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At the University of Nottingham, we're not just a place of learning; we're a powerhouse of change. With a commitment to ground breaking research at each of…
This is the place where the world comes to change…
From Clare Harwood
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Discover how our research is changing lives and shaping the future. In recent years our discoveries saved the NHS £2 billion, informed legislation affecting…
University of Nottingham research: From our world…
From Katherine Auer
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The UK was the first major aviation sector in the world to commit to net zero COâ‚‚ by 2050. Achieving net zero aviation will take coordinated and determined action,…
Net Zero Aviation l University of Nottingham
From Katherine Auer
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This movie shows the microstructure of a 3 mm disk from an Arabidopsis leaf. The image was captured using X-ray computed microtomography (microCT) at The Hounsfield…
Microstructure of an Arabidopsis Leaf Disk
From Craig Sturrock
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This movie shows the root system development of a maize (Zea mays) seeding grown in a clay loam soil. The image was captured using X-ray computed microtomography…
Maize Root System
From Craig Sturrock
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This video shows a 3D animation of a Chimpanzee os cordis (heart bone) discovered by researchers at University of Nottingham using X-ray Computed Tomography. …
Chimpanzee os cordis
From Craig Sturrock
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The movie shows the 3D animation of a cockroach. The image was captured using X-ray computed microtomography (microCT) at The Hounsfield Facility, School of…
Cockroach 3D Movie
From Craig Sturrock
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This movie shows the microstructure of the rhizosphere surrounding a wheat root. The image was captured using X-ray computed microtomography (microCT) at…
Rhizosphere microstrucuture around a wheat root.
From Craig Sturrock
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This movie shows the microstructure of a zero-tilled field soil. The image was captured using X-ray computed microtomography (microCT) at The Hounsfield Facility,…
Microstructure of a zero tilled field soil.
From Craig Sturrock
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This movie shows the 3d microstrcuture of a piece of aerated chocolate. The image was captured using X-ray computed microtomography (microCT) at The Hounsfield…
Aerated Chocolate
From Craig Sturrock
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This movie shows the root system of a wheat = seeding grown in a loamy sand soil for 14 days in a 10 cm diameter pot. The image was captured using X-ray…
Root system of a wheat seedling
From Craig Sturrock
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This movie shows the pore space of a loamy sand soil at field capacity moisture. The image was captured using X-ray computed microtomography (microCT) at…
Soil pore space and water
From Craig Sturrock
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This movie shows the root system of a maize (Zea mays) seeding grown in a loamy sand soil for 7 days. The image was captured using X-ray computed microtomography…
Root system of a maize (Zea mays) seeding
From Craig Sturrock
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A 3D image of a poppy (Papaver Sp.) seed head imaged at The Hounsfield Facility using X-ray computed microtomography (microCT).
Poppy seed head
From Craig Sturrock
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We're proud to have a diverse and talented community of engineers here, from students and researchers to academics and alumni. Everyone in our community makes a…
Our world-changing engineering research
From Sam Watkins
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University of Nottingham researchers have secured a major grant to develop a smart wound dressing embedded with optical fibre sensors to assess whether affected tissue…
Smart sensor bandage for chronic wounds
From Emma Lowry
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The discovery of new bacteria-resistant plastics to reduce the incidence of hospital acquired-infections, one of the UK's most significant heritage regeneration…
University of Nottingham Knowledge Exchange and…
From Robert Ounsworth
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Real world research. Real world impact. Our research knows no limits. Our discoveries change lives across the globe. Discover more about our world-changing research:…
Discovery. For the world
From Sophie Moyses
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Using multiple laser beams and Raman spectroscopy experts at the Universities of Nottingham and Glasgow have designed and built a new instrument which could help…
New ‘trap’ to analyse, in real time,…
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Grapevine (Vitis) from the plant family Vitaceae is a flowing vine plant with 79 different species and is an economically important source of grapes, both for the…
UoN The Hidden Half: Grapevine
From Brian Atkinson
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Pisum sativum is more commonly known as the pea plant. These plants are well known for growing peas in pods which are the plant’s fruit. This is an important…
UoN The Hidden Half: Wild Pea
From Brian Atkinson
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Pisum sativum is more commonly known as the pea plant. These plants are well known for growing peas in pods which are the plant’s fruit. This is an important…
UoN The Hidden Half: Ageotropum Pea
From Brian Atkinson
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Spinach, Spinacia oleracea, is a flower that is best known for its edible leaves. It is thought the plant originated in Iran and then moved across the world until…
UoN The Hidden Half: Spinach
From Brian Atkinson
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Wild alpine strawberry, Fragaria vesca, is one of 20 different strawberry species. The most common strawberry found in the supermarket is a cross between two species,…
UoN The Hidden Half: Alpine Strawberry
From Brian Atkinson
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Rocket, Eruca sativa, is also known as arugula in America. This edible plant is in the Brassicaceae family which includes many well-known plants such as broccoli and…
UoN The Hidden Half: Rocket
From Brian Atkinson
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Asparagus, Asparagus officinalis, is a well-known spring vegetable enjoyed since ancient times. A recipe including asparagus is included in one of the first known…
UoN The Hidden Half: Asparagus
From Brian Atkinson
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This X-ray CT scanned Freesia is from the species Fressia alba which is native to the cape of South Africa. Freesias are known for their funnel shaped flowers and are…
UoN The Hidden Half: Freesia
From Brian Atkinson
