A free online event for A Level students (of any subject)
Friday 16 December 2022 at 1-1.30 pm or 5-5.30pm (we are offering this session twice)
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We are excited to announce that Northumbria University’s programme of events for this year’s Being Human Festival has now gone live.
Being Human is the national festival of the humanities, and this year Northumbria is one of only five institutions that have been awarded Research Hub status. This means that, working alongside community partners and with Tyne and Wear Archives & Museums, Northumbria researchers will deliver an exciting programme of free events that celebrate two iconic treasures of the North East: The Lindisfarne Gospels and Hadrian’s Wall.
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As we mentioned before, our colleague Patricia Canning contributed to a very important report on the treatment of fans at the Champions League Final in Paris in 2022 which formed the basis of a BBC Panorama programme on this.
Here is a summary by Patricia of the report and its findings.
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Here is information on our first Linguistics Research Seminar of the new academic year.
Our speakers are Billy Clark and Tony Williams, both from Northumbria. Billy and Tony have been discussing how pragmatic theories can be developed by looking at the work of creative writers (including how they talk about their work) and at how ideas from pragmatics might help writers to understand and develop their practice.
There is more information below. All welcome!
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The local organising committee of the British Association for Applied Linguistics (BAAL) created this page for attendees at the annual conference which we hosted online in September 2021 (postponed from 2020). The conference website is here:
https://www.northumbria.ac.uk/about-us/news-events/events/2021/09/baal-2020/
We were sorry not to be able to welcome attendees to Northumbria in person and to show them around our campus, around the toon (as locals call Newcastle), and around the north-east of England.
To make up for this a little bit, we shared here some links and some information about us and our local environment.
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Northumbria Englishes 