Posts by Emma Rayner
Sex, bugs and rock n’roll — University ecologist hits Glastonbury
June 23, 2016
There’s no shortage of mud at Glastonbury this week so The University of Nottingham’s Open Air Laboratories Community Scientist is in her element bringing soil science and other ecological messages to festival goers. Dr Sarah Pierce from the School of Life Sciences is part of a team of experts from the British Ecological Society taking their …
Notts MP shadows our scientist for a day
April 4, 2016
Last November, Research Fellow in neuroimaging, Dr Rebecca Dewey, left her lab to spend a week at the House of Commons shadowing Notts MP Lilian Greenwood as part of a Royal Society Pairing Scheme. Now the MP has had her return match, by spending a day in the lab in Nottingham to see for herself the …
The Ancientbiotics project – a new chapter
March 23, 2016
Exactly a year ago, Dr Freya Harrison from our Centre for Biomolecular Sciences, gave a talk at the Annual Conference of the Microbiology Society in Birmingham and lit the blue touch paper on a news story which went global within a few hours. Freya’s talk was about the rediscovery she and her colleagues, Dr Steve …
Weighing things up with The One Show
March 1, 2016
Physiology experts in the Division of Medical Sciences and Graduate Medicine have been helping BBC TV’s The One Show solve a domestic mystery – how accurate are our bathroom scales? Dr Beth Phillips agreed to help the popular primetime show investigate five different, newly bought domestic bathroom scales, along with three keen and sporty students …
Cancer experts say more work needed to test benefits of proton beam therapy
February 4, 2016
Professor David Walker from our Children’s Brain Tumour Research Centre is among a group of UK paediatric oncologists to caution that recent media reports have exaggerated the results of an American study of the benefits of proton beam radiotherapy in children with medulloblastoma. The team of leading experts are part of the Children’s Cancer and Leukaemia Group …
Christmas Brain Tumour Research Campaign smashes target
January 15, 2016
The Children’s Brain Tumour Research Centre has smashed its target in its Christmas fundraising appeal. The Centre, which treats children from all over the East Midlands and beyond, was hoping to raise £50,000 in its December campaign and today a cheque for an impressive £62,932 was handed over to co-director Professor David Walker. It means …
Trust Me, I’m a Press Officer!
January 5, 2016
It can never be said that the work of a university press officer is not varied! Occasionally we’re asked to promote clinical trials that may be struggling to recruit but this time I thought I’d go the extra mile and volunteer for one myself as time was short. The BBC’s flagship TV health programme ‘Trust …
We need to talk about the menopause
December 11, 2015
The Chief Medical Officer Professor Dame Sally Davies has called on bosses to be more aware of the menopause and the problems it can cause for some women in the workplace. A chapter in her annual report ‘The Health of the 51%’ out today highlights the research of Amanda Griffiths, Professor of Occupational Health Psychology from …
Physiotherapy and sport rehabilitation students raise money for Cardiac Risk in the Young
November 17, 2015
Physiotherapy and sport rehabilitation students at The University of Nottingham have been working as house cleaners, sports massage therapists and even butlers to raise vital funds for a charity that helps young people diagnosed with life-threatening cardiac conditions and bereaved families. The campaign is in memory of Alexandra Reid, daughter of a physiotherapy lecturer in …
Vet School teacher is ‘Top social media influencer’
October 15, 2015
Associate Professor Liz Mossop from the Vet School has been named as a ‘top social media influencer’ by the social technology body JISC. Liz has already won two Dearing Awards for her outstanding teaching here and has been pioneering the use of social media in her role leading undergraduate teaching and assessment, to great effect. …
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