Town and Gown on the Tyne
A study of data from Jesmond, Newcastle, and the North East, examining the past, present, and future of social statistics
Dates: 16th May - 9th November 2025
Location: Special Collections & Archives exhibition area, Level 2, Philip Robinson Library,
Opening times: Please see the Philip Robinson Library's opening times for details.
Free entry. All welcome (you do not have to be a member of the University to view the exhibition)
Town and Gown on the Tyne explores studentification in areas around Newcastle University. The exhibition invites students to re-think what they know about where they live in term time.
It includes a visual story of life in Jesmond, Newcastle, and the North East—told through public data—presented across 10 mounted posters.
This approach views embellished” social statistics as visual arguments. These arguments unfold within the environments they depict, making them recognisable and relevant to everyone.
Curated and researched by Murray Dick, Senior Lecturer in Multimedia Journalism from the School of Arts and Cultures, this showcase combines data visualisation posters, alongside material from Newcastle University Special Collections & Archives and secondary source material.
Methods and project findings will be published next year in a new book (Embodying Information: A Multimodal Experimental Approach to Data Visualization), as part of the Routledge Studies in Multimodality series.
