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 …
Celebrating the beauty of the earth through art
November 10, 2015
A community event at Sutton Bonington campus is to bring together art and science in a celebration of the natural world. The Vet School will be throwing open its doors to the public from 9am to 2pm today (Wednesday November 11) for the event taking place in The Atrium, which will be based on the theme …
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 …
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. …
Vet School teacher is ‘Top social media influencer’
October 15, 2015
Associate Professor Liz Mossop from the Vet School has been named as a ‘top social media influencer’ by the social technology body JISC. Liz has already won two Dearing Awards for her outstanding teaching here and has been pioneering the use of social media in her role leading undergraduate teaching and assessment, to great effect. …
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 …
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 …
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