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Revising for Exams, Making Life Plans, & Taking Public Transport
May 15, 2012
Blog: Malaysia Student Life
…I’m back! Apologies for my week off last week, I was ridiculously ill! I haven’t been sick this whole semester, so I was waiting for it to happen – but who knew my body would let me down right when I needed it most, at the start of the exam season… Absolutely perfect timing. Either …
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Changing behaviours is difficult stuff.
May 16, 2012
Blog: Better Business
Changing behaviours is difficult stuff. Years of public information campaigns to reduce smoking and drink-driving bear testament to the cost and time required in convincing people to make safer and healthier lifestyle choices. So why then, as I reflect on a recent teaching experience with aspiring MBAs, am I surprised at the time it seems …
Angkor Wat, Getting Vaccinated and Sloths
May 16, 2012
Blog: Student life
My friend Alice has just come back from a trip to Beijing. She has been studying in the Ningbo Campus for a semester and took time out after the exams there to go to the capital. Seeing her photos in my study breaks make me crave for the summer. Tanya and I recently booked four …
Farming may not always be just as we know it….
Blog: Global Food Security
Dr John Strak, Honorary Professor in Food Economics at The University of Nottingham, talks vertical farming… A meeting on our Jubilee Campus last week gave me the chance to catch up on some new developments in science and, with about 100 others, to share ideas on what vertical farming can contribute to global food security. …
Polling Observatory #14: Cameron in Crisis? Conservative collapse continues
May 16, 2012
Blog: Ballots & bullets
Posted in British politics,Methodology This is the thirteenth of a series of posts that report on the state of the parties as measured by opinion polls.By pooling together all the available polling evidence we can reduce the impact of the random variation each individual survey inevitably produces. Most of the short term advances and setbacks …
William Lobo wins the Leadership Prize supported by Barclays Retail and Business Bank
May 16, 2012
Blog: Nottingham Advantage Award
Final Year Economics with French student, William Lobo, has successfully completed the Nottingham Advantage Award and is the winner of the Leadership Prize supported by Barclays Retail and Business Bank. Barclays were looking for a candidate that had demonstrated that they had developed and utilised leadership qualities and attributes in activities throughout the award. The prize from …
Making neuroscience public: Neurohype, neuroscepticism and neuroblogging
May 15, 2012
Blog: Making Science Public
There has been a lot of debate recently about climate scepticism and climate sceptics. To define what climate sceptics are is actually quite difficult, but some may be described as (anthropogenic) climate (change) deniers, some as climate change doubters, some as critical observers of climate science, some as just sitting on the fence. There are …
A year immersed in water records
May 15, 2012
Blog: Manuscripts and Special Collections
This month I have come to the end of a year spent appraising, arranging and describing over 500 boxes of archive material relating to water, in my role as cataloguing archivist for Manuscripts and Special Collection’s Water Records Project. It has been quite a task, wrestling with rolled up plans, unwrapping packets of mysterious …
A Bright future for the Chinese food and drink industry: Guang Ming buys Weetabix!
May 14, 2012
Blog: China Policy Institute Blog
By Mike Bastin. The international expansion of Chinese companies and their brands is now one of the most influential trends across the global business environment. My research and training within Chinese companies over the last 10 years has revealed a huge surge in confidence, ambition and determination to conquer global markets. The Shanghai-based Bright (‘Guang …
Why should China’s leadership succession matter to the rest of the world?
May 13, 2012
Blog: A world in crisis?
