University’s largest ever funding award for UK’s most powerful MRI scanner
June 23, 2022
Update from Professor Dame Jessica Corner The University of Nottingham, the birthplace of Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI), has received its largest ever funding award to establish the UK’s most powerful MRI scanner. The £29.1m award, from UK Research and Innovation (UKRI), will establish a national scanning facility to help the UK lead the world in …
Conducting ethical research remotely: a silver lining of learnings from the Covid-19 pandemic
June 20, 2022
Helen McCabe introduces the Remote Research Toolkit, built to help researchers overcome challenges such as the pandemic and engage with often vulnerable groups in ethical and innovative ways. At the end of 2019, our team were excitedly planning a project aimed at supporting survivors of human trafficking in Kenya to take control of their own …
Delivering select committee oral evidence: a personal reflection
March 18, 2019
Dr Andrew Mumford shares his experience of giving evidence on hybrid warfare to the House of Commons Defence Select Committee: On a grey Tuesday afternoon in early March I sat down in front of what looked like the toughest job interview panel you could ever imagine. A row of be-suited, bespectacled parliamentarians sat in front …
Professor Kevin Bales: how science can help end slavery
February 3, 2017
There are almost 46m slaves in the world today – more than at any time in history. It’s a shocking statistic. Yet Kevin Bales, Professor of Contemporary Slavery in the School of Politics and International Relations, says we are at a tipping point. Thanks to cutting-edge research, antislavery movements and campaigners have an unprecedented picture …
