Press releases

A team of students from the University of Nottingham have been crowned national champions of a youth social action and enterprise competition. The budding entrepreneurs, whose projects in Nottingham and Uganda won judges’ votes, will go forward to represent the UK in the world finals in September.

Researchers at the University of Nottingham have highlighted highly variable levels of microplastic pollution in UK rivers.

The University of Nottingham’s Rights Lab has partnered with colleagues in the Home Office’s Modern Slavery Unit to trial a pilot ‘buddying’ scheme, providing policy officials and academics the opportunity to experience and better understand each other’s work.

A new report into the state of mathematics education across England’s Further Education sector, including why fewer than 20% of 16 to 18 year-olds pass their GCSE Mathematics resit, has found that major investment in leadership training and teacher professional development is required to make more significant and sustained improvements.

Ruby and blue sapphire are among the gemstones from Kenya that are popular in jewellery, sold in the UK and across the world but the dangerous conditions in which the miners work to ensure their supply is less well documented. A new exhibition is set to change that.

Professor Roisin P. Corcoran appointed to Government What Works Trial Advice Panel

Counter-terrorism strategies need to include measures to tackle modern slavery because of the ways human trafficking can directly fund terrorism, and to prevent it from happening in the future, according to anti-slavery experts from the Rights Lab at the University of Nottingham.

A new global review of antislavery legislation has busted a popular misconception that slavery is now illegal in every country in the world.