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All about growth
A local entrepreneur whose company is helping job seekers get back into work, is expanding his […]
Appears in Issue 5
Tags: European Regional Development Fund, Growth 100, Hadyn Green Institute for Innovation and Entrepreneurship, My Jobs Place, Nottingham City Council
Trawling for memories and responses to extreme weather events
Snow storms, floods, droughts, heatwaves and hurricanes — all these can have a dramatic effect on […]
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Tags: AHRC, British Climate Histories, geography, Professor Georgina Endfield, weather
Tackling the problem of self-harm among children in care
The problem of self-harm among young people in care is to be tackled as part of […]
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Tags: Dr Ellen Townsend, health, Listen-up!, mental health, psychology, School of Psychology
Selflessness can be attractive to a potential mate
Altruistic or selfless behaviour is an attractive trait in a potential sexual partner, according to new […]
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Tags: behaviour, Centre for Biomolecular Sciences, natural selection, psychology, School of Life Sciences, social science
Early behavioural problems linked to lower GCSE grades
As thousands of 16-year-olds find out their GCSE results, new research has found that three-year-olds who […]
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Tags: adolescence, Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children, behaviour, Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, GCSE, hyperactivity
Areas of high unemployment bear the brunt of bank closures
Some of Britain’s poorest communities have been hit the hardest by the thousands of bank and […]
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Tags: banks, colures, economy, politics, recession, School of Geography, unemployment
Do conservation scientists work too hard?
An international study of the work habits of conservation biologists suggests that they do work very […]
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Tags: academic, behaviour, Malaysia Campus, School of Geography, scientists, work patterns
Warming to shale gas
A report by experts at The University of Nottingham has shown that the British public is […]
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Tags: cheap fuel, energy, public, School of Geography, School of Politics and International Relations, shale gas