Typhoon Yolanda – 2 years on and what the future holds
November 9, 2015
A team of researchers from The University of Nottingham in Ningbo and the UK and the University of the Philippines are in Leyte looking at poverty alleviation following the devastating typhoon Yolanda that hit the Philippines two years ago. They will spend the next two years assessing the effectiveness of the rehabilitation and livelihood strategies in …
Nottingham professors back e-petition for brain tumour research funding
November 3, 2015
Experts at The University of Nottingham are backing an online petition calling for an increase in funding for research into brain tumours, with the hope of seeing the issue discussed by MPs. Professors David Walker and Richard Grundy, Co-Directors of the University’s Children’s Brain Tumour Research Centre (CBTRC) are urging members of the public to sign the e-petition …
Give it a tug and feel it grow
October 21, 2015
Children and teenagers discovered that you can’t always believe everything you see — or feel — when they were tricked by an illusion as part of a University research project. The study, led by academics in the School of Psychology, used a system called MIRAGE — real-time video capture of the participants’ hand and computer …
Funding for gel that mimics human breast tissue
October 19, 2015
The University has been awarded grant funding of more than £400,000 to develop a gel that will match many of the biological structures of human breast tissue. The development, being led by new Nottingham academic Dr Cathy Merry in the School of Medicine, aims to advance cancer research while reducing the need for animal testing. …
Calling all EPSRC science photographers
October 13, 2015
Do you have an eye for imagery that captures the scientific weird and wonderful or those Eureka moments? Would you like to share your photos to support excellence and promote outstanding UK engineering and physical sciences research? If so you might want to take part in the EPSRC 2015 Science Photo Competition. Launched today it runs …
Home is not always the best or preferred place to die, argues expert
October 8, 2015
The widely held belief that home is the best and preferred place of death is questioned by one of our academics writing in The BMJ this week. The UK government has marked ‘place of death’ as a key indicator for the quality of end of life care. This is based on the idea that most …
Have your cake and rate it!
As 13 million of us sat down to watch the final of the Great British Bake Off 2015 last night two academics at The University of Nottingham were putting the final touches to a cake survey – all in the name of research of course! Khaled Bachour and Nils Jaeger in the School of Computer Science …
Research in the School of Geography makes ‘Top 20 in the UK’
October 1, 2015
Research by the School of Geography has been included in a list of Top 20 Impact Stories from REF2014. The UK Collaborative on Development Sciences (UKCDS) has included the School’s research on global climate change as one of the strongest in the UK in terms of impact on international development because it shows ‘how UK …
On a mission to prepare humans for Mars
September 4, 2015
In August 2015, Simone Paternostro – an Early Stage Researcher on the Marie Curie Project ‘Innovate‘ based in the Institute for Aerospace Technology (IAT) at The University of Nottingham – took part in a two-week Mars simulation mission on a rock glacier in the Kaunertaler Glacier in Austria. Simone – a positioning and navigation specialist in the …
How shared reading could be helping to bring back memories for people with dementia
August 13, 2015
A book is a truly magical thing. It has the ability to transport you to another time or place and to instantly evoke memories of where and when you first perused a particular paperback or finished a favourite novel. Now, a new partnership between The University of Nottingham and Nottingham City Council is harnessing the …
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