Press releases

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.

New research, which has reviewed major UK political parties’ past manifestos, finds they all lack the boldness needed to tackle the structural roots of inequality and significantly raise people out of poverty.

Experts at the University of Nottingham have mapped the mathematics degrees of England and Wales to establish there is variety between programmes. However, they found there is less variety available to students with lower A-level grades and the number of new starters for these degrees has fallen.

There are just two days to go until Guernsey’s general election, and University of Nottingham academic Dr Christopher Pich, has been invited to be a key contributor in the analysis and commentary of this year’s BBC coverage.

A new study from the University of Nottingham has assessed the actions investors are taking on health, highlighting a number of gaps and shortcomings across important areas of public health.