in Newcastle in 2011 and has now secured over £1.3m to provide a full-scale operational service to businesses.

  • Design students collaborate with industry innovators

    A homecare medication box that senses and reminds the user when it is time to take their medicine, electronic sensors embedded in containers that detect whether home-cooked food is safe to eat, and counterfeit-detecting smartcards are just some of the commercial uses that Northumbria students have designed for a new technology called printable electronics.

  • For love not money – what keeps circuses on the road?

    Year-in, year-out the circus comes to town. But in 2013 circuses are in trouble. Seen by many as entertainment from a bygone age and facing Government action to ban circuses with wild animals, what is it that keeps circuses on the road? Why do they carry on going?

  • Partnership working to improve lives

    Both partners have pledged to build on established activity to support inward investment, help small businesses and promote health and well-being in the county.

  • Science... but not as you know it!

    As part of its role as associate partner in the world-famous British Science Festival event, Northumbria University is gearing up to a six-day showcase to help answer the question, what is science?

  • Managing an ageing prison population

    Identifying and addressing the physical, mental health and social care needs of ageing prisoners is vital to improve the UK’s prison service, say Northumbria criminologists.

  • Removing the stigma of dementia

    Northumbria University is hosting a series of activities to mark National Dementia Week this week amid the news that the North East is one of the most rapidly ageing regions in the country.

  • Skydiving is never plane sailing

    Skydivers show the same level of physical stress before every jump whether a first-timer or experienced jumper, say Northumbria researchers.

  • Testosterone makes you see red

    Putting on a red shirt can give individuals and teams a physical and psychological advantage and is the colour chosen by men with high levels of testosterone, says new research.

  • Student days are calling

    A weekend of celebrations is being held next month to mark the 20th anniversary of Northumbria University receiving its university charter.

  • Planning for success

    A Northumbria academic is in the running for the national title of Young Planner of the Year.

  • Northumbria student is top of the shops

    A Northumbria University student has been named as an inaugural winner in the Graduate Design Programme – the latest initiative to support graduate talent.

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