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Adromischis maculatus is commonly known as Calico Hearts or Chocolate drops due to their spotted leaves. These plants are known as succulents as the leaves are…
UoN The Hidden Half: Calico Hearts(Adromischus…
From Brian Atkinson
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Tomato, Solanum lycopersicum, is a member of the nightshade family of plants which is well known for being poisonous. Luckily for all tomato lovers the fruit does not…
UoN The Hidden Half: Tomato
From Brian Atkinson
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Sugar beet, Beta vulgaris, grows a root that contains a high percentage of sucrose and therefore is used to produce sugar. The first factory devoted to producing sugar…
UoN The Hidden Half: Sugar Beet
From Brian Atkinson
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Pisum sativum is more commonly known as the pea plant. These plants are well known for growing peas in pods which are the plants fruit. This is an important crop now…
UoN The Hidden Half: Pea (Kelvedon Wonder)
From Brian Atkinson
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Picea abies, Norway spruce, is a coniferous pine tree best known as a Christmas tree! Every Christmas Norway provides London with a Norway Spruce for Trafalgar Square.…
UoN The Hidden Half: Norway Spruce
From Brian Atkinson
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Maize (Zea mays), also known as corn, is one of the most widely grown and widely eaten crops. It is a grass that forms large ears full of kernels, which are sweet corn…
UoN The Hidden Half: Maize
From Brian Atkinson
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Phoenix dactylifera, commonly known as date palm, is well known for its sweet fruit. This flowering plant is in the palm family Arecaceae. Date palm trees grow 20m…
UoN The Hidden Half: Date Palm (Lulu) - Growth…
From Brian Atkinson
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Brachiaria ruziziensis, known as congo grass, is a tropical grass. In the tropics it is one of the most common feeds for livestock. The grass is native to Rwanda and…
UoN The Hidden Half: Congo Grass (Brachiaria…
From Brian Atkinson
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This Tepary bean, Phaseolus acutifolius, is native to Mexico and can grow in extremely dry conditions. Bean and pea plants both belong to the same family of plants…
UoN The Hidden Half: Bean (Tio canela)
From Brian Atkinson
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The Hounsfield Facility at the University of Nottingham Sutton Bonington campus houses our state-of-the-art X-ray computed tomography (CT) technology. This enables…
UoN Hounsfield Facility: Lego Movie
From Brian Atkinson
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Find out what research is being done into rail at the University of Nottingham.
Rail at Nottingham
From Debs Storey
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Find out what research is being done into Automotive at the University of Nottingham.
Automotive at Nottingham
From Debs Storey
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Find out what research is being done into Seamless and Intelligent Mobility at the University of Nottingham.
Seamless and Intelligent Mobility at Nottingham
From Debs Storey
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In our new industrial age, smart factories will deliver highly personalised goods and services. This demands profoundly new approaches to how we create, manufacture…
Towards smart production of smart products
From Debs Storey
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The University of Nottingham is the home of MRI and has an internationally leading position in biomedical imaging research. We aim to establish the University as a…
Transforming healthcare with pioneering imaging
From Debs Storey
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Propulsion in transport is on the cusp of a revolution and societies are being challenged to think differently about how we move people and goods. Our discoveries in…
At the heart of a revolution in greener transport
From Debs Storey
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In the face of climate change we must develop new, resilient crops. Yields must also increase to feed the additional two billion people expected by 2050. Future Food…
Exploring new ways to feed the world
From Debs Storey
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There are 46 million people enslaved around the world today. Yet we are at a tipping point: there is a global political commitment to ending slavery by 2030. Our…
Helping to end global slavery
From Debs Storey
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Today, many products are manufactured from fossil fuels using energy-intensive petrochemical technologies. We will spearhead the transformation of energy-intensive…
Securing the low carbon bio-economy of the future
From Debs Storey
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Researchers at The University Nottingham are placing green chemistry at the heart of innovation in food, medicine and every aspect of a sustainable future. More…
How chemistry can secure a sustainable future
From Robert Ounsworth
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We are the world's largest group of rights and justice scholars and advise governments and NGOs around the globe on the creation of sustainable, open and creative…
Securing rights and justice for all
From Robert Ounsworth
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Our multidisciplinary research tackles one of the key challenges facing the planet: how do we feed ourselves as the growing global population puts unsustainable pressure…
Securing the future of food
From Robert Ounsworth
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Innovative technologies help health services respond to huge challenges such as ageing populations and increases in chronic conditions. Find out how our cutting-edge…
Technology tackles health challenges
From Robert Ounsworth
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Nottingham's sustainable energy researchers on how new technologies and materials, systems and people can interact to secure a low-carbon future. More…
Securing a low-carbon future
From Robert Ounsworth
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There may be 5,185 miles between Rio de Janeiro and The University of Nottingham, but take a look at how our research and collaborative work with Brazil is changing the…
Nottingham working with Brazil to tackle the…
From Tom Travis
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Scientists at The University of Nottingham have demonstrated for the first time that it is possible to selectively sequence fragments of DNA in real time,…
Nottingham researchers show novel technique that…
From Faith Pring
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A computer scientist with a passion for horses has embarked on an interdisciplinary animal-computer interaction research project which could help us understand what…
Giving animals a voice.
