Press releases

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.

Anthony Warner aka The Angry Chef will be sharing his strong views on food, diet and scientific mistruths as part of a new speaker series.

The Chinese table tennis legend and University of Nottingham alumna Dr Deng Yaping is back at her alma mater this week to meet aspiring sports stars of the future who are benefiting from a scholarship established in her name.

The University has issued a statement on the invitation to Chris Williamson MP among a number of other MPs across the political spectrum to speak to students in its School of Politics and International Relations.

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.

Men who suffer from hair loss as a result of treatment for breast cancer are often unfairly side-lined because the focus tends to be on women, according to new research.

The University of Nottingham’s Provost and Deputy Vice-Chancellor (DVC) Professor Andy Long has been awarded a prestigious Fellowship of the Royal Academy of Engineering.

A new study has found that halving the amount red and processed (RPM) meat in the diet can have a significant impact on health, reducing the amount of LDL ‘bad’ cholesterol in the blood which cuts the risk of developing heart disease.

A world-exclusive exhibition that brought Chinese dinosaurs to the city of Nottingham has won an ‘excellence in exhibitions’ award.

A Nottingham scheme which has encouraged students in the city to donate tens of thousands of bags of unwanted items to charity has been recognised with a national award.