Press releases

A new study by experts from the University of Nottingham, examines why some people die alone and what circumstances can lead to them spending their final days isolated from others.

The second round of results from a three-survey study highlights the ongoing concerns nurses and midwives in the UK have about COVID-19 and the risks it poses to their own physical and mental health, as well as the health of their families.

Dr Mark Sabine writes about the experience of translating a chapter of a serial novel in lockdown.

A free online course that provides dementia carers with tools and advice to better support the people they care for is now open for registration.

MRI research has revealed detailed new insights into how the placenta works in pregnancy and discovered a completely new phenomenon where the placenta contracts every now and then, a pheonomenon the research team have named the ‘uteroplacental pump’.

The University of Nottingham Health Service, at Cripps Medical Centre, University Park, is recruiting for the next phase in human trials of a COVID-19 vaccine in human volunteers.

Professor Thomas O’Loughlin has today been made an honorary member of the Royal Irish Academy, considered the highest academic distinction in Ireland.

Scientists have identified a natural variation in a gene that influences sodium content in barley crops, a finding which may help advance the development of barley varieties with improved yield and resilience.

An online fundraising appeal to support coronavirus (COVID-19) research and ease student hardship has been launched by the University of Nottingham.

COVID-19 is a global challenge which requires global solutions. In the first event of its kind, UK and Indonesian policy makers, scientists, and funding agencies discussed the roadmap to tackling COVID-19 with the aid of effective multi-disciplinary collaborations