Posts categorised as ‘Issue 57’
Professor sticks his oar in
Hurtling along the Thames in the dead of night is not everyone’s idea of a good time. But that’s exactly what Professor Kevin Shakesheff is doing to raise money for Children’s Brain Tumour Research (CBTR).
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Tags: Children’s Brain Tumour Research, David Bache, Nottingham: The Impact Campaign, Professor Kevin Shakesheff, The Children’s Brain Tumour Research Centre
The changing face of British politics
A prestigious exhibition at the People’s History Museum in Manchester being curated by a politics student has attracted more than 26,000 visitors so far.
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Tags: Arts and Humanities Research Council, Chris Burgess, Matthew Parris, People’s History Museum, Picturing Politics: Exploring the Political Poster in Britain
Paying the price for poor grasp of finances
Consumers with poor financial skills pay over the odds for loans and are eight times more likely to use expensive credit such as payday loans, new research has revealed.
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Tags: debt, Dr John Gathergood, Professor Richard Disney, School of Economics
A year of success
Against a backdrop of the most challenging time in UK higher education for a generation, a landmark collaboration agreement between the universities of Nottingham and Birmingham is celebrating a successful first year.
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Tags: applications of Hydrogen and Fuel Cells, Arthritis Research UK, Efficient Fossil Energy Technology, Medical Research Council (MRC), Midlands Physics Alliance, the Manufacturing Technology Centre, the Midlands Energy Consortium, University of Birmingham
Spotlight
School of Economics grand total Sport Relief 2012 was a big event for the School of […]
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Tags: Ambassador of the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia, CR® neuromodulation, Cummins Generator Technologies, Developing Solutions, His Excellency Berhanu Kebede, Medical Research Council Institute of Hearing, National Biomedical Research Unit in Hearing (NBRUH), National Institute for Health Research (NIHR), Royal Academy of Engineering, School of Economics, Sport Relief 2012, The Cummins Innovation Centre in Electrical Machines, The Ethiopian Ministry of Education, The Faculty of Engineering, tinnitus
Jump in… and Wheee!
Wheee! — Lakeside’s International Children’s Theatre and Dance Festival — will premiere the EXXOPOLIS to help celebrate Architects of Air’s 20th anniversary.
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Tags: Alex Patterson, Architects of Air, Arts Council England, Cultural Olympiad, EXXOPOLIS, Grants for the Arts, Igniting Ambition, Jump In, Lakeside’s International Children’s Theatre and Dance Festival, Legacy Trust UK, luminarium, Spark Children’s Arts Festival, Wheee!
Pallets pavilion
Architecture students from The University of Nottingham have come up with a creative and sustainable way of helping us shelter from the elements.
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Tags: A Fleeting Retreat, Department of Architecture and Built Environment, Ecobuild, Guillermo Guzman Dumont, Scott ELM
I studied Law, and got a drama society 3rd…
Broadcaster and alumnus Matthew Bannister, who controversially turned BBC Radio 1 on its head in the 90s, returned to his old stomping ground to open the new Humanities Building.
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Blood test for cancer is trialled by NHS Scotland
The NHS in Scotland is to conduct a major screening trial for lung cancer using a new blood test developed by Oncimmune Ltd, a University of Nottingham spinout company. It will be the first time the blood test has been used outside the US.
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Tags: Chief Scientific Officer of Oncimmune Ltd, Director of CEAC, EarlyCDT-Lung, lung cancer, Oncimmune Ltd, Professor John Robertson, The Centre of Excellence for Autoimmunity in Cancer (CEAC)
Conflict ‘inevitable’: far right supporters
Far right supporters in the UK believe violent conflict between different religious, racial and ethnic groups is largely inevitable, according to a new survey on political extremism.
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Tags: British National Party, Dr Matthew Goodwin, English Defence League, extremism, From Voting to Violence? Far Right Extremism in Britain, Professor Jocelyn Evans, School of Politics and International Relations, UK Independence Party, University of Salford