Posts categorised as ‘Issue 80’
Overcoming barriers, together
Calibre is a personal leadership and development programme for University staff with disabilities*. Among the programme’s […]
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Tags: Calibre, Disabled Staff Network, Disabled Staff Network coordinator, Gillian Coburn, Katharine Carter, Model Design Technician, Professional Development Officer, Professor of Ancient History, Sarah Thomas, School of Architecture, Stephen Hodkinson, Susan Inness
Love your local MP?
New research from the British Election Study (BES) has found that contrary to popular perception, only […]
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Tags: British Election Study, Economic and Social Research Council, Professor Philip Cowley
Foreign Language TV service a click away
Students and staff can now use any University-networked PC to watch 50 satellite channels broadcasting in […]
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Tags: Director of the Language Centre, FLTV, Foreign Language TV service, Marisa Marmo, Oranna Speicher
Research funding record
The University secured a record-breaking £181m worth of new grants to fund its pioneering research in […]
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Tags: Arts and Humanities Research Council, Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council, Centre for Hidden Histories of the First World War, Centre in Additive Manufacturing, Economic and Social Research Council, Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Faculty of Science, Medical Research Council, Natural Environment Research Counci, Pro-Vice-Chancellor for Research, Saul Tendler, Science and Technologies Facilities Council, Synthetic Biology Research Centre
University hot air balloon returns
It’s a view of the campus that most freshers never expect to see… Emily Roseveare and Rhianna […]
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Tags: Dr Janet Folkes, Dr Paul Greatrix, Emily Roseveare, Modern European Studies, Rhianna Greene, The University of Nottingham hot air balloon, Yvonne Wilkinson
‘For me, APPLE was totally career changing’
Apple, an award-winning women’s development programme is celebrating 10 years at the University. Here, five APPLE […]
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Tags: Apple women’s development programme, Course Director for APPLE and WAND programmes, Eleanor Forward, Graduate School, Imaging and Optical Science and Technical Staff Development Officer, Institute of Biophysics, Kelly-Ann Vere, Life Sciences, Professor Marion Walker, Research & Graduate Services, Researcher Training and Development Manager, Senior Technician, Soma Mukherjee Research Systems Manager, Suzanne Morton, Tamsin Majerus Assistant Professor and Daphne Jackson Research Fellow
Star Wars fan no longer in the dark
He’s had the box for four or five years but vintage toy collector and Star Wars […]
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Tags: Collectors Gazette., Dave Moss, Emperor Palpatine, Hounsfield Facility, Rob Burman, Star Wars
Black History Month at Nottingham
Music, spoken word, and public lectures on Rosa Parks, Malcolm X and Martin Luther King — […]
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Tags: Annette Gordon-Reed, Black History Month, BME Staff Network, Head of the School of Health Sciences, Margaret Wrinkle, Professor Patrick Callaghan, Professor Peter Ling, Sura Susso, Val Watson
Malawi maths ap’s ‘amazing success’
An app designed to boost the education of children in Malawi has also proved to be […]
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Tags: Andrew Ashe, Dr Nikki Pitchford, Malawi, Onebillion app, Rachel Jurkiw, School of Psychology
Remembering forgotten heroes of the Great War
Flanders Fields, muddy trenches, the poetry of Wilfred Owen, poppies, the final episode of Blackadder Goes […]
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Tags: Department of History, First World War, Professor John Beckett, rts and Humanities Research Council, The Centre for Hidden Histories