Campus News
Participants needed for a driving study
August 14th, 2015
Researchers from the Human Factors Research Group are looking for volunteers for a driving simulator study between Tuesday 28 and Wednesday 26 August.
During the study, you will be asked to take part in a number of drives where you will be required to carry out tasks, which will include talking on a hands-free mobile device and interacting with a prototype voice based system.
The team are looking for participants who:
- have held a valid UK or EU driving license for 3 years or longer
- are aged over 30 years old
- own/lease a car
- do not suffer from severe motion sickness, epilepsy, migraines, dizziness, blurred vision
- are not pregnant
The study will take approximately one and a half hours and you will be given a £15 Amazon voucher for your time. The study will take place in the Simulation Room, ITRC Building, University Park.
Please use your email address to sign up for a space on Doodle. You can also email Vicki Antrobus if you have any questions and/or would like to participate in the study.
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Malaysia Campus 15th anniversary – this week’s highlights
August 14th, 2015
To celebrate our 15-year anniversary as the first UK university to establish an overseas campus in Malaysia, we’ve asked staff and students who’ve spent time there for their memories.
This week’s highlights:
- Newly-wed couple, and University of Nottingham alumni, Ashley and Keith Hobson, share their love story, which was sparked through a mutual love of Malaysia.
- The University of Nottingham in Malaysia featured heavily in David Cameron’s UKTI trade delegation to Malaysia and Singapore at the end of July
- Nottingham University Business School (NUBS) MBA student has Malaysia on his mind after Southeast Asia international business study tour. Here he writes about the companies and cultural spots he visited in Kuala Lumpur
- More facts and milestones about Malaysia Campus’ early days, as we celebrate its 15th anniversary, are remembered on Twitter
If you have a story to tell on your experiences at UNMC, please contact emma.lowry@nottingham.ac.uk, and you will be put into a prize draw for travel vouchers worth £200.
Follow the celebration campaign on Twitter #UNMC15
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Works on Portland Hill – update
August 12th, 2015
From Thursday 7 August to 6pm Friday 14 August, the road on Portland Hill will be closed to traffic.
Deliveries to Portland Building will be maintained as the road will temporarily be two-way – after a delivery, the vehicle will have to turn around and follow the one-way system of Cut Through Lane to exit. Please see the map below for more details.
Portland Hill works August 2015
The bus stops on East Drive will not be in use from 7pm on Tuesday 4 August, and will run again from the morning of Saturday 15 August. In addition, the King’s Meadow and Sutton Bonington hopper buses and 34 service will not call at Portland Hill stop for the duration of the closure.
The nearest alternative bus stops are listed below:
- King’s Meadow & Sutton Bonington hopper buses, 34 service – please use the bus stop by the Arts Centre
- Royal Derby Hospital centre hopper bus – for the duration of the closure, the hopper bus to Royal Derby Hospital Centre will depart from Library Road bus stop (behind Portland Building on Cut Through Lane)
- L12 service, St Peter’s Court service – please use the bus stop on Science Road
For details of more works affecting travel to and around our campuses, visit our dedicated webpage.
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University of Nottingham Malaysia joins No. 10 and BIS trade delegation to Southeast Asia
August 11th, 2015
The University of Nottingham featured heavily in education and trade discussions during the UK Prime Minister’s visit to Singapore and Malaysia last week.
Four members of The University of Nottingham Malaysia Campus (UNMC) joined the UKTI (UK Trade and Investment) Northern Powerhouse delegation in Kuala Lumpur on Thursday 30 July.
Provost and CEO of UNMC, Professor Christine Ennew; Professor of Global Food Security and CEO of Crops for the Future Research Centre, Sayed Azam-Ali and Claire O’Malley, Dean for the Faculty of Science flew the flag for Nottingham and UNMC.
They were present alongside Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, Sajid Javid; Minister of State for the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, Hugo Swire; Lord Francis Maude, Minister of State for Trade and Investment, as well as MP for Broxtowe and Minister for Small Business, Anna Soubry.
Activity involving UNMC included:
- Professor Ennew spoke as part of a high-level roundtable on UK/Malaysia science and innovation co-operation with Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills Rt. Hon. Sajid Javid MP and Chaired by the British High Commissioner to Malaysia, Her Excellency Vicki Treadell.
