2018 Global Slavery Index launches at the United Nations Headquarters
July 19, 2018
A team from the University of Nottingham has worked on the government response assessment for the new edition of the Global Slavery Index, which was launched today at the United Nations Headquarters in New York. Produced by the Walk Free Foundation, the Global Slavery Index provides data for measuring progress on achieving the United Nations’ …
How is the UK tackling the dirty world of the hand car wash?
June 29, 2018
Dr Akilah Jardine, a Research Associate in the Rights Lab, is carrying out research into hand car washes (HSWs). This type of set-up has attracted a lot of attention in the UK over recent months as investigations by law enforcement bodies have unearthed numerous labour, employment, health and safety, and environment violations. Here, Dr Jardine …
World leading experts on Asia come together in new institute
June 20, 2018
The University of Nottingham has launched an Asia Research Institute, bringing together its world-leading research and expertise on Asia. The aim of the Institute is to look at the major sustainable development challenges in Asia through engagement with practitioners and partners in the region. It also aims to increase dialogue with and to make an …
Nottingham Executive MBA graduates are flying high in global rankings
April 27, 2018
A new ranking to show the world’s top Executive MBA courses has included Nottingham University Business School for the first time. It also shows the majority of the school’s MBA graduates are women, bucking the trend of male dominated courses. In the QS (Quacquarelli Symonds) league table for 2018 the NUBS scored particularly highly against …
Slavery expert shortlisted for national award
April 16, 2018
Professor Kevin Bales CMG has been shortlisted for a national impact award for his international work in tackling modern slavery. Professor Bales, from the School of Politics and International Relations and the Rights Lab at the University of Nottingham, has been shortlisted for the 2018 Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) Celebrating Impact Prize. The …
New project will explore exploitation in hand car washes
March 29, 2018
A new collaborative study between the Rights Lab at the University of Nottingham and the UK’s Independent Anti-Slavery Commissioner (IASC) will look at labour exploitation in hand car washes. Hand car washes have been a high profile sector with numerous media reports describing endemic exploitation and modern slavery. However, as yet there is no definitive …
Nottingham Stands Against Slavery
March 16, 2018
Dr Alison Gardner from the Rights Lab at the University of Nottingham has picked up a national award for her work in helping to tackle modern slavery in Nottingham. Dr Gardner received the Marsh Award for Community Activism in Combating Slavery for an event she ran at the University last June, in partnership with Unchosen, …
New award for research into how arts and humanities can improve health and wellbeing
March 15, 2018
One of the newest fields of research in the world is to get its own national award thanks to the AHRC, Wellcome and the Nottingham professor who pioneered the subject. Professor Paul Crawford is the first Professor of Health Humanities in the world. His field is defined as the application of the arts and humanities …
Many UK boardrooms blind to opportunity, warns report
March 14, 2018
Boards conditioned to play safe rather than embrace opportunity Efforts to “create certainty” overlook scope to enhance performance Narrow outlook partially fuelled by fear that dissent isn’t welcome Britain’s boardrooms may be impairing the UK’s economic potential by habitually viewing risk only in terms of threats rather than in terms of opportunities, a new report …
Nottingham subjects continue to be among the best in the world
March 1, 2018
Subjects taught at The University of Nottingham are once again among the best in the world according to a new league table. This year’s ‘QS World University Rankings by Subject’, features Nottingham in the top 150 in 39 of the 43 subjects surveyed. The ranking also features 23 Nottingham subjects in the global top 100, …
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