Research into children, families, public mental health and places and communities has been boosted with £25 milllion for the NIHR School for Public Health Research.

published on: 16 September 2021

Writing for The Conversation, Professor Abigail Marks discusses the issues surrounding a shorter working week.

published on: 14 September 2021

Award-winning North-East actors have joined forces with academics to showcase stories of true Geordie grit – and the dialect used by the generation behind tales from post-war Tyneside.

published on: 13 September 2021

Dr Yujiang Wang and Dr Chris Harrison are among the nearly 100 of the UK’s future science leaders set to benefit from a £113m cash boost to help commercialise their innovations.

published on: 8 September 2021

Northerners were more likely to die from Covid, spent nearly six weeks more in lockdowns, suffered worse mental health and were made poorer than the rest of England in the first year of the pandemic.

published on: 8 September 2021

The definition of remission from type 2 diabetes has been re-written for medics in America, Europe and Britain thanks in part to the work of Newcastle University’s Professor Roy Taylor.

published on: 31 August 2021

Writing for The Conversation, PhD researcher Douglas Boyes discusses why the changing colour of our streetlights could be a danger for insect populations.

published on: 26 August 2021

'Eco-friendly’ LED streetlights are even more harmful for insect populations than the traditional sodium bulbs they are replacing, a new study has shown.

published on: 26 August 2021

Tiny synthetic particles known as dendrimers avoid detection by our immune system and could help develop a new way to deliver drugs into the body without triggering a reaction.

published on: 11 August 2021

Researchers at Newcastle University Business School are to look at how the UK's small businesses have understood and complied with government regulations during the COVID-19 pandemic.

published on: 5 August 2021

Town Moor Cattle are the focus of a new photographic publication

published on: 30 July 2021

New research from Newcastle University Business School and the Work Foundation has found that hybrid working is set to become a feature of northern workplaces in the future.

published on: 29 July 2021

More citizens’ assemblies would enable the public to complement the role of Select Committees and contribute to the scrutiny of government on important topic like climate change.

published on: 15 July 2021

A new exhibition will explore the reaction of the community of Blyth to changes in the industries based there -from carbon producing to carbon reducing.

published on: 7 July 2021

Writing for The Conversation, Liz Lewis and colleagues discuss their new study in Nature Geoscience which shows that trees could also affect rainfall patterns.

published on: 7 July 2021

Three years after it was first displayed among the ancient ruins of Herculaneum and Pompeii, Expanded Interiors is being reimagined in a remarkable new multimedia exhibition at the Hatton Gallery.

published on: 1 July 2021

Exploitation of workers in the Malaysian medical glove industry has worsened during the Covid-19 pandemic, according to new research carried out by a partnership led by Newcastle University.

published on: 1 July 2021

Domestic burning of wood and dung fuels in Neolithic homes would have exceeded internationally-agreed standards for indoor air quality, exposing inhabitants to unsafe levels of particulates.

published on: 30 June 2021

Scientists from Newcastle University and partners from Northumbrian Water have opened a new facility that will play a key role in improving how sewage is treated.

published on: 29 June 2021

Newcastle University, Historic England, and English Heritage have launched a major new archaeological excavation at the site of Birdoswald Roman fort in Cumbria, on Hadrian’s Wall World Heritage Site.

published on: 25 June 2021

Patients with a unique cellular disorder are helping researchers understand a series of health complications better.

published on: 23 June 2021

Whose Stories?, a podcast focusing on diversity and representation in children’s books, has been commissioned by Newcastle University and Seven Stories' Vital North Partnership.

published on: 22 June 2021

Newcastle University led project Creative Fuse will play a key part in a new fund which will help to create a more resilient and sustainable future for the creative sector in a post-COVID- 19 economy.

published on: 15 June 2021

Writing for The Conversation, Dr Adam Behr discusses how the delay in lifting lockdown will affect live music venues.

published on: 15 June 2021

Writing for The Conversation, Dr Martin Farr discusses how eighty years after the Atlantic Charter, Joe Biden and Boris Johnson have reset the “special relationship”, with the New Atlantic Charter.

published on: 11 June 2021