The Great Debate – Professor Todd Landman reviews last night’s battle between Clinton and Trump
September 27, 2016
This week is one of the most awaited in the calendar for the US presidential campaign. The primaries are over and have produced the two main candidates and their running mates, the conventions have sought to solidify support and unify the messages for each party, and the summer months have been spent on the campaign …
The UK’s approach to tackling corruption overseas examined by Nottingham expert
April 7, 2016
Paul Heywood, Sir Francis Hill Professor of European Politics at The University of Nottingham, has given evidence at the International Development Committee’s tackling corruption overseas inquiry. Professor Heywood is leading the British Academy/DFID Anti-corruption Evidence (ACE) partnership, a £3.6 million initiative to support leading international research teams to research and identify the most successful ways …
A new literary play by a Nottingham academic explores witchcraft trials
March 24, 2016
The world-premiere of a play written by Brean Hammond, Emeritus Professor in the School of English, will take place at St Andrews’ Byre Theatre, St Andrews, in Fife this week. Noted playwright and Nottingham academic Professor Hammond, has written Ben and Jamie, which combines real events from the era to create a thriller involving witchcraft, King James VI, a poisoning …
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. …
UNESCO education report unveiled at World Education Forum in Korea
May 27, 2015
Former Prime Ministers Gordon Brown (UK) and Julia Gillard (Australia) were among panelists at the recent World Education Forum 2015, debating recommendations in a new UNESCO report, co-chaired by an education expert from the University of Nottingham. Other high profile delegates among the 1500global education leaders, ministers, policy-makers, UN agencies and teachers at the four-day event, which was held …
Introducing ‘The Barn’
February 4, 2015
Students at the Sutton Bonington campus are enjoying the newly developed amenities building, which will now be known as The Barn. The Barn is set at the heart of the Sutton Bonington campus and includes a dining hall, common room, graduate centre, faith rooms, student services and a range of other facilities over three floors. …
World-class research recognised
December 18, 2014
The University of Nottingham is a leading international institution carrying out world-class research,according to the Research Excellence Framework (REF) 2014. Nottingham is ranked 8th in the UK on a measure of ‘research power’, which takes into account both the quality of research and the number of research-active staff who made REF returns. More than …
University chaplain on BBC’s ‘Barely Legal Drivers’.
May 23, 2014
Take to the road on Monday night with University Chaplain Revd John Bentham. He’ll be appearing on the BBC Three series ‘Barely Legal Drivers‘ – the programme that films young drivers behind the wheel of the family car while they are totally unaware that their every move is being filmed by hidden cameras and watched …
Top 10 place for Nottingham in national poll of student experience
May 15, 2014
The University of Nottingham has entered the top 10 in a national survey asking students to rate their higher education experience. The Times Higher Education (THE) Student Experience Survey is an annual survey based on responses from more than 14,000 full-time undergraduate students across the UK and provides an alternative picture of student satisfaction to …
So life-like it’s virtually alive
January 13, 2014
How do you tell if something is alive? The answer to this question should be fairly obvious, but a computer controlled starfish created by a Nottingham PhD student shows that reality isn’t always what it seems. Whilst Richard Brown was a Research Fellow at the Royal College of Art, he created the computer-controlled installation called …
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