From Elizabeth Cass
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A team of 32 University of Nottingham staff, students and friends set off this morning to cycle the Way of the Roses to help raise £1 million for life-changing…
...And they're off - Life Cycle 6 heads off…
From Elizabeth Cass
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Dr Sarah Pierce from the School of Life Sciences is on a mission. Sarah's the Open Air Laboratories Network (OPAL) community scientist for the Midlands region…
Take part in the UK POLLI:NATION Survey
From Faith Pring
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An international team of researchers has discovered a gene in snails that determines whether their shells twist clockwise or anti-clockwise – and could offer clues…
Snail shells offer clue in common origins of body…
From Faith Pring
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Traditional fruit gardens planted by indigenous communities in the Malaysian rainforest increase the diversity of the animals who make it their home. The study, led by…
Fruit gardens enhance mammal diversity and…
From Elizabeth Cass
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Dr Philip Oldfield from the Department of Architecture in the Faculty of Engineering at The University of Nottingham talks about his experience as a British Science…
Dr Philip Oldfield talks about being a 2015…
From Elizabeth Cass
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Dr Jon Henderson from the Department of Archaeology at The University of Nottingham talks about his experience as a British Science Media Fellow embedded with the…
Dr Jon Henderson talks about being one of the…
From Elizabeth Cass
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A well-known ‘superbug’ which was thought to have been a static or non-motile organism has been observed showing signs of active motility by scientists at…
Superbug colony behaviours revealed in time lapse…
From Faith Pring
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A new research team at The University of Nottingham is using MRI scans to learn more about the role of the cerebellum in Developmental Coordination Disorder (DCD)…
MRI scans could improve our understanding of…
From Elizabeth Cass
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Using their state-of-the-art simulation facility in the School of Psychology scientists at The University of Nottingham are exploring the use of car driving simulators…
Brains Behind the Wheel - could virtual reality…
From Elizabeth Cass
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Nottingham City Council have honoured Sir Peter Mansfield by naming one of their trams after him. Sir Peter, who won the Nobel Prize for his role in inventing the MRI…
Nobel Laureate Sir Peter Mansfield has Nottingham…
From Elizabeth Cass
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Is the game up for H. pylori. Researchers in the School of Pharmacy, at The University of Nottingham and AstraZeneca R&D have identified the molecular mechanism…
Revealed - Helicobacter pylori’s secret…
From Elizabeth Cass
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Dr Jasmeet Kaler at The University of Nottingham has been named this year’s Universities Federation for Animal Welfare’s (UFAW) Young Scientist of the…
Young Animal Welfare Scientist of the Year
From Elizabeth Cass
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Experts at The University of Nottingham have discovered the first fully synthetic material with potential to grow billions of stem cells. The discovery could forge the…
New material forges the way for ‘stem cell…
From Elizabeth Cass
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Pyoderma gangrenosum (PG) affects less than 400 people each year but it can be so severe in some cases it has led to amputation. The condition is so rare it is often…
Call for new treatments after first major study…
From Elizabeth Cass
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The answer to this question will help with the exploration of burial sites around Stonehenge as part of the €8m Stonehenge Hidden Landscape project. It is hoped…
How would you like to be buried – at…
From Elizabeth Cass
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Dr Ahmed Mohammed at The University of Nottingham Malaysia Campus is trying to find out if mindfulness can improve the mental health and wellbeing of young people.
