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1. Microbes, pollution and freshwater ecology in China

   Research to help inform water quality monitoring

2. Can we turn the tide for orangutans in 2016?

   Assisting conservationists in combating primate extinction threats

3. How the brain controls our sense of touch

   MRC Funded grant to offer most detailed insight yet

4. The importance of the Navy during WW1

   The Right Honourable Lord West of Spithead delivered a Roscoe Lecture which emphasised the importance of the Navy during World War One.

5. Andrew McMillan announced winner of Guardian First Book Award 2015

   Creative Writing Lecturer, Andrew McMillan, has become the first poet to win the Guardian First Book Award with Physical, a ‘breathtaking’ collection that explores modern male anxiety in settings from the gym to northern industrial towns.

6. Did Neanderthals have finer feelings?

   Understanding the lives of early people

7. New phase of biochemical technology

   Blood-monitoring medical solution could change healthcare forever

8. Broadcast Hub delivers interviews with Sky News and international broadcasters

   The Broadcast Hub is proving to be a useful tool for further raising the profile of the University, with Dr David Lowe conducting interviews with Sky News and broadcasters based in Istanbul and Dubai.

9. Driving the northern economy

   Collaboration campus for manufacturing and engineering skills

10. Shakespeare in a nutshell

    Shakespeare; creative genius, wordsmith and innovator, was also a man of the people. His influence on the English language has stood the test of time, and lines such as ‘in a nutshell,’ ‘mum's the word,’ ‘eaten out of house and home,’ ‘all's well that ends well" and ‘a wild goose chase’ are just some of those in common, everyday usage.