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  • Calling inspirational photographers

    Calling inspirational photographers

    Budding photographers still have time to enter their inspirational images of the North East to a Northumbria University competition.

  • Design with a difference

    Design with a difference

    Design graduates and designers will be encouraged to think about the difference design can make at a Northumbria University event this month.

  • The struggle for Newcastle

    The struggle for Newcastle

    Newcastle city centre is the setting for a political drama that pits rich against poor, in a play written and directed by Northumbria University academics.

  • Creative approach to mental health

    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

    Best Fut Forward

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

  • University helping businesses to grow

    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

    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?

    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?

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