- CEO of Innovate UK, Dr Ruth McKernan visited the brand new £26m Crops for the Future headquarters based at UNMC, to discuss plans for the grand opening of the iconic ‘Domes’ due to take place in September and be marked by a major international symposium on Global Food Security, featuring world leaders, Nobel laureates and senior Government officials from both UK and Malaysia.
- Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills Rt. Hon. Sajid Javid MP, launched “Year of British Education in Malaysia” at an Education is GREAT reception at the British Council in Kuala Lumpur. UNMC quite literally provided the backdrop to this significant announcement (pictured above) – which follows the announcement of the Malaysian Government’s Education Blueprint earlier this year.
- Professor Ennew was interviewed by Times Higher Education last week to talk about the 15th Anniversary of UNMC and the future of branch campuses.
- UKTI announced that UNMC has secured a major new scholarships deal via its partners Aerospace Malaysia Innovation Centre (AMIC) and Majlis Rakyat (MARA). They are to sponsor 60 students, over the next five years, to undertake aerospace research in the Asia Aerospace City Research & Technology Centre.
In another move to strengthen UK/Malaysian ties, Malaysian think tank Asian Strategy and Leadership Institute (ASLI) has just announced that it is to present a lifetime achievement award to the University of Nottingham’s Vice-Chancellor, Professor Sir David Greenaway.
The prestigious award is to be conferred by the Deputy PM of Malaysia, Ahmad Zahid Hamidi and the President of Indonesia, Joko Widodo. The ceremony will be held in the UK in November.
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Rambling Dad raising money for the Nystagmus Network
August 10th, 2015
On Saturday 29 August, the University’s own Dominic Holder, Student Administration Manager, will walk around Highfields Park Lake for 12 hours to raise money for the Nystagmus Network, a charity that deals with support and research into the incurable eye condition Nystagmus.
Far from a ‘walk in the park’, the challenge will see Dominic walking solo around the lake non-stop from 7am to 7pm, with friends and family joining him for some of the stretch in support. Called ‘Rambling Dad’, money raised on the walk will go towards providing information, support and advice as well as funding and encouraging research around Nystagmus.
Dominic said: “My 10-year-old son has this condition and has benefitted greatly from this fantastic charity. I would like to raise some money to allow others to continue to have their lives enhanced.”
You can support Dominic’s Rambling Dad walk through his Just Giving page, and can also visit his Facebook group for more background to his story and updates.
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Impact: The Nottingham Campaign raises £150 million
August 10th, 2015
We are delighted to announce that thanks to the generosity of thousands of supporters – including hundreds of staff and students – we have reached our ambitious target of raising £150 million in charitable donations through Impact: The Nottingham Campaign.
These funds have supported students through scholarships, Cascade grants and by enabling exciting new developments across campus such as the new David Ross Sports Village, GSK Carbon Neutral Laboratory and New Theatre. It has made life-saving research at the Children’s Brain Tumour Research Centre possible and is offering hope to millions by supporting ground-breaking advancements in detecting cancer early.
We will be officially celebrating reaching this milestone in October with all those who have been part of this incredible campaign so far. However it is clear to see that the projects and research made possible through Impact are just as important today as they were when we launched the campaign 5 years ago. Students still face barriers in coming to University and diseases like cancer and dementia are major global health issues. This is why we are extending our fundraising target to £200 million and creating exciting new ways for people to give their time to help students fulfil their potential and support world-changing research here at the University.
More updates and highlights from all that we have achieved so far will be available from October. In the meantime, if you have any questions about the Campaign or our planned celebrations please contact us at impactcampaign@nottingham.ac.uk
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Organisation design model update
August 7th, 2015
A message from Professor Karen Cox, Deputy Vice-Chancellor and Project Transform sponsor
Following on from the Vice Chancellor’s and my recent communication announcing a new organisation design model for the University, I wanted to update you on the latest developments.
We have now seconded senior administrative colleagues from across the institution to work part-time on the detailed design of the new model, and to develop the job roles, management structures and guidance required to put it in place. Service Centres will be in place by September 2016 to support our students throughout their student journey. The seconded colleagues are:
- Dr Carol Bell, School Manager, Geography
- Dr Karen Braithwaite, Director of Academic Support & Administration, Veterinary Medicine & Science
- Chris Hulse, School Manager, Medicine
- Katie Laverty, Head of Student Service Delivery, Student Operations & Support (seconded full-time)
- Alex Slater, Head of Faculty Teaching & Learning Support & Development, Engineering
A series of workshops is being organised to allow staff in Schools, Faculties, and Professional Services to inform the working group’s recommendations to Programme Board, along with comments gathered at previous workshops, and from the recent Academic Staff Survey.
