Podcasting Professor’s sound evidence on human rights
December 10, 2015
Human rights researcher Professor Todd Landman has chosen International Human Rights Day to launch a Nuffield Foundation funded project that aims to share and promote the hard facts about human rights through podcasting.
Companion animal ownership: new book explores the ethics
November 12, 2015
We’re a nation of animal lovers and it’s estimated that around around 12m households in the UK are also home to a family pet. They offer us constant companionship and, evidence suggests, even health benefits such as lower blood pressure and stress levels. But when it comes to the animals we own, do we always …
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 …
Britain’s Forgotten Slave Owners
October 9, 2015
Katie Donington is currently a Research Associate on the Antislavery Usable Past project in the Department of American and Canadian Studies at The University of Nottingham, and is Co-director of the Centre for Research in Race and Rights. In this blog, she looks forward to an upcoming event with David Olusoga on Monday 12 October. …
Academics and PhD students go behind the scenes at the BBC
September 18, 2015
A big thank you to the BBC – particularly Jo Davies from BBC Radio Nottingham and weather forecaster Anna Church – for a fascinating tour of the BBC in Nottingham last night. The visit was arranged by the University’s Media Relations team for the winners of the press release writing competition which was held earlier …
‘Remarkable’ new history of Radicals in America
August 6, 2015
The first complete and continuous history of left-wing social movements in the United States from the Second World War to the present has been written by an American historian at The University of Nottingham. Published on the eve of the first official presidential debate which takes place in Cleveland, Ohio today, Radicals in America is …
250,000 University of Nottingham graduates
July 16, 2015
The 250,000th graduate of The University of Nottingham received her degree on Friday 17 July, at a ceremony presided over by Vice-Chancellor, Professor Sir David Greenaway. Victoria Rowley, 23 from Wickford in Essex, was awarded a first class LLB Hons Law on the final day of this year’s summer graduation at the East Midlands Conference Centre, …
It’s hot, hot, hot! But ’twas ever thus!
July 3, 2015
As we sizzle in this week’s high temperatures it is worth remembering that heat waves have always been a feature of the British summer. And it is worth having a read of some of the archives currently being brought together by a team of experts led by The University of Nottingham. The Extreme Weather team …
Has Sepp Blatter lost his moral authority? Following the FIFA president’s fifth re-election, Professor Stephen Mumford asks if the footballing power player has lost control of his followers.
June 2, 2015
There is something noble about sport that is worth preserving. As Bernard Suits argues in The Grasshopper (Broadview Press, 3rd edn 2014), ‘The playing of games involves a voluntary attempt to overcome unnecessary obstacles’. That we participate willingly suggests that we think there is something of intrinsic value in playing. We are also interested in …
The Mediterranean crisis – is not like the slave trade.
May 20, 2015
An open letter signed by more than 250 academics and experts on slavery and migration from around the globe, has condemned the EU’s efforts to prevent migrants from leaving the North African coast saying this does not constitute a noble stand against the evil of slavery, or even against ‘trafficking’. In fact, they say, the …
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