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  • From Flooding to Covid-19

    From Flooding to Covid-19

    Masters students from Northumbria University, Newcastle, are helping businesses in Cumbria respond to the challenges of Covid-19 by drawing on lessons learned from flood recovery.
    Cumbria was hit hard by flooding in 2009 and in 2015, leaving many businesses and organisations struggling to survive. Now a group of Masters students from Northumbria’s Newcastle Business School has been using the ex

  • Traditional face to face police interviews have had to change due to the Covid-19 pandemic

    Project explores Covid-19 changes to police interview techniques

    A new research project is to examine what difference the use of telephone or video calls, as opposed to face to face participation, has on the fairness and effectiveness of police interviews, carried out with witnesses, victims and suspects of crime.

  • Solar storms occur when highly-charged particles and plasma erupt from the Sun’s corona. Photo credit: NASA/SDO, with image processing by Dr Huw Morgan, Aberystwyth University.

    Scientists to help forecast space weather threats

    A Northumbria University solar physicist is part of a team of scientists working on a new project to improve the ability of the Met Office to forecast space weather and its potential disruption to activities on Earth.

  • The miners' strike 1984- 85

    Northumbria research helping to change lives

    The Scottish Government last week announced that it will introduce legislation to quash the criminal convictions of hundreds of former Scottish coal miners, after publishing an independent review which was partly informed by research from a Northumbria University academic.
    Hundreds of former miners received convictions during the 1984-85 miners’ strike following a dispute between the unions and

  • Should we be concerned about greater use of personal data during Covid-19?

    Should we be concerned about greater use of personal data during Covid-19?

    Leading academics from Northumbria University, Newcastle, are carrying out research to investigate whether an increased use of digital information as part of the UK’s response to Covid-19 could lead to a break down in public trust.
    The work, entitled Observatory for Monitoring Data-Driven Approaches to COVID-19 (OMDDAC), will be led by Marion Oswald from Northumbria Law School in partnership wi

  • Northumbria’s degree apprenticeship partners recognised in new national leaderboard

    Northumbria’s degree apprenticeship partners recognised in new national leaderboard

    Northumbria University, Newcastle, is delivering degree apprenticeship courses for more than one in ten of the organisations recently ranked in a new national league table for top apprenticeship employers.
    Recognised as a leading degree apprenticeship training provider, Northumbria University was one of the first in the UK to offer the government-supported programmes. The University now works w

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