The formal process for the once-in-a-decade leadership succession in China is scheduled for the autumn. But the process to work out the succession is well underway. It came to the fore when the charismatic Party Secretary for Chongqing got into trouble when his former police chief sought asylum in the US consulate in February. He …
4-10 May: The big stories this week
May 11, 2012
Blog: Press Office
This week’s round-up includes new of how the University’s athletes did at British Universities & Colleges Sport (BUCS) VISA Outdoor Athletics Championships at the new Olympic Stadium. There’s also a rundown of the very best from this year’s May Fest programme which is happening on Saturday 19 May. As well as that, there’s news of …
A day in the life of a Geographer…Amber Martin
Blog: The Geog Blog
Well, sadly for me the delights of Manhattan and the AAG are but a distant dream. However, being back in the Sir Clive Granger Building here in Nottingham has its own delights. This week I’ve been working hard at cracking on with writing my thesis, which has involved trying to tie up any loose ends …
GSK and Business Partnerships
May 11, 2012
Blog: From the Vice-Chancellor's desk
Partnerships are an essential element of successful organisations, a tried and trusted mechanism for sharing ideas, leveraging resources and breaking new ground. At Nottingham, we have partnerships with many other Universities in the UK and globally, including our path breaking Collaborative Agreement with the University of Birmingham; with Research Councils, most notably BBSRC and EPSRC; …
The Way of the Roses
May 10, 2012
Blog: Nottingham Life Cycle
The cycle route which traverses England from Morecambe to Bridlington is known as ‘The Way of the Roses’. It is 170 miles and, bar for a few miles in Cumbria, entirely in Lancashire and Yorkshire. Over the weekend of May 4/5/6, ten of the Life Cycle 2 riders took it on as a training run. …
New People, New Experiences, & a New Home
May 1, 2012
Blog: Malaysia Student Life
Happy May Day, from Malaysia! It’s been a pretty hectic week in the jungle, so let’s get started. As a result of my blog post last week, I was asked by one of the teachers at my old college to record a video for her students, about what I’m currently up to – and how …
Moral Reflection and Danish Cinema
May 1, 2012
Blog: Arts Matters
Films are capable of producing all variety of responses from their viewers. When they give us an insight into other people’s lives, real or fictional, they are particularly good at provoking empathy. Perhaps the immediacy of seeing someone’s face, be it only an actor, allows us to identify with the character and reflect on their …
I am a Bear of Very Little Brain
Blog: Ingenuity Business Blog
It almost goes without saying that Universities are stuffed full of very clever people. Even after five years in the University though I’m still excited to see a Nobel Prize winner in the carpark (he gets his own space!) Or stand in the cafe queue behind the eminent Chemistry Professor whose periodic table videos went …
A discussion about whether Hemingway actually wrote his famous six-word story. For more on Roland…
March 22, 2012
Blog: On learning to read
A discussion about whether Hemingway actually wrote his famous six-word story. For more on Roland Barthes’ concept of the writerly and readerly text, see his essay, From Work to Text, in the collection ‘Image, Music, Text’. Lydia Davis, ‘Collected Stories’, Hamish Hamilton. Donald Barthelme, ‘Some of us had been threatening our friend Colby’, taken from …
Professionalism and Financial Services
March 16, 2012
Blog: Financial Services Research Forum
I read Greg Smith’s by now infamous letter whilst working on a project that involved reflecting on the meaning of professionalism in financial services. The picture that Smith paints of a morally bankrupt, self-interested bank is largely at odds with what we understand to be the essence of professionalism. As many will know, the regulatory …
Perambulations with Pevsner: the local art treasures of Wollaton
January 31, 2012
Blog: Teaching Humanities
Gabriele Neher What is a perambulation? Apparently, it’s a leisurely walk with the purpose of looking and seeing. It implies poking about, taking your time, and taking in things to see. That is the OED definition, but in the hands of art historians, it takes on another meaning, too, and it becomes a recce, a …
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 …
Bringing a 3600 year old city back to life
October 14, 2011
Blog: Underwater archaeology
The Pavlopetri documentary we have been working on over the past year came out on BBC 2 on 8pm Sunday night (repeated on Wednesday 11.20pm). I hadn’t seen the final cut so I watched it for the first time along with everyone else with some nervousness – would I still have an academic career at …