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What’s On: Beestival – The Best of Beeston
June 17, 2013
Blog: Off Campus
From Monday 17th June to Saturday 22nd June, there will be an array of events taking place in Beeston as part of Beestival, as well as the opportunity to get your hands on some great money saving vouchers which are valid at local businesses during the week of activities. We’ve picked out a few highlights …
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MB Update – 20 June
June 20, 2013
Blog: Management Board Update
Integrated Financial Management Andrew Unitt, Chief Financial Officer (designate), updated MB on plans for the first phase of the Integrated Financial Management (IFM) project, which will involve meetings with Deans and other stakeholders within the university. IFM is intended to improve efficiency and co-ordination between schools and central financial reporting. Car parking charges Management Board …
Windows on War: An Online Poster Exhibition
19/06/2013
Blog: Cultures, Languages and Area Studies
In 1969 as part of the legacy of Vivian de Sola Pinto (formerly Professor of English) the University acquired a rare collection of Soviet posters from WWII. These posters were hand-made almost every day during the war to keep the population abreast of progress, to maintain morale and attack the enemy. Yes, they are propaganda, …
CPI blog on break
June 19, 2013
Blog: China Policy Institute Blog
Dear readers, please note that the CPI blog will be on break for a couple of weeks. It will return in July with our regular fare of academic commentary and analysis. Jon
Shameless Fresher nostalgia post
June 19, 2013
Blog: A fresh start
It’s the end of term this week and officially the end to the first year for thousands of lovely Freshers who joined us in September 2012. So here’s some shameless Fresher nostalgia for you to enjoy. Remember when you moved in? Remember when Jack and Matt from URN welcomed you to campus with some rather impressive …
Picturing Politics: Thomas More’s Utopia
June 19, 2013
Blog: Ballots & bullets
Posted in Picturing Politics In the fifth post in the Picturing Politics series Dr Lucy Sargisson looks at the map that forms the frontispiece for Thomas More’s Utopia and what the map reveals about More’s work. It is a wildly radical book, Dr Sargisson argues, that is as relevant today as it was when it was published, …
Wings in the Portland Ballroom – surely not?
June 19, 2013
Blog: Alumni Life
Written by Simon Harvey Over the last 100 years there have been iconic people, places and events associated with The University of Nottingham. Alumni remember them all and many stories about them have been featured in Alumni Exchange Magazine. For the first time the Remembering Nottingham Blog will reproduce some of these articles. Feel free …
School of Rock
June 19, 2013
Blog: Registrarism
New foundation degree in heavy metal makes some noise. The Nottingham Post reports on a new degree in heavy metal launched at New College Nottingham: Performance, recording and promotion will also feature heavily, with students having career options with recording companies, teaching and performance. “You can study music at Oxford, Cambridge and in cities all …
Ladding in London
June 19, 2013
Blog: Student life
Do you like Shakespeare? Do you like Merlin? Then you’ll love seeing Colin Morgan as Ariel in the Tempest! Points to anyone who got this reference: So I had a lovely weekend visiting my friend Carrie-Anne in Maidenhead I slept in one of the most comfy beds I’ve ever slept in: Ate some of …
Extreme weather talk: Making climate public?
June 19, 2013
Blog: Making Science Public
This is yet another in a series of blog posts where I try to show how one can use publicly available data (newspaper databases or Google Insight for Search) to observe patterns and shifts in public attention to climate change. Other posts have dealt with some first reflections on extreme weather, Hurricane Sandy, alarmism, carbon …
June 18, 2013
Blog: Press Office
Michael Domokos, Senior Project Manager for Corporate Systems at the University, is undertaking a charity challenge that would leave even the very fittest saddle-sore… What made me sign up to something that would see my cycle 3,000 miles, climb 150,000ft (the equivalent of cycling up Everest 5 times) in the worst weather that we have …
‘Inside Out of Mind’
June 18, 2013
Blog: From the Vice-Chancellor's desk
One of the biggest challenges we face is our ageing population. Modern medicine and general improvements in health have resulted in many more of us living longer. There are now 1.7 million more people over the age of 65 than 25 years ago, and the number of people over the age of 85 has doubled …
Is Corporate Responsibility & Sustainability Practice an Emerging Profession?
