Press releases

The world’s first study into the best treatment options for adults living with severe hearing loss has launched in the UK.

Academics in the UK and Australia are joining forces as part of a major new international partnership that will see them collaborating on solutions to some of the world’s most pressing challenges including global food security, climate change and health.

Students in Nottingham have stepped up to support a national initiative that has seen them turn trash into treasure – and raise thousands of pounds for life-saving research into heart disease.

Academics at the University of Nottingham are looking for local singers with experience of dementia care to take part in the first ever performances of Take Care, a new opera based on the university’s research into dementia home care.

University of Nottingham professor and You Tube science hero, Sir Martyn Poliakoff, has had a Nottingham tram named in his honour which was unveiled on his birthday.

A fourth year pharmacy student has been recognised for her work to improve inclusion across the profession and been named as a trailblazing ‘woman to watch’.

Experts at the University of Nottingham and University Hospitals of Derby and Burton have been awarded £1.2m from the National Institute of Health Research (NIHR) to improve the rehabilitation of patients following surgery for finger flexor tendon injuries.

A new study has calculated the long-term economic impact of Covid-19 on city centres and found that as the shift towards working from home moves businesses to suburban areas, city centres stand to lose £3 billion in 2022.

Scientists have for the first time obtained stem cells from livestock that grow under chemically defined conditions, paving the way for manufacturing cell cultured meat and breeding enhanced livestock.

The largest study of care homes in the UK, led by experts at the University of Nottingham, has found that a co-ordinated approach to fall prevention in care homes is effective in significantly reducing the number of times residents fall.