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Description: Viking experts from the Universities of Nottingham and Leicester have examined pregnancy in the Viking Age and discovered that pregnant women were depicted in art and literature with martial gear, and newborns were born into a harsh world where they were not all given burial or were born free. The new interdisciplinary study Womb Politics: The Pregnant Body and Archaeologies of Absent – led by Dr Marianne Hem Eriksen, Associate Professor of Archaeology at the University of Leicester, and co-author Dr Katherine Marie Olley, Assistant Professor in Viking Studies and Director of the Centre for the Study of the Viking Age in the School of English at the University of Nottingham – is the first focused examination of pregnancy in the Viking Age.
Date:: 15/05/2025

Description: We're delighted to congratulate Dr Lucy Jones and her project Words We Live By for winning Best Public Engagement Initiative at the 2025 University of Nottingham Policy Impact and Public Engagement Awards. This year's Best Public Engagement Initiative award was given to two fantastic projects, Dr Jones for Words We Live By and Dr Hongwei Bao (CLAS) for 'Poetics of Migration', a project that foregrounds migrant experiences through poetry and participatory arts. "I'm delighted to have received this award for the Words We Live By project," said Dr Jones, "we tried to create something which would increase understanding around using language inclusively and sensitively to talk about gender and sexuality; this feels so important right now, at a time when LGBTQ+ people face increasing hostility and marginalisation."
Date:: 08/05/2025

Description: A team of language experts at the University of Nottingham has joined a multi-agency campaign to tailor health communications and improve the accessibility of immunisation communications. The campaign, which launched across London on Monday 7 October 2024, aims to help raise awareness about the importance of vaccinations – particularly within communities where vaccine uptake is lower – and create space for open conversations.
Date:: 05/12/2024

Description: We're delighted to announce that the 2024 Seasonal Photography Competition is now live! The theme for this year's competition is LIGHT, this might include (but is not limited to!) Christmas lights, candlelight, sunlight…anything that you can think of to bring a little bit of light! The deadline to submit your entry is Tuesday, 3 December 2024. The winners will be announced before the end of term.
Date:: 26/11/2024

Description: Congratulations to Cathy Symes, Lauren Colley and Lucile Deslignères, all current School of English students who have been longlisted for the Aurora Prize for Writing! The Aurora Prize is a national writing competition run by Writing East Midlands, in partnership with the Society of Authors, that has run since 2016 and seeks outstanding new writing in short fiction and poetry. The judges for this year are best-selling crime novelist Vaseem Khan for the Short Fiction category and esteemed poet and author Andrew McMillan for the Poetry category, the winners will be announced at the award ceremony on the 30th October 2024.
Date:: 27/09/2024

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