Inside Out of Mind – a powerful illustration of life on a dementia ward
June 24, 2013
So it was a normal Thursday morning in the press office. I was writing something, probably a blog, when I got a phone call from my manager who was on her way to see the Inside Out of Mind play at Lakeside. She had done a lot of work on promoting the production so was …
‘Top universities have become less representative’…well ours hasn’t
June 21, 2013
There has been a lot of media attention recently regarding reports which claim that the UK’s top universities have become less socially representative. I started seeing this headline all over the place and it stirred my interest. So I decided to do a bit of digging. I came across one article which provided the following …
Picturing Politics: Thomas More’s Utopia
June 20, 2013
Picturing Politics, a blog produced by the School of Politics and International Relations at the University of Nottingham is host to a series of audio and video clips featuring academics commenting on the political significance of a diverse range of images. The fifth post in the series by Dr Lucy Sargisson looks at the map …
June 18, 2013
Michael Domokos, Senior Project Manager for Corporate Systems at the University, is undertaking a charity challenge that would leave even the very fittest saddle-sore… What made me sign up to something that would see my cycle 3,000 miles, climb 150,000ft (the equivalent of cycling up Everest 5 times) in the worst weather that we have …
Picturing Politics: the Zapatista struggle
June 13, 2013
Picturing Politics, a blog produced by the School of Politics and International Relations at the University of Nottingham is host to a series of audio and video clips featuring academics commenting on the political significance of a diverse range of images. The fourth post features Dr Adam Morton who examines the struggle of the Zapatistas, …
UK students are urged to rate their lecturers
June 12, 2013
‘Rate My Professor’ a website used in the US for students to rate their professors on the grounds of their teaching is the largest online destination for these kinds of rankings. Over 4 million students are using this site each month from the US, Canada and even the UK. Now, a UK equivalent ‘Rate my …
Why is everyone so annoyed with me?
June 11, 2013
A recent opinion piece by a Nottingham academic in the New York Times on whether literature can help us to become better human beings has sparked fierce debate across the internet. Professor Gregory Currie, of the Department of Philosophy, looks at the arguments for and against and why his editorial has caused passions to run …
Whedon brings geek chic to Shakespeare
June 10, 2013
Joss Whedon’s eagerly-anticipated screen-adaptation of Shakespeare’s romantic comedy Much Ado About Nothing opens at cinemas this week. Culture, Film and Media student Leora Hadas looks at who’s likely to be the biggest draw at the box office — the Bard or the self-styled King of Geeks. Joss Whedon has chosen an interesting way to bookend …
An urgency to dematerialise the future
June 7, 2013
The United Nations Environment Programme has reported that by 2010 industrial civilisation was eating its way through 50 billion tonnes of minerals, ores, fossil fuels and biomass every year and if nothing changes, by 2050, this will almost triple to 140 billion tonnes every year. Much attention today is being focused on using fewer resources …
Picturing Politics: the 1997 Labour manifesto
June 6, 2013
Picturing Politics, a blog produced by the School of Politics and International Relations at the University of Nottingham is host to a series of audio and video clips featuring academics commenting on the political significance of a diverse range of images. The third post features Professor Steven Fielding discussing the rise of party leaders and …
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