Press releases

A new interpretation of the life and work of the influential and controversial 14th century Muslim scholar Ibn Taymiyya has been receiving critical acclaim in advance of its publication next month.

An iconic 1960‘s novel that relates the observations of a football reporter wandering the streets of Nottingham is to be played out on those same streets in a mass community performance, 50 years after the book’s publication.

A special partnership has been signed to forge new research collaborations and educational projects between the University of Nottingham and University College Dublin. The institutions’ Faculties of Arts and Humanities have signed a Memorandum of Understanding to further develop educational and research links between both universities.

A unique collection of previously unseen photographs that reveal what life was like for German soldiers in an East Midlands WW1 prisoner of war camp will be on show in a new exhibition opening this week.

New and easy to use immersive captioning technology is to be made freely available to UK theatre companies to boost their provision for deaf audiences. The package of training and software has been developed by experts in drama and performance at the University of Nottingham, in collaboration with Red Earth Theatre, a pioneering company based in the East Midlands.

The award-winning novelist and screenwriter Roddy Doyle will be talking about his life and work at a ‘literary cabaret’ event to launch the latest edition of The Letters Page – an unusual journal of creative writing produced at the University of Nottingham.

Psychologists from the University of Nottingham are appealing for people to come forward who may have taken part in pioneering research into child development in Nottingham City from the 1950s to the 1970s.

On this day nearly 2,000 years ago a birthday party was held for Claudia Severa, the wife of a Roman officer. How do we know this? Because the party invitation sent to the wife of the camp commander at Vindolanda, a Roman fort near Hadrian’s Wall, survives to this day.

A University of Nottingham professor who pioneers the teaching of philosophy from the primary school classroom right up to post-doctoral level, has won a prestigious national teaching award. Professor Andrew Fisher from the University’s Department of Philosophy has been given a National Teaching Fellowship – the most coveted accolade for university teachers in the UK.

There is still chance to see Homage to the Bauhaus, a major Nottingham Lakeside Arts public exhibition, which runs until Sunday 2 June in the Djanogly Gallery.