Press releases

Dr Sabrina Li, of the School of Geography, has been awarded a prestigious UK Research and Innovation Future Leaders Fellowship. The flagship fellowships support outstanding early career researchers and allow them to tackle complex challenges and develop as innovation leaders of the future.

Almost half of senior school leaders across the UK say they feel burned out “often” according to a major new survey by the Universities of Nottingham and Warwick supported by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) through its ESRC Education Research Programme.

Biodiversity credits designed to incentivise the conservation and restoration of natural habitats need better transparency and regulation to be effective and credible.

A new international report led by Universitas 21 (U21), a global network of leading research-intensive universities, supported by expertise from the University of Nottingham, reveals that low pay, excessive workload, and diminished professional status continue to undermine efforts to recruit and retain teachers in the UK, Sweden, Australia, and the United States.

Two University of Nottingham academics, and a student careers service, have each received a prestigious Advance HE Award for promoting excellence in higher education and for demonstrating the impact of teaching in the sector. 

A new report from the Rights Lab at the University of Nottingham has highlighted the human and environmental impacts of cobalt mining in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and made recommendations to businesses and policymakers to improve working conditions.

FUSE, a start-up business aiming to address the crisis of ACL injuries within women’s football, has won the Ingenuity Impact Entrepreneur of the Year award in the Ingenuity Impact Showcase 2025.

An early mathematics approach developed by experts at the University of Nottingham, has been included in published findings from the Education Endowment Foundation (EEF), marking a significant contribution to the evidence base for early years education.

University of Nottingham undergraduate Amarachi Jessica Eze will be celebrated at the seventh annual Student Social Mobility Awards, which return to London’s prestigious Mansion House on 10 July 2025, for overcoming adversity and achieving exceptional accomplishments in their studies and beyond.

A ground-breaking new social venture company has been launched by researchers at the University of Nottingham and the University of Bristol to help farmers sell surplus produce to community-based buyers – including food banks, social supermarkets and small food producers – across the UK.