Press releases

Six budding Nottingham entrepreneurs have been announced as winners of the 2022 Ingenuity Impact Awards at the University of Nottingham’s inaugural business conference.

Dr Sabina Lawreniuk has been awarded almost £1.3 million to investigate the specific threats posed to female garment workers in supply chains across the world.

A study into the lives and working conditions of Leicester garment workers has identified nine key areas that the sector can improve upon.

A new exhibition exploring the history and place of alcohol in the East Midlands is opening at Lakeside Arts next week.

The University of Nottingham and Nottingham Trent University will join forces as part of a £5.1m project training doctoral researchers to undertake projects to improve the lives of communities in Nottingham and Nottinghamshire.

UK immigration loopholes are allowing the fishing industry to exploit migrant fishers, leaving them open to deportation, through no fault of their own, and being paid well below the minimum wage, a new report by the Rights Lab has found.

Nottingham University Business School today joins the top one per cent of business schools in the world that hold ‘triple crown’ accreditation. The school has earned accreditation from AACSB International—The Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB) for all three of its locations in the UK, China and Malaysia.

The University of Nottingham’s teacher training courses have retained their ‘Outstanding’ rating from Ofsted following a routine inspection.

Dame Sara Thornton DBE QPM, the UK’s Independent Anti-Slavery Commissioner, has joined the University of Nottingham’s Rights Lab as Professor of Practice in Modern Slavery Policy.

Academics studying the global fishing industry have uncovered a novel method to identify the regions and ports at highest risk for labour abuse and illegal fishing, helping regulators and policymakers to pinpoint which regions to focus on when sourcing seafood.