How the Cascade funded Lakeside Literacy project inspired me to teach…
December 11, 2013
Written by Abigail Blaylock When I was small, I had this favourite picture from The Wind in the Willows. It was of Mole, Ratty, Badger and Toad having a picnic in the middle of a hollow tree. For children, hollow trees were everywhere, in the chronicles of Narnia, for the Famous Five to hide in, for …
Malaysian Rainforest Project
November 20, 2013
Biology student James Mudie took part in a trip to the tropical rainforests of the Krau Wildlife Reserve, Malaysia this summer. While he was there he assisted with research into the agriculture carried out by local people and its impact on forest regeneration. Funded thanks to donations from alumni and friends to the Cascade fund, …
Art in the Asylum
October 24, 2013
Thanks to a Cascade fund grant of £10,000, students are learning more about mental health and creative activities which enhance mental well-being through the current exhibition at the Djanogly Art Gallery ‘Art in the Asylum’. Final year medical student Chantal Pearman tells us about her experience of visiting the exhibition. “My visit to the Djanogly …
When volunteering is a good idea….
September 27, 2013
Alumna Clare Harvey, Creative Writing 2012, reflects on her involvement this year with the Lakeside Literacy Project which has been supported by the University’s Cascade fund. So, you’re doing a full-time masters, wading through all that reading and writing and meanwhile your husband is on a six-month operational tour of duty in Afghanistan and so …
A Focus on Nature
September 10, 2013
Alumna, naturalist and Creative Director of her own company, Lucy McRobert graduated in 2012 winning prizes for her dissertation and building a platform for a career as an environmental historian. Now, just a year later she’s taken it upon herself to set up a prize in her company’s name to reward academic excellence and to …
The life and times of a Student Caller
April 24, 2013
By Christopher Hallett (Geography) This term was my first campaign working as a student caller. I found talking to alumni provided a refreshing insight into life after university and I was particularly stimulated by the broad range of alumni I spoke to, both in age and discipline. Often we are matched to our own subjects and interests so that the …
Best Food Market 2012!
December 12, 2012
By John Coffield (English Language & Literature 2011) I went to Sutton Bonington campus, otherwise known as ‘the farm’ thanks to its faraway location and the subjects taught there, for the first time earlier this week (Wednesday 5th December). I was there for a couple of hours and returned carrying 18 sausages, a hunk of …
Ghana Volunteers
October 25, 2012
By Rachel Third While we were lapping up the Olympic fever this summer in the UK, a team of University of Nottingham students were busy realising dreams of their own, thousands of miles away from home. With a grant from the University’s Cascade fund, a team of 54 students committed themselves wholeheartedly to the community …
NUStream hydro project
August 28, 2012
25 students from the University are currently undertaking a trip of a lifetime to provide renewable energy to a remote fishing village in Malawi. The three-week trip, partially funded by the University’s Cascade fund, will give the students from the Department of Engineering and the Nottingham University Business School the opportunity to put the skills …
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