APM job roles in the new model will be defined for approval at October’s Programme Board meeting. Once the detailed design and roles get Board approval, we will share plans for appointing to them with individuals, School and Department managers.
APM job roles not connected to the student journey — and therefore not in the scope of Project Transform — are being examined by a separate steering group. Faculty Pro-Vice Chancellors and a number of Directors of Professional Services are involved in taking this work forward. Further updates on this work will be available in September.
All roles connected to the student journey will be managed by the new Chief Student Management Officer, Breda Walls. Breda will take up her post at the University on Monday 24 August to oversee the transition to the new model. A press release announcing this externally will be distributed next week.
I want to thank colleagues across the University — particularly in APM roles —for their hard work and support so far. Our success as an institution with a global reputation for excellent teaching and outstanding research would not be possible without you. These new roles and structures, combined with the new technology platform being developed by Project Transform, will allow us to improve the experience of every student at The University of Nottingham, and give APM staff more opportunities for personal and professional development.
I will be in touch in September following Programme Board. If you want more information on the organisation design elements of the project, please contact the representatives above, or Adrian Simpson, the Organisation Design Lead in Project Transform.
Karen Cox
Deputy Vice-Chancellor, Project Transform sponsor
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Malaysia Campus 15th anniversary – this week’s highlights
August 6th, 2015
To celebrate our 15-year anniversary as the first UK university to establish an overseas campus in Malaysia, we’ve asked staff and students who’ve spent time there for their memories. This week’s highlights:
- Provost of UNMC, Professor Christine Ennew has featured in the Times Higher Education, talking about the 15th anniversary and the future of branch campuses.
- Professor Ennew has also blogged about her early years at UNMC, opening her photo albums of yester year and sharing her memories.
- More facts and milestones about the campus’ early days, as we celebrate its 15th anniversary, are remembered on Twitter.
If you have a story to tell on your experiences at UNMC, please contact emma.lowry@nottingham.ac.uk, and you will be put into a prize draw for travel vouchers worth £200.
Follow the celebration campaign on Twitter #UNMC15.
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Temporary car park closure – Nottingham Lakeside Arts and Department of Music
August 5th, 2015
From Monday 10 until Friday 14 August the access road to the rear of Nottingham Lakeside Arts and the Department of Music will be closed off to all traffic.
This is to facilitate some of the final tram works and will unfortunately mean that the parking bays in the area will not be available.
There will also be resurfacing works taking place on University Park in August. From Monday 10 to Friday 14 August, works will take place on Cut Through Lane to reinstate cycle lanes taking place from 6pm to 6am. The road will remain open through the works. Between 6pm and 6am from Friday 14 to Friday 21 August, resurfacing works will take place on Beeston Lane from the East Midlands Conference Centre to Derby Hall. Between 8am and 5pm each day Monday 24 – Wednesday 26 August, Lenton Grove car park will be closed for resurfacing. Car park users including the tenants of Florence Boot Close are asked to please ensure they find alternative parking or move their vehicles before 8am each day.
For details of these and other works, visit our Works affecting our campuses webpage.
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Children’s Brain Tumour Research: new internal funding programme
August 5th, 2015
A new competitive internal awards programme to support scientific and clinical brain tumour research projects at the University has been established thanks to a significant grant made by The Stoneygate Trust.
The Stoneygate Children’s Brain Tumour Research Fund incorporates two grant schemes: the Career Catalyst Awards and the Proof of Concept Awards.
A first call for proposals for both schemes has been issued, with applications invited by Wednesday 30 September 2015 to support projects led by researchers in any part of the University which aim to deliver a significant advance in the study of children’s brain cancer. This can be in any research discipline, and the Fund has a particular interest in supporting interdisciplinary work which takes an integrative approach towards understanding the causes, treatment and outcomes of childhood brain tumours.
All submissions will be peer-reviewed by an assessment panel comprising senior University academic staff and including esteemed external representation.
Detail on both schemes, along with application forms and contact details for queries, is available on The Stoneygate Fund webpage.
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