June 18, 2013
Blog: Better Business
I recently moved to the UK after writing my PhD dissertation on the topic of professional ethics (at the University of Toronto). Upon arriving at ICCSR, I was interested to learn that several organizations in the UK (e.g. GACSO and CRG) are considering establishing professional bodies (or institutes) for Corporate Responsibility (CR) and Sustainability practitioners. What …
Me, some research & a blog – The Clinical Series: Doing my bit for HeadSmart
June 18, 2013
Blog: Research Exchange
Welcome to the first blog of the Clinical Series. To write this blog I needed to make a couple of decisions – what research I wanted to share, why I wanted to share it and how. In this case, this was easy. I didn’t need to do rummaging to find this work, it came to …
The Cost of Marriage
June 18, 2013
Blog: History Past and Present
How much money do you need to get married these days? According to The Guardian (7/8/2010) the wedding day alone is said to cost the average British couple £21,000 (up from £12,000 in 2003) and tales circulate of newlyweds hawking their wedding presents on ebay in order to recoup marital expenses. And that is without …
Psychology’s “open doors”
June 18, 2013
Blog: Talking of teaching
Dr Richard Tunney: “Academics have always sought to strike a balance between their roles as teachers and as researchers. That balance has probably shifted one way or the other as a knock on effect of the changing priorities of governments and universities. Recent years have seen university schools and departments responding to changing student expectations …
Adherence VS. Pharmacy – A Never Ending Feud?
June 17, 2013
Blog: Pharm Life
As the second year of my pharmacy degree draws to a close, I am beginning to realise how all the skills and knowledge I have learnt can actually be used in practice. During my second semester, I studied a professional skills module in which I was exposed to the idea of ‘adherence’. I have had …
Critical Theory Meets Science & Technology Studies
June 17, 2013
Blog: The Critical Moment
Last week I got invited to give a talk by the University of Nottingham Institute for Science and Society. As well as really enjoying it and meeting some great people, I got asked some interesting questions that made me think about different elements of my research: particularly issues surrounding potential incompatibilities between policy and activism. …
Menander in Contexts
June 17, 2013
Blog: Ancient Drama
Fifteen of the papers from last year’s Nottingham conference on Menander in Contexts, byscholars from seven countries, are due to be published by Routledge in January 2014 as a book with the same title. It is over a century since Menander made his first great step back from the shades with the publication of the Cairo codex, and …
Morality: What is it good for?
June 17, 2013
Blog: Think About It
At his press conference concerning the current crisis in Syria yesterday, David Cameron said: ‘It is no secret that President Putin and I have had our disagreements on some of these issues, but what I take from our conversation today is that we can overcome these differences if we recognise that we share some fundamental …
再见 Ningbo
June 16, 2013
Blog: Words for Words
So this is my final blog post, quite a while after I have left Ningbo to travel Southeast Asia (Vietnam, Thailand, Hong Kong and Bali, Indonesia). I finished my exams –okay, my one exam- in late May (fantastically early compared to those back on the UK campus) and began to make the most of my …
Writing for Some Purpose
June 16, 2013
Blog: Arts Matters
I am frequently asked to write references. It’s not my favourite task. While happy to help and recommend the individual concerned – I wouldn’t agree to write it otherwise – the task of reference-writing itself is one I never relish. I love writing in general but there is something about writing for this specific purpose …
Stop! Look! Listen!
June 14, 2013
Blog: NUBS Postgrad Careers
Exams over? No job for September? Panic time? No! It may seem like time is pressing but that doesn’t mean that all your planning must go out of the window and the secret to success is applying for as many jobs as possible. It may be counter-intuitive but when it comes to applying for job …
Numberphile (Pi and the size of the Universe)
June 14, 2013
Blog: Malaysia Research and Knowledge Transfer
In this series, we are presenting videos from the Numberphile Videos (Web Site) project. This project is a colllection of videos about numbers. The video below looks at Pi and the size of the Universe. Previous blog entries on this topic can be seen seen here (this is a link to entries tagged with numberphile …
Graduation Photo Opportunities
June 13, 2013
Blog: Off Campus
Do you graduate this year? Are you going to miss your graduation ceremony? Or maybe you have lots of friends from different courses and you’d love a shot of all of you together in your robes? The Graduation Team are aware that many graduands are unable to attend their ceremony but are keen to have …
Breaching boundaries
June 12, 2013
Blog: Screen Focus
Welcome to the blog of ISIR, the Institute for Screen Industries Research. ISIR was created to foster collaborations between academia and film, television and screen industries. Since this is our first blog, it might be helpful to outline the philosophy behind ISIR and its aims. In particular, two areas are important in this sense, what …
Beijing, the Great Wall and a Global Village: Why I would love to come back
June 12, 2013
Blog: China Student Life
