News in March 2022

Dr Emma Whipday has been named as one of this year’s New Generation Thinkers.

published on: 31 March 2022

Newcastle University’s popular INSIGHTS Public Lectures will make a welcome return to campus after Easter.

published on: 31 March 2022

Warmer summers and meltwater lakes are threatening the fringes of the world’s largest ice sheet, new research has shown.

published on: 31 March 2022

Funding has been announced for a new project exploring households’ energy and water efficiency in the race to net zero.

published on: 30 March 2022

Newcastle University has formed a Joint Venture with Genr8 Kajima Regeneration Ltd to transform a former general hospital site into a centre for research and innovation in ageing and living well.

published on: 29 March 2022

Charlotte Davison has been inspired to help The Little Princess Trust (LPT) by the work of her great aunt who researches kinder treatments for childhood leukaemia.

published on: 28 March 2022

The documentary Ordinary Life won best Regional Student Award: Factual Film at the RTS North East and Borders Awards.

published on: 22 March 2022

Research shows species on the brink of extinction have successfully been saved. Professor Philip McGowan argues that applying the same approaches more broadly could help the planet.

published on: 22 March 2022

Newcastle Law School has launched a new online Master in Laws (LL.M.) degree programme in Mediation and International Commercial Dispute Resolution.

published on: 22 March 2022

Professor Alastair Bonnett discusses the Russian model of colonialism by absorption, in relation to the war in Ukraine.

published on: 22 March 2022

Women need to be included from the outset, and not just in the final stages of negotiations, if we are to bring about better and more inclusive outcomes, comments Dr Katharine A. M. Wright.

published on: 21 March 2022

The war in Ukraine has caused America to hesitate in its role as ‘leader of the free world’, writes Professor Susan-Mary Grant.

published on: 21 March 2022

Professor of European History, Daniel Siemens, comments on how the war in Ukraine is a turning point in the German-Russian relationship.

published on: 21 March 2022

Dr Robert Dale discusses how different versions of Ukraine's history over hundreds of years obscure the country's rich and vibrant past.

published on: 21 March 2022

Discover the women in agriculture across Northumberland and the Scottish Borders in an insightful and powerful portrait exhibition, Daughters of the Soil.

published on: 18 March 2022

Newcastle University is to lead one of two research projects that will help enable the future take-up of greener, hydrogen-based fuels in the UK.

published on: 18 March 2022

Malavika Anderson has been appointed by Tyne & Wear Archives & Museums (TWAM) as Museum Manager at Newcastle University’s Great North Museum: Hancock.

published on: 17 March 2022

A new learning centre in Newcastle is set to empower thousands of young people to achieve their academic and career ambitions.

published on: 16 March 2022

An abandoned mausoleum and silver extraction taking place on an industrial scale at a Roman site in rural Kent have left archaeologists with a 1500-year-old mystery.

published on: 15 March 2022

Some of the country’s brightest young musical talents will take to the stage to perform the first great English opera next week.

published on: 15 March 2022

New research has begun to unravel the mystery of why a particular form of leukaemia in infants has defied efforts to improve outcomes, despite significant improvements in treating older children.

published on: 14 March 2022

The antiseptic drug methenamine hippurate is as good as antibiotics for preventing recurrent urinary tract infections in women, finds a trial published by The BMJ.

published on: 11 March 2022

Newcastle University has lent its support to the Lift the Ban campaign, calling on the UK Government to give people seeking asylum the right to work.

published on: 10 March 2022

A geographer at Newcastle University is part of a unique project to mark the 40th anniversary of the Falkland Islands war.

published on: 10 March 2022

Experts at Newcastle University are working with the North East Local Enterprise Partnership (LEP) and young people to better understand how a skills gap facing the region can be addressed.

published on: 9 March 2022

A protein found in tick saliva could be turned into a drug that eases itching and chronic pain in people.

published on: 8 March 2022

Leave Newcastle Happy, the popular Newcastle University student-led campaign will return to help clean up our city.

published on: 7 March 2022

The National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) Newcastle Clinical Research Facility (CRF) has received over £5.47m to continue its research into a range of health conditions.

published on: 4 March 2022

Glasgow-based Durty Beanz are a collaborative performance project established in 2019.

published on: 3 March 2022

The privacy notices and tracking practices of top international websites and their apps on Android devices are not compliant with current regulations, a Newcastle University-led study has revealed.

published on: 3 March 2022

An International Women’s Day event will see inspirational women speak on their contributions to breaking the gender bias in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics.

published on: 2 March 2022

Writing for The Conversation, experts from the Universities of Newcastle and Warwick discuss why fracking is not the answer to soaring UK gas prices.

published on: 2 March 2022

Our Vice-Chancellor and President and Deputy Vice-Chancellor and Provost have written to all colleagues in light of the situation in Ukraine.

published on: 2 March 2022

Scientists are trialling a new sensor to help monitor greenhouse gas emissions from agriculture.

published on: 1 March 2022

Professor Pauline Dixon has received the coveted accolade for excellence in her field.

published on: 1 March 2022