So why should academics engage with the media?
December 3, 2014
“Sitting in your office, in glorious isolation, may well be safer and easier, but there’s a reason for that: it’s very dull.” So said Philip Cowley, Professor of Parliamentary Government and seasoned blogger, broadcaster and tweeter, at a workshop aimed at encouraging his fellow academics to share their expertise with the wider world. There may …
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, …
The green light for proxy war in Syria may come back to haunt EU
May 28, 2013
Dr Andrew Mumford is a lecturer in Politics and International Relations and the author of a new book Proxy Warfare, published by Polity. Here he discusses the potential impact of the EU’s decision to lift the arms embargo on Syria and, in effect, put externally supplied weapons into the hands of the country’s rebel forces. …
David Cameron’s Parliament to set rebellious record
May 16, 2013
A recent end-of-session report from the University of Nottingham has found that the current Parliament is on course to becoming the most rebellious Parliament since 1945. The research for this report, Cambo Chained or Dissension Amongst the Coalition’s Parliamentary Parties, 2012-2013: A Data Handbook, was led by Professor of Parliamentary Government Philip Cowley and Research Fellow …
Dr Matt Goodwin: Explaining the collapse of the BNP
March 16, 2013
What happened to Nick Griffin’s BNP? Following their performance at the 2010 general election, cited as the strongest performance of a British far right party in history, the British National Party has suffered a sharp decline in support, seeing a drop from over 240,000 votes for the BNP in 2008 to fewer than 26,000 in …
Barometer view on the Budget
May 9, 2012
Now the dust has settled and the headlines on the ‘granny tax’ and ‘pastygate’ have subsided, businesses are left to ponder the potential impact of the latest Budget on their future fortunes. The Business Barometer, an internet survey run by the University of Nottingham Institute for Enterprise and Innovation (UNIEI), regularly gauges the opinion of …
The Health & Social Care bill: The battle for implementation has begun
April 5, 2012
Professor Ian Shaw, from Nottingham’s School of Sociology and Social Policy, gives his professional view regarding the implementation of the Health & Social Care bill – and the resistance it is already facing. On 20 March, the day the Health and Social Care Bill was passed, I wrote a blog around the impact of the …
8-14 March: The big stories this week
March 15, 2012
Our top stories include broadcaster Matthew Bannister’s event-filled return to Nottingham to open our new Humanities Building, a Q&A with students, New Theatre visit and public lecture. We also reveal far-right supporters consider violence between different ethnic, religious and racial groups “largely inevitable”, and explain why roots grow down, not up. Read on for more …
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