By Katie Angus As things get increasingly more hectic before the end of term, it’s always more difficult to keep on track of what I’ve done and where I’ve been, but since the last post, I’ve visited Beijing and most importantly, seen the Great Wall! Beijing is a great city; where Shanghai has a slick, …
From studying something you don’t love to studying something you do
June 12, 2013
Blog: Study What You Love
Dr Nathan Waddell, Lecturer in Modern and Contemporary Literature at the University, on studying something he didn’t love, studying something he did — and that making all the difference… Although many people will want to tell you that it’s vital to have your career trajectory mapped out from an early age in perfect sequence, life …
Friar Bacon and Friar Bungay (Read Not Dead) @ Shakespeare’s Globe, Park Street Rehearsal Room
June 9, 2013
Blog: The Bardathon
Friar Bacon and Friar Bungay is, arguably, the finest work by the much maligned Robert Greene, a historical romance in the vein of Fair Em and a fine example of the late sixteenth century stable of university conjurer dramas that also produced Doctor Faustus. It no doubt presented Read not Dead first-time director David Oakes …
We all have a duty to strengthen consumer trust
June 7, 2013
Blog: Centre for Risk, Banking and Financial Services
We all have a duty to strengthen consumer trust By Shane Mullins, CEO, Fiscal Engineers One of the key aims of the recommendations arising out of the Retail Distribution Review was to strengthen consumer confidence. If we take it as read that this has now been achieved we make a dangerous assumption. RDR is …
A Marvellous Time at Mayfest!
June 6, 2013
Blog: Manuscripts and Special Collections
Manuscripts & Special Collections staff were kept very busy at this year’s Mayfest, the University’s annual Community Open Day held on the 18th May, as over 1000 people visited the two separate events: ‘Marvellous Manuscripts’ in the Portland Building and ‘Wade into Water’ at Lakeside Arts Centre. Conservation staff were on hand at ‘Marvellous Manuscripts’ to show …
Christal Seebaran wins the Vice-Chancellor’s Global Graduate prize, supported by STA Travel
June 6, 2013
Blog: Nottingham Advantage Award
Third year BioMedical Science student, Christal Seebaran, is the winner of the Vice-Chancellor’s Global Graduate Prize, supported by STA Travel. This year, the successful candidate was asked to demonstrate the ability to think critically, show exceptional maturity and independence, and demonstrate cross-cultural awareness. The Global Graduate Prize was presented by the University Registrar, Paul Greatrix, …
Martial Arts for Debt Collecting
4 June, 2013
Blog: Ingenuity Business Network
Speaker: Professor Bob Berry, Boots Professor of Accounting and Finance, Nottingham University Business School As with any martial art, the art of managing receivables is as much one of staying out of trouble as dealing with, said Professor Bob Berry, and this process starts right from the point when new business is accepted. Turning a …
The drama of good government
June 3, 2013
Blog: Medieval @ Nottingham
Next Friday (June 7), I will be attending an extraordinary performance next Friday: an uncut production of Sir David Lyndsay’s Ane Satyre of the Thrie Estaitis at Linlithgow Peel. Ane Satyre is the first surviving play text in Older Scots: it is a personification play, most akin to Mankind , Everyman or even Magnificence. The …
Putting the Vice-Chancellor in the Hot Seat!
May 31, 2013
Blog: Sustainable Nottingham
Tuesday 4 June 2013 10am UK time / 5pm China and Malaysia time Vice-Chancellor Professor David Greenaway is set to hold a webinar to discuss the University’s approach to sustainability on Moodle. Hosted ‘in the NOOC’ – the Perspectives on Sustainability open module – this is your chance to meet the man who leads the University, …
Can the Chinese Workers Eat Apple?
May 29, 2013
Blog: A world in crisis?
On 24 September, the iPhone 5 was launched in the first nine countries/areas, America, United Kingdom, France, Germany, Canada, Singapore, Japan, Australia, Hong Kong. It was then launched in 22 more countries in the week beginning 1 October. The first weekend’s sales were very impressive, reaching 5 million. This number already broke Apple’s previous record …
The finale of the year…
May 22, 2013
Blog: Keys to success
Handing in assignments is never a stress-free period. The 16th May was no exception. Looking back over the previous (Spring) term, it seems impossible to write in such a concise manner that I display the vast knowledge I have gained over the term from my modules. Yet all I know have to do is sit …
Geog On… ‘the city’, ‘remote sensing’ and ‘ecosystem services’
May 20, 2013
Blog: The Geog Blog
After a slightly long Easter break Geog On… catches up with itself with three new podcasts… On the city: Alex Vasudevan talks about contemporary urban geography On remote sensing: Doreen Boyd discusses remote sensing and the amazing data you can get from cctv cameras! On environmental services: Jamie Tratalos talks to Matt about the work …
Overwhelming Questions: Thoughts on the UNMC Research Priorities Workshop, April 30 2013
May 17, 2013
Blog: Knowledge Without Borders
Our UNMC Research Priorities Workshop brought into focus many elements of the sheer range of research taking place on the campus. It gave colleagues the opportunity to explore concepts and themes which unite our work across the disparate disciplines and faculties. Coming to the process from an Arts/Social Sciences background, I found a surprising level …
Margaret Thatcher – The Philosopher?
