Dr Oskar Jensen and Electric Voice Theatre present an historic afternoon of BSL interpreted singing, poetry and storytelling celebrating the music of a once famous composer - Eliza Flower.

published on: 29 April 2024

A citizen science project reveals that most boat users along the North-East coast do not disturb dolphins and are often rewarded with close-up encounters.

published on: 29 April 2024

Professor Sinéad Morrissey has been chosen as the recipient of the prestigious Seamus Heaney Award, Japan

published on: 29 April 2024

Newcastle University has extended its prestigious Vice-Chancellor’s Excellence and Vice- Chancellor’s Global Scholarship schemes.

published on: 26 April 2024

A Newcastle University doctoral student has received international recognition for the quality and originality of her research.

published on: 26 April 2024

Planning consent has been secured for the detailed masterplan of Newcastle University’s multi-million pound Health Innovation Neighbourhood which will promote longer, healthier lives.

published on: 26 April 2024

The paediatric neuro-oncology collaboration between Newcastle University and Hospitals' has been recognised as a Centre of Excellence by the Tessa Jowell Brain Cancer Mission.

published on: 25 April 2024

Writing for The Conversation, Dr Joshua Jowitt discusses why the Government’s Rwanda bill can be regarded as a defective law despite having been passed by Parliament.

published on: 24 April 2024

A new £12 million research centre has been launched to improve clinical trials for patients with rare diseases.

published on: 23 April 2024

Experts from Newcastle University have helped innovate a solar-electric water taxi fabricated entirely from recycled plastic collected and manufactured in Kenya.

published on: 18 April 2024

Writing for The Conversation, Dr Adam Behr examines how the creative industries bring in more revenue than cars, oil and gas, yet are facing a funding freeze.

published on: 18 April 2024

The second James Berry Poetry Prize has opened for submissions.

published on: 15 April 2024

Newcastle University is a partner in a project which is revitalising the nine-mile outdoor trail between Gateshead town centre and the Derwent Valley.

published on: 15 April 2024

New study has found that retention ponds can deliver a substantial reduction in tyre particle pollution.

published on: 15 April 2024

Artificial intelligence has been found to improve the outcome of patients with voice box cancer, which is a step closer to personalised treatment, new research has revealed.

published on: 15 April 2024

Newcastle University’s museum and art gallery have received funding to support their important work with researchers.

published on: 12 April 2024

Talented filmmaker Jasmine Stephenson has created the visuals to accompany Simon Armitage’s band LYR’s song Profusion.

published on: 12 April 2024

An international team of astronomers have unveiled the evolutionary history of a massive binary system, which unusually contains a magnetic star.

published on: 12 April 2024

University representatives from across UK gathered in Liverpool to share their experiences and celebrate two years of the twinning programme.

published on: 11 April 2024

A learning centre designed to help young people from under-represented backgrounds in Newcastle progress into higher education has supported more than 1,200 students in the past year.

published on: 9 April 2024

Professor Peter Hopkins has been made a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh (RSE) for the excellence of his work and his contributions to policy in Scotland.

published on: 9 April 2024

Young dads in the North East have received a significant funding boost for a community climate project involving a Newcastle University academic.

published on: 8 April 2024

Clinical academics specialising in cancer research in Newcastle can now access support at every stage of their career development journey.

published on: 5 April 2024

Archaeologists from Newcastle University have unearthed evidence for an evolving sacred landscape spanning centuries in Crowland, Lincolnshire.

published on: 5 April 2024

Owen Hopkins, Director of the Farrell Centre at Newcastle University, is to represent the UK at the 19th International Architecture Exhibition at La Biennale di Venezia 2025.

published on: 5 April 2024

Newcastle University alumnus, Souhail Aboulfadile, has won the Science and Sustainability award at this year’s Study UK Alumni Awards in France.

published on: 2 April 2024

A free smartphone app, Drink Less, can help people who would benefit most from reducing their alcohol consumption to do so successfully, new research has revealed.

published on: 2 April 2024

A group of professional artists at Newcastle University have shown off their work at a contemporary gallery over 5,000 miles away in Mexico City.

published on: 2 April 2024

Writing for The Conversation, Dr Adam Behr discusses how the urban deprivation of the Thatcher years spawned the growth of two-tone music and provides the setting for new BBC drama This Town.

published on: 2 April 2024