Knowledge Exchange, Impact and Media Awards 2016 – entries are open
January 5, 2016
Entries are open for the 2016 Knowledge Exchange and Impact Awards – they close on 20 February. Details on how to enter can be found on the awards website. The awards dinner will take place on Thursday 5 May. There are ten awards this year including two new ‘Media Awards’. Vice-Chancellor, Professor Sir David Greenaway, …
Trust Me, I’m a Press Officer!
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 …
Nit-picking idea scoops top business prize
December 16, 2015
A team of enterprising scientists from the School of Pharmacy who have devised a way to detect and treat head lice, have scooped top prize in a business competition for biotechnology start-up companies. The Biotechnology Young Entrepreneurs Scheme (YES) sees early-career researchers from biosciences develop skills and learn about taking their research into the marketplace. It …
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 …
Monitoring the climate change talks
December 10, 2015
Academics at The University of Nottingham have been keeping a close watch on the climate change talks in Paris. Brigitte Nerlich, Professor of Science, Language and Society, and Dr Warren Pearce, a Research Fellow on the University of Nottingham’s Making Science Public programme are part of an international team covering the summit with their Media Watch Blog: http://www.climatematters.hamburg/media-watch-blog/about-our-blog/ Meet …
Nottingham academic experiences life at Westminster
December 7, 2015
Research Fellow in Neuroimaging at the University of Nottingham, Rebecca Dewey, recently returned from a week at the House of Commons in Westminster. The visit in November was part of a unique pairing scheme run by the Royal Society – the UK’s national academy of science – with support from the Government Office for Science. During …
Hold the front page! New awards to recognise media engagement.
December 4, 2015
Entries are now open for the 2016 Knowledge Exchange and Impact Awards. This year two new ‘media awards’ are included in the line up. The ‘media awards’ have been established to recognise the contribution made by academics who successfully use the media – print, broadcast, online, social – to inform and educate and even entertain …
‘Call to Action’ on agricultural diversity and feeding a ‘hotter’ world
On Monday, Paris will be the venue for a ‘call to action’ on agricultural diversification `to feed a hotter world’. It will be one of the many events taking place in Paris alongside the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change. Scientists from Crops for the Future (CFF) and partners, including The University of Nottingham …
BBC’s new ‘Tomorrow’s Food’ series checks out Nottingham’s X-ray vision for the future of our crops
November 19, 2015
BBC One – 9pm Monday 23 November – Dara O Briain one of the presenters of ‘Tomorrow’s Food’ looks in on the Hounsfield Facility. The Hounsfield Facility at The University of Nottingham is home to three state of the art 3D microCT (X-ray) scanners and a multidisciplinary team of experts who use non-destructive technologies and …
Antimicrobial resistance – the search for new collaborative research projects
November 16, 2015
A total of £368,000 is on offer to University of Nottingham researchers who can help to devise interdisciplinary research projects into antimicrobial resistance (AMR). The World Health Organization (WHO) – staging its World Antibiotic Awareness Week this week – says this increasingly serious global threat to the effective treatment and prevention of a growing number of …
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