April 16, 2013
Blog: Interdisciplinarity in Action
The passing of Margaret Thatcher on Monday 8th April has produced a plethora of commentary which has been as divisive as the politics she herself espoused. Whilst I disagree with essentially the whole programme of her political ideology, a tribute paid by Conor Burns MP (Cons) demonstrates that she was a woman who deeply understood the …
Ben, Where Are You?!
April 15, 2013
Blog: Malaysia Student Life
Sorry for the disappearing act! I’m currently back in London and I finally have FREE TIME to update my blog. Love it! I’ve been ridiculously busy with a number of crazy things, all of which will be revealed to you ASAP….. Well, as soon as I find out whether or not I’m …
Meat scares and the gains for food security
March 13, 2013
Blog: Global Food Security
Dr John Strak, Honorary Professor in Food Economics at The University of Nottingham, discusses how the horsemeat scandal has dented trust in the food industry and what this means for food security. Are we eating too much processed meat? Meat consumption is dominating the news agenda these days and the latest headlines concern the risk …
Success, but not the top jobs – not yet anyway
March 12, 2013
Blog: From The Cloisters
The 8th March was International Women’s Day and the celebrations ranged from respect for, and appreciation of women, to a celebration for women’s political, economic and social achievements. The Guardian, as expected, enthusiastically celebrated International Women’s Day; I particularly liked the top 25 African women, but there were many more. National Geographic also celebrated by …
The Last Battle of the Vikings
December 14, 2012
Blog: Underwater archaeology
Over the summer I got the chance to work on a BBC documentary looking at the events around the Battle of Largs in 1263. It’s a subject that’s close to my heart as I grew up near Largs and although I was always aware that the battle had taken place there (thanks in no small …
Listen again (and again)
October 1, 2012
Blog: On learning to read
Listen again (and again): The full shortlisted of the BBC International Short Story Award 2012, available as free podcasts. Hurry, hurry.
Are you inspired by London 2012?
September 10, 2012
Blog: Olympics blog
As the Paralympic closing ceremony brought the curtain down on a spectacular summer of sport, thoughts quickly turned to the legacy of the Games. The impact that the Olympics and Paralympics will have on the country has long been used when justifying the cost of hosting ‘the greatest show on earth’. Whether it was The …
The VC’s Life Cycle 2 Blog: Day 14 – Eastbourne to Dover
September 7, 2012
Blog: Nottingham Life Cycle
It’s interesting how distance becomes relative. At breakfast today when our maps were handed out, there was real delight that we ‘only’ had about 65 miles to do. Four months ago we were not even doing that in training runs. And, apart from two big climbs, one out of Hastings and one into Dover, it …
Celebrating Teaching successes in the Humanities. The Postgraduate Teaching Awards 2012
July 10, 2012
Blog: Teaching Humanities
In the latest round of the Postgraduate Teaching Awards, two of the students recognised for their outstanding contributions to Teaching and Learning within the School of Humanities are Helen Wainwright and Peter Watts, both of them doctoral candidates within the School of Humanities. The Postgraduate Teaching Assistant Award recognises and celebrates examples of innovative teaching …
Representing and communicating uncertainty: climate change and risk
June 11, 2012
Blog: Communicating Climate
As part of its Science in Culture theme, the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) has funded an exploratory project at the University of Nottingham called Representing and communicating uncertainty: climate change and risk. This interdisciplinary project brings together academics from across the University in the Schools of Geography, Sociology and Social policy, Mathematical Sciences …
25 December: Season’s Greetings from the Vice-Chancellor
December 25, 2011
Blog: Advent calendar
I hope you have enjoyed the daily blog posts from the e-Advent Calendar over the last 25 days. The daily posts have been an excellent way to showcase the richness and diversity of material within the University’s Manuscripts and Special Collections. From our extensive DH Lawrence collections through to old recipes and beautiful illustrations, there …