Posts categorised as ‘Research’
AncientBiotics – a medieval remedy for modern day superbugs?
A one thousand year old Anglo-Saxon remedy for eye infections which originates from a manuscript in […]
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Tags: arts, Christina Lee, health, history, medicine, MRSA, Old English, School of English, science, superbugs
ESRC media training opportunity
Researchers funded by the ESRC are being invited to sign up for free media training taking […]
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Tags: ESRC, media, media relations, press, research, training, workshop
Newton Fund
Newton Fund: building science and innovation capacity in developing countries A range of international collaboration opportunities […]
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Tags: Academy of Medical Sciences, British Academy, government, NERC, Newton Fellowships, Newton Fund, research, Royal Society, science
Take part in survey to shape the future of hearing loss research
Has your life been touched by hearing loss? Take part in a survey and you could help […]
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Tags: BRU, hearing, JLA, National Institute for Health Research, NIHR, Nottingham Hearing Biomedical Research Unit, research, survey, take part
Research win at Times Higher Awards
The University of Nottingham has won ‘Research Project of the Year’ at the Times Higher Education […]
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Tags: cornea, Dua's Layer, Harminder Dua, NHS, Opthalmology, Research Project of the Year, Times Higher Awards
Calling all gamers
Smoking in video game cut scenes — can you help? Do you play video or computer […]
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Tags: alcohol, computer games, cut scene, drug use, research, smoking, study, video games
Brain study’s Tourette hope
A brain mechanism which controls tics in children with Tourette syndrome (TS) has been discovered by […]
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Tags: Amelia Draper, British Psychological Society, James Tudor Foundation, Journal of Neuropsychology, Professor Stephen Jackson, School of Psychology, TMS, Tourette syndrome, Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation
Shedding light on risk of Alzheimer’s
Researchers from the University have helped uncover a second rare genetic mutation which strongly increases the […]
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Tags: Alzheimer’s disease, Alzheimer’s Research UK DNA bank, Kevin Morgan, Nature, New England Journal of Medicine, Phospholipase D3, Professor of Human Genomics and Molecular Genetics, Translational Cell Sciences Human Genetics
First global study into life behind bars
In the first study of its kind researchers are to examine life imprisonment on an international […]
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Tags: Alison Hannah, Anders Breivik, Leverhulme Trust, Life Imprisonment Worldwide: Principles and Practice, Penal Reform International, PRI, Professor Dirk van Zyl Smit, Professor of Comparative and International Penal Law, School of Law