Tinnitus Awareness Week: Nottingham’s research into this chronic hearing condition
February 9, 2016
To mark Tinnitus Awareness Week Professor Deborah Hall, Director of the National Institute for Health Research Nottingham Hearing Biomedical Research Unit, discusses the international research which she and her team are undertaking into this chronic hearing condition. This year is the tenth anniversary of Tinnitus Awareness Week, which is taking place from 8-14 February 2016. Tinnitus is …
Open Access opens doors
February 8, 2016
From 1 April, researchers will need to have their articles available through Open Access within three months of acceptance to be eligible for the next REF. To make it quicker and easier for researchers to store publications in our ePrints repository, LRLR have launched a mediated deposit service. Read about the benefits of Open Access, according to …
Transformative Technologies – changing people’s lives for the better
January 22, 2016
Q&A with Professor Neil Champness, Global Research Theme Lead for Transformative Technologies. This is the second of our monthly academic profiles of our five Global Research Theme (GRT) leads, for you to find out who they are, their research and what it means to lead one of the University’s five Global Research Themes. Read our …
A warm hello from Professor Dame Jessica Corner
January 11, 2016
In this blog post, Professor Dame Jessica Corner DBE introduces herself as the University’s new Pro-Vice-Chancellor for Research and Knowledge Exchange. I’d like to extend a warm hello to all University of Nottingham staff and students as I take up my new position as Pro-Vice-Chancellor for Research and Knowledge Exchange. The University is internationally recognised …
Research project studies tic ‘habits’ in children with Tourette Syndrome
January 6, 2016
Academics at the University have embarked on a two-year research project (LoTUS) aimed at further understanding how tics develop – and become difficult to overcome – in children with Tourette Syndrome (TS). Led by Professor Georgina Jackson in the Institute of Mental Health, the work is funded with a £97,651 grant from the national charity …
Monetising music
December 17, 2015
The Melbourne suburb of Brunswick, located 6 km north of the city centre, has a history of radical politics, ethnic and cultural diversity and also hosts the annual Brunswick Music Festival. In that sense it is appropriate setting in which to find Wick Studios, a space dedicated to the musical economy in its various forms. …
Beyond counting the edges
December 15, 2015
Paul Crawford, Professor of Health Humanities in the School of Health Sciences and Director of the Centre for Social Futures at the Institute of Mental Health, discusses why we need to move towards a more compassionate research culture in Higher Education. It is important that research does not become merely an elite activity for the few in Higher …
Global Research Theme Lead Professor Georgina Endfield
December 9, 2015
Q&A with Professor Georgina Endfield, Global Research Theme Lead for Sustainable Societies. World-class research doesn’t happen by accident. It happens at The University of Nottingham because we put research excellence at the heart of what we do. The size and scope of global challenges pose critical questions which academics research to directly impact the lives …
Dementia – what does it mean to you?
November 9, 2015
Written by Justine Schneider, Professor of Mental Health and Social Care at The University of Nottingham, reflecting on the recent Dementia: testing knowledge event at the University of Cambridge and the play Inside Out of Mind. I am nearly 58 and recently went online to calculate my life expectancy. The first website put my age …
Dementia in the workplace
October 26, 2015
By Justine Schneider, Professor of Mental Health and Social Care at The University of Nottingham. ‘People may continue working to 100’ said the radio today. While politicians, writers and musicians are notable for their long working lives, this news may give astute employers pause for thought in the light of the growing rate of dementia …
