Press releases

More than one thousand frontline staff from across Nottingham and Nottinghamshire have been trained to spot signs of modern slavery, since a Slavery-Free Community pledge was signed by leaders in Nottingham and Nottinghamshire in 2017.

Singing talent from the Vicky McClure Dementia Choir, featured on a BBC TV documentary, will be among the performers at a national conference in Nottingham discussing the role music can play in health and social care.

The testimony of survivors should be at the forefront of antislavery work, according a new report by the Rights Lab at the University of Nottingham.

A new study shows that companies in the agriculture sector are failing to produce Modern Slavery Statements that demonstrate what they are doing to end labour exploitation in their workforce.

The Atrato river in Colombia has a pioneering global status as a bearer of its own legal rights. Nottingham University academic, Dr Nick Mount, is on the team working to uphold these rights - an experience he will be sharing at a public lecture.

Professor Duncan Angwin has been appointed the new Dean of Nottingham University Business School. He joins the School of Business from Lancaster University where he is currently the Sir Roland Smith Professor in Strategic Management and Head of Department for Entrepreneurship and Strategy.    

Minerals and metals used in touchscreen mobiles are becoming scarce yet these changes to the environment are currently underrepresented in global sustainability efforts

People are more likely to punish a selfish individual if someone else does it first according to the findings of a large-scale experiment.

A major new study has revealed that the Brexit process has created a large, broad and long-lasting increase in uncertainty for British businesses.

A new report has found that since the EU referendum in 2016 overseas nurses are experiencing higher levels of discrimination and are more likely to consider leaving the NHS.