Has Sepp Blatter lost his moral authority? Following the FIFA president’s fifth re-election, Professor Stephen Mumford asks if the footballing power player has lost control of his followers.
June 2, 2015
There is something noble about sport that is worth preserving. As Bernard Suits argues in The Grasshopper (Broadview Press, 3rd edn 2014), ‘The playing of games involves a voluntary attempt to overcome unnecessary obstacles’. That we participate willingly suggests that we think there is something of intrinsic value in playing. We are also interested in …
Insects: A solution for Global Food Security?
May 29, 2015
For many people in the UK the idea of eating insects remains the in the realms of the popular reality show, ‘I’m a Celebrity Get Me Out Of Here’. However, worldwide, insects represent an integral part of the diet of over two billion people. Not only can they provide much needed energy, they offer a …
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 …
Shaping the interwar world
May 7, 2015
A new study will look at how governments and institutions from around the globe tried to reshape the world between the two world wars via the medium of explicitly international conferences. Academics from The University of Nottingham’s School of Geography have been awarded a grant of £721,000 from the Arts and Humanities Research Council to …
Showing the rest how it’s done – Nottingham gets involved in Responsible Business Week
April 22, 2015
On Thursday 23 April the International Centre for Corporate Social Responsibility (ICCSR) and Nottingham University Business School will be showing how companies can be responsible employers. The University partners will be hosting ‘Wellness in the Workplace’ in partnership with Business in the Community. This is the first time that the University has hosted this major …
Red Ed’s Manifesto? Professor Steven Fielding looks at Labour’s manifesto
April 13, 2015
Political manifestoes are infamously fallible guides as to what a party will actually do if it wins office. That is especially true in these uncertain times when policies might have to be traded away as the price of forming a coalition government. But a manifesto can still tell us something about what a party stands …
Is Nick Clegg a hero? read Professor Steven Fielding’s review of the Channel 4 drama – The Coalition
March 30, 2015
During the week in which the election 2015 campaign really kicks off, Steven Fielding, Professor of of Political History, looks at the Channel 4 television drama by James Graham, which aired on Saturday 28 March. ‘The Coalition’ focuses on the five frenetic days between the 2010 election result and the formation ofBritain’s first post-war coalition …
And the winner is…? Just exactly who came out fighting in the first televised election battle – Professor Steven Fielding gives his views
March 27, 2015
In one corner, the old school pro, whose reputation precedes them and who can do no more than repeat their long-established, hammy, act. In the other, a plucky outsider many ridicule for being amateurish and simply not up to the job. But enough of Jeremy Paxman and Kay Burley, who hosted The Battle for Number …
National Centre for Sport and Exercise Medicine accredited as International Olympic Committee research centre
December 18, 2014
The National Centre for Sport and Exercise Medicine (NCSEM) has been named as an International Olympic Committee (IOC) Research Centre for Prevention of Injury and Protection of Athlete Health– one of just nine around the world. The IOC has identified the protection of athletes’ health and the prevention of injuries and illness in sport as …
Nottingham makes its debut on Embarrassing Bodies
July 3, 2014
Tonight sees the first episode of the new series of the hit Channel 4 show – Embarrassing Bodies, and for the first time – scientists from the University will feature (in a purely academic way of course). During two days of filming earlier this year, the crew from the show visited the University to speak to …
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