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  • (L to R)Business student Beth Knight with Michael Farnsworth, MD at BAM Worldwide, alongside Business Clinic project partners, Jack Callaghan, Liam Goble, Josef Cassar and William Johnson, MD at BAM Worldwide.

    Savvy advice from business students

    BAM Worldwide Ltd, the North East-based company behind the successful men’s online lifestyle accessory brand TORRO, recently teamed up with business students at Northumbria University to explore diversification and new routes to market.

  • Holiday clubs provide far more benefits beyond just providing food, study reveals

    Holiday clubs provide far more benefits beyond just providing food, study reveals

    The largest study of school holiday clubs in England has found that as well as helping to combat childhood hunger, holiday clubs provide a number of social and health benefits including providing children a safe place to play. The extensive findings of the study were released today (Wednesday 30 May) at a special event at the Discovery Museum, Newcastle upon Tyne.

  • A blacksmith furnace using medieval techniques to create metal objects

    Earliest European evidence of lead pollution uncovered in the Balkans

    New research from Northumbria University has revealed that metal-related pollution began in the Balkans more than 500 years before it appeared in western Europe, and persisted throughout the Dark Ages and Medieval Period, meaning the region played a far bigger role in mineral exploitation than previously believed.

  • Radar surveys across the Transantarctic Mountains

    Subglacial valleys and mountain ranges discovered near South Pole

    Researchers have discovered mountain ranges and three huge, deep subglacial valleys from data collected during the first modern aerogeophysical survey of the South Pole region. The findings are the first to emerge from extensive ice penetrating radar data collected in Antarctica as part of the European Space Agency PolarGAP project and have been published in Geophysical Research Letters.

  •  Northumbria students to perform at Northern Stage

    Northumbria students to perform at Northern Stage

    Two thought provoking plays are being performed at Northern Stage next week as graduating Performing Arts students from Northumbria University, Newcastle stage their final degree shows.

  • Work from last year's Woon Prize shortlist

    Shortlist for Woon Prize 2018 revealed

    The 10 finalists for this year’s prestigious Woon Foundation Painting and Sculpture Prize have been announced after a record number of applications.

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