Lindsay Brooke
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Taking shelter in Nottingham city centre
February 7, 2013
Architecture students from The University of Nottingham have constructed their pavilion built from shipping pallets in Market Square, Nottingham. The creative and sustainable way of helping us shelter from the elements is the work of 2nd year students in the Department of Architecture and Built Environment. Originally built for this year’s Ecobuild Exhibition – the world’s …
Walking on the wild side
January 29, 2013
Environmental historian, Dr Rob Lambert, has been appointed Vice-President of the Isles of Scilly Wildlife Trust. This honour for Dr Lambert, who lectures at The University of Nottingham on Tourism and the Environment, follows his appointment as one of the national ‘Ambassadors’ for the wider Wildlife Trusts movement in Britain which has over 800,000 members. …
Your votes needed for archaeological research project of the year
January 3, 2013
The Caistor Roman Project has been nominated for Research Project of the Year in the Current Archaeology Awards 2013. The dig just outside Norwich in Norfolk, has changed our understanding of Caistor – the Roman town of Venta Icenorum. Led by Dr Will Bowden in the Department of Archaeology at The University of Nottingham, the dig …
The Last Battle of the Vikings
December 12, 2012
After his BBC debut in ‘Pavlopetri – The City Beneath the Waves’ – underwater archaeologist Dr Jon Henderson returned to his roots this summer to present ‘The Last Battle of the Vikings’ for BBC Scotland. There are plans to make the programme available on BBC iPlayer for a network audience. Dr Henderson’s research into the …
Creating a blueprint to save Malaysia’s endangered elephants
November 30, 2012
Experts from The University of Nottingham Malaysia Campus (UNMC) are attending the first meeting of its kind to create a blueprint for saving Malaysia’s endangered wild elephants. Dr Ahimsa Camps-Arceiz, who is leading a five year research project into the management and ecology of Malaysian elephants (MEME), said: “This is a significant development into safeguarding …
Seeing the world through the eyes of an orangutan
November 27, 2012
A captive bred Sumatran orangutan and a University of Nottingham neuroscientist in Malaysia have joined forces to explain some of the mysteries of the visual brain and improve the lives of captive bred animals. Tsunami is a seven year old orangutan who has been trained to wear special eye tracking equipment so her eye and …
Heston says yes, biscuits taste better when they are dunked
November 20, 2012
Food experts at The University of Nottingham have helped Heston Blumenthal scientifically answer a question that has bothered him since childhood — yes, chocolate biscuits do taste better after they’ve been dunked in tea. Now he wants to produce an academic paper on the subject. The team from the Division of Food Sciences in the …
Special blog to mark 18th Communist Party Congress in Beijing
October 30, 2012
Who will emerge as the top 300 men and women in the Chinese government over the next five years? To what extent will the Communist Party embrace political and economic reforms as it faces mounting challenges to its authority? And what early clues can be gleaned on the identity of China’s future leaders already earmarked …
What do Malaysian elephants think about being caught on camera?
October 29, 2012
A video recorded in the forest of Peninsular Malaysia has shown how one group of elephants reacted when they discovered they had been framed! Elephants aren’t particularly keen on being caught on camera and have a reputation for damaging camera traps. This footage, shot by a hidden camera belonging to the research project MEME – …
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