May 15
Following the Technology Strategy Board’s announcement in March of its “Long-term care revolution” call for sandpit participants, the Ageing Research Special Interest Group at Northumbria are planning to hold a two-hour workshop for staff who’ve expressed an interest in the call and potential applicants. This will take place on 22nd May in City Campus, Lipman Building, Room 035 between …
May 02
Once again Northumbria University is involved in 26 contributions to the prestigious CHI conference, this year being held in Paris and finishing today. You can read about them all here: CHI 2013: Changing Perspectives Experts from the Faculty of Arts, Design and Social Sciences and Health and Life Sciences have taken part this year, with contributions including …
Apr 26
The annual Northumbria Research Conference will take place on May 15th/16th at City Campus East. Booking is now open for Northumbria staff and research students; to book your place visit the Conference registration page or access the Conference programme from the dedicated Conference webpages. Like last year, all confirmed delegates will receive a packed conference …
Apr 25
Congraulations to Fuse, the Centre for Translational Research in Public Health, a collaboration between the universities of Northumbria, Newcastle, Durham, Sunderland and Teesside, which has secured funding for the next five years. The £4M funding is provided by the UK Clinical Research Collaboration initiative, a consortium of 8 of the UK’s leading health research funders including …
Apr 11
Northumbria University has recently announced a new Innovation Project Awards scheme which enables the provision of up to £6000 of University funding towards qualifying R+D projects conducted by our research and consultancy staff. Successful projects will be eligible for a 50% subsidy against the full project cost – maximum project value £12,000. The scheme is …
Apr 11
Recently Professor Bob Giddings represented Northumbria University in a Horizon 2020 Stakeholder Workshop in Rome on Sustainable Urban Dynamics. This workshop involved experts across the EU from industry and academia as well as the EC to inform the development of the Horizon 2020 Challenge on “The promotion of sustainable and inclusive environments through innovative spatial …
Mar 18
As part of our continuing commitment to research and scholarship, Northumbria University is offering research degree studentships, available for uptake from September 2013. Applications are invited across the full range of disciplines offered by Northumbria University. Fully or partially funded studentships may include fees, an annual stipend, travel costs and consumables. For further details of our …
Mar 14
Professor Rick Rylance (AHRC Chief Executive and Chair of RCUK Executive Group) recently visited Northumbria University to deliver a research policy seminar in which he outlined his vision on the future of research, gave some insight into current government policy on research, and outlined several principles which guide research council investments. The following are brief …
Mar 07
A Northumbria University PhD student, Godwin Yeboah, and his supervisor Dr Seraphim Alvanides are two key members of the organising committee for an international workshop on Urban Cycling which takes place on 14th May in Leuven, Belgium: Cycling Data Challenge 2013: Understanding Urban Cycling The workshop takes place in advance of the 16th AGILE conference …
Mar 06
Northumbria University Library is delivering a week long event of workshops and briefings, targeted at Post Graduate Researchers and University staff. The event has been specifically designed to support the knowledge development, core competencies and transferable skills, defined within Vitae’s Researcher Development Framework, as the key elements of a successful researcher. Researcher Development Week activities …
