Showing the rest how it’s done – Nottingham gets involved in Responsible Business Week
On Thursday 23 April the International Centre for Corporate Social Responsibility (ICCSR) and Nottingham University Business School will be showing how companies can be responsible employers. The University partners will be hosting ‘Wellness in the Workplace’ in partnership with Business in the Community. This is the first time that the University has hosted this major …
Experience life as a science journalist – deadline tomorrow!
April 2, 2015
There are just a few hours left to apply for a funded place on the British Science Association’s Media Fellowship Scheme. Deadline tomorrow. If you have a real enthusiasm for science communication – and can give examples to support this – then read on. Additional info you might find useful: This scheme is for practising scientists. …
THAT dress!
February 27, 2015
White and gold, blue and black? Who is seeing the actual colours of that dress? It’s been a huge talking point on social media since its release and now we’re taking up the colour conundrums in person. “It’s blue, how can you think it’s white?” a colleague asked whilst holding up various coloured items to …
The Grandest views
January 15, 2015
As inhabitants of our 21st century world it’s almost unthinkable for us to imagine an age when seeing the rolling hills of the British landscape laid out like a patchwork quilt below would have been as alien as the surface of the moon. These days while we need only glance out of the window of …
Appeal to prevent the extinction of the Sumatran Rhino
December 17, 2014
A leading conservationist has made an urgent appeal to the authorities of Malaysia and Indonesia to collaborate in the conservation of the Sumatran Rhino. In his talk streamed from the University of Nottingham’s campus in Malaysia to University Park in UK, Dr John Payne, Executive Director of the Borneo Rhino Alliance (BORA), told his audiences …
New book tracks women’s business aspirations
November 24, 2014
A Nottingham academic has tracked the career trajectories of 17 women from the recession-hit Britain of the 90s to the recession-hit Britain of today in a new book. Professor Laurie Cohen, of Nottingham University Business School, spoke to Woman’s Hour on BBC Radio 4 on Friday about her study which has led to the book, …
Legal compliance podbriefings
November 11, 2014
The University of Nottingham has created a series of videos designed to inform and raise awareness of important legal topics and issues of compliance amongst university staff. Each video contains an interview with a practising lawyer who is an expert in the relevant field and who explains the law (current at the time of filming) …
Oscar Pistorius sentenced to five years in jail for culpable homicide – Bill Dixon, Professor of Criminology
October 21, 2014
Oscar Pistorius has finally been sentenced, to what his judge described as “a sentence that is fair and just, both to society and to the accused”: for the culpable homicide of Reeva Steenkamp, he will serve a prison term of five years. For a firearms offence of which he was also found guilty, he received …
Young voices ignored
September 2, 2014
Experts from a University-based charity have said that inter-agency communication is the key to preventing cases of child sexual exploitation (CSE) in the wake of the Rotherham abuse scandal. Last night’s BBC Panorama programme, Stolen Lives: The Grooming Scandal, investigated the widespread sexual abuse which has devastated the lives of at least 1,400 children in …
The taming of the beast – Professor Wyn Morgan looks at the reasons behind Tesco’s profit fall
April 22, 2015
Tesco’s reported loss of over £6bn has exemplified the significant changes that have occurred in recent years for the company and for retailing as a whole. Tesco has been seen as a behemoth in retailing: growing market share at the expense of its rivals especially post the introduction of the Tesco Clubcard. Even the recession …
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