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Pop up café to offer coffee and cake — with a side of science

Description: A pop up Research Café, organised by researchers at The University of Nottingham, will be running alongside the usual Café Bar at Nottingham Contemporary on Thursday August 20 and Friday August 21.
Release Date: Last Year

Is the GP 'fit note' fit for purpose?

Description: GPs require better training in using the 'fit note', according to new research by The University of Nottingham. Rehabilitation research experts commissioned by the Institution of Occupational Safety and Health (IOSH) found that fit notes were not being used to their full potential by doctors, patients and employers to manage sick leave.
Release Date: Last Year

Mercia Fund Management provides £379,000 to help NuVision commercialise groundbreaking eyecare technology

Description: University of Nottingham spin-out, NuVision, has received £379k seed funding from Mercia Fund Management, to help develop innovative new eye care solutions.
Release Date: Last Year

Electric vehicles spark energy savings in Nottingham

Description: The University of Nottingham has welcomed nine new electric vehicles to its fleet as part of a sustainability strategy and to reduce carbon impact, in line with Nottingham city's commitment to electric vehicles.
Release Date: Last Year

Young Animal Welfare Scientist of the Year

Description: Work on improving the welfare of animals in the UK has reaped national recognition.
Release Date: Last Year

EPSRC rail consortium shows how to cut costs and reduce delays

Description: Practical measures to help prevent landslips and enhance track stability are among rail improvements pinpointed by engineering research involving The University of Nottingham. The potential upgrades would mean rail passengers face fewer speed restrictions, delays and cancellations – and help the UK rail industry achieve multi-million-pound savings.
Release Date: Last Year

Major projects to bring innovative pathology tests to patients for better treatment

Description: Improving the quality of life and longevity of patients with gastrointestinal, liver and respiratory diseases.
Release Date: Last Year

Festival to celebrate Nottingham as 'Creative City'

Description: Local ambassador for the arts, David Sillitoe, will lead Nottingham's Being Human Festival 2015 this November.
Release Date: Last Year

Nottingham campuses are among the greenest spaces in Britain

Description: The University of Nottingham has secured a prestigious Green Flag award for both its Jubilee and University Park campuses — for the third year in a row.
Release Date: Last Year

Students win airworthiness award for unmanned aircraft challenge

Description: A group of third year MEng Mechanical Engineering and Design Engineering students have been awarded a 'Safety and Airworthiness Award' in an unmanned aircraft competition.
Release Date: Last Year

New material forges the way for 'stem cell factories'

Description: The first fully synthetic substrate with potential to grow billions of stem cells could forge the way for the creation of 'stem cell factories'
Release Date: Last Year

Major feeding trial will improve long-term health of premature babies

Description: A national research project that will improve the long-term health of premature babies has met its recruitment target nearly a year early.
Release Date: Last Year

Cancer expert takes the research reins at Nottingham

Description: Following a rigorous search, Professor Dame Jessica Corner has been appointed as Pro-Vice-Chancellor for Research and Knowledge Exchange at The University of Nottingham.
Release Date: Last Year

Midlands' universities group appoints new director to drive Midlands Engine agenda

Description: The leading research intensive universities in the Midlands have appointed their first Director to oversee the development of an exceptional HE partnership, which aims to harness their combined research power and bring significant economic benefits to the Midlands Engine and rest of the UK.
Release Date: Last Year

Malaysia's 'black panthers' finally reveal their leopard's spots

Description: Leopards can change their spots. Researchers using specially modified camera traps have revealed the black leopard's spots.
Release Date: Last Year

University of Nottingham celebrates 250,000th graduate

Description: The University of Nottingham celebrated the graduation of its 250,000th student on Friday 17 Jul 2015.
Release Date: Last Year

British Academy Fellowship for historical geography scholar

Description: A historical geographer from The University of Nottingham has been elected to the British Academy, the UK's champion of the humanities and social sciences, in recognition of his outstanding research.
Release Date: Last Year

Research into how parents cope with sick children in top three BMJ papers in last 20 years

Description: Research revealing what worries parents when their pre-school children are acutely ill is among the BMJ's top three most influential papers in 20 years.
Release Date: Last Year

University shares £23m investment in 'Digital Britain'

Description: Horizon Digital Economy Research Centre shares £23m to drive forward UK Digital Economy research, knowledge and skills.
Release Date: Last Year

Who do you think you are? Find out at University's Family History Day

Description: The University of Nottingham is to offer a helping hand to people interested in finding out more about the part their family may have played in the First World War at a free community open day later this month.
Release Date: Last Year

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