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  • Northumbria's Vice-Chancellor Professor Andy Long meets the Rt Hon Gillian Keegan.

    Northumbria welcomes Secretary of State for Education

    The Secretary of State for Education, the Rt Hon Gillian Keegan, visited Northumbria University, Newcastle, to discuss unlocking opportunities for young people in the region and to hear about ground-breaking research in areas of global significance.

  • Dr. Peter Hill

    Northumbria historian receives prestigious research prize

    A Northumbria University academic has been awarded an acclaimed Philip Leverhulme Prize for his research on Middle East history and the origins of worldwide imperial power in the nineteenth century.
    Dr Peter Hill is a historian specialising in the Arab world. The Philip Leverhulme Prize, worth £100,000, will fund his research project examining popular politics in Ottoman Syria and its place in

  • L-R Northumbria's Professor Longzhi Yang, KTP Associate Rohit Venugopal and John Clayton, Knowledge Transfer Adviser, Innovate UK KTN

    Award success for Northumbria KTP Associate

    Northumbria University KTP Associate and data scientist Rohit Venugopal has won the Future Leader category in this year’s prestigious Innovate UK Knowledge Transfer Partnership (KTP) Awards for his work leading a project with ART Heath Solutions.
    As a Northumbria KTP Associate, Rohit worked with employee wellbeing business ART for two years as an Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Software Develo

  • Emily Ross (far right), Stronger Shores Project Delivery Officer, with Business Clinic students (from l-r) Katy Gilbert, Stephanie Boast, Alie Bendoy (crouching), Lucy Coates (crouching), and Northumbria University film student Siobhan Coughlan

    Power of digital marketing helps children understand coastal erosion

    Climate-conscious business students are helping South Tyneside Council to educate the next generation about the importance of preserving coastal communities to stave off climate change.
    The students from Northumbria University’s Business Clinic were asked to create a digital marketing strategy to help the Council educate school-aged children about Stronger Shores – a project that uses the powe

  • Dr Juna Sathian

    Top award for physicist’s research breakthrough

    A Northumbria University academic is part of a team of scientists to be awarded a prestigious physics gold medal and prize for their work developing the world’s first room-temperature MASER.

  • Dr Mark Goddard believes the importance of gardens for protecting wildlife and connecting people to nature is too often overlooked. Photo by Ellen Moran, Getty Images.

    Humanity for Habitat – saving nature at home

    The important role of managing residential gardens and yards to promote biodiversity is the focus of a new study led by the U.S. Department of Agriculture Forest Service and co-authored by an academic from Northumbria University.

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