Can a little loving kindness improve our mental…
From Elizabeth Cass
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Electric fences and trenches have proved to be the most effective way of protecting farms and villages from night time raids by hungry elephants. But researchers think…
Keeping hungry jumbos at bay
From Elizabeth Cass
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A one thousand year old Anglo-Saxon remedy for eye infections which originates from a manuscript in the British Library has been found to kill the modern-day superbug…
AncientBiotics — a medieval remedy for…
From Faith Pring
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Help us raise £350,000 to use our Nobel prize-winning expertise in MRI scanning to conduct world-leading research into dementia. To read more and to sponsor a…
Life Cycle 5 - gearing up to beat dementia
From Sarah Blythe
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Scientists at The University of Nottingham have identified the mechanism used by plants in stress conditions to sense low oxygen levels and used advanced breeding…
New tools to breed cereal crops that survive…
From Elizabeth Cass
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A short video of Jonathan Tallant discussing his recent work looking at the philosophy of time using art history.
The Philosophy of Time Using Art History
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The hormone-releasing Mirena coil intrauterine device (IUD) is a better treatment for heavy menstrual periods than other conventional medical approaches, according to…
Clinical trial shows IUD is best treatment for…
From Debs Storey
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Professor of Veterinary Surgery, Sarah Freeman, delivers her inaugural lecture on colic in horses.
Lecture: why do horses get colic?
From Debs Storey
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Hexapod without base platform for performing machining in-situ industrial installations: Free-leg Hexapod (FreeHex) construction and demo.
Development of Free Leg Hexapod (FreeHex)
From Georgina Barclay
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Using magnetic levitation to imitate weightlessness, researchers led by physicists at The University of Nottingham have manufactured solid wax models of splash…
Levitation recreates nature's dumbbells
From Elizabeth Cass
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A truly ground-breaking experiment at The University of Nottingham could herald the creation of graphene and boron nitride layers in a controlled way at a scale never…
Growing graphene – blue sky research…
From Elizabeth Cass
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Often seen as the ‘unsung heroes’ of Higher Education it is recognised that without technicians, institutions like The University of Nottingham would not be…
Raising the profile of technicians - HE’s…
From Elizabeth Cass
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Scientists who discovered a group of new materials capable of repelling bacteria have each won a prestigious research award worth a combined £2m to find out why.…
Bacteria resistant materials – £2m to…
From Elizabeth Cass
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A unique new architectural environment for people who practice yoga and meditation is planning to take this ancient discipline into the digital era. …
Breathing new life into the yoga experience
From Faith Pring
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Design and construct a low cost, zero carbon, family starter home, transport it to Spain, build it, landscape it and open it to the public. That was the challenge faced…
Zero carbon 'HOUSE' designed and built…
From Elizabeth Cass
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The Institute for Aerospace Technology (IAT) -- an internationally leading centre for aerospace research at the University -- is exhibiting at the Farnborough…
Nottingham will fly high at Farnborough
From Elizabeth Cass
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Every year the Faculty of Engineering holds an Engineering Research Showcase. This consists of two days of talks, workshops and panel discussions about topics that PhD…
Engineering PhD Madness!
From Debs Storey
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Palliative and end of life care could ease the suffering and distress of 100 million patients and their relatives a year across the world. Yet only a small minority…
Supporting Palliative and End of Life Care
From Debs Storey
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Muniirah Mbabazi, from Uganda, is researching nutrition policy in Uganda for her PhD. In the past she has also carried out research into sustainable diets,…
PhD student Muniirah Mbabazi is studying…
From Elizabeth Cass
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A lecturer in dietetics at The University of Nottingham has helped to start a campaign to encourage more men to consider taking up careers in the field of nutrition.…
‘Dietitians Week’: Where are all the…
From Elizabeth Cass
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One of the two prize winners speaking in the ‘Future generations’session of this year's UK PlantSci event organised by UK Plant Sciences Federation was…
Talk on Bambara Groundnut impresses at UK…
From Elizabeth Cass
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The first major exhibition on Vikings at the British Museum for over 30 years which opened on 6 March in London highlights a new research project by Viking experts at…
British Museum Vikings exhibition helps…
From Faith Pring
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The University of Nottingham is involved in a European wide study which aims to identify and learn more about the biological and environmental factors that might…
The teenage brain – work in progress
From Elizabeth Cass
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Students from The University of Nottingham Malaysia Campus (UNMC) are developing their leadership and management skills by running education and healthcare workshops…
UNMC students at work in the Orang Asli community
From Faith Pring
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Rowan Harwood, Professor of Geriatric Medicine, discusses the ways in which hospitals can provide good care for people with dementia.
IDEA - What is good dementia care in hospital?
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An explanation of the IDEA (Improving Dementia Education and Awareness) website and how the site can enable improvement in the quality of dementia care. Find out more at…
IDEA - What is IDEA?
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Emma Hutton, occupational therapist, explains the key aspects of person centred care.
IDEA - What is good dementia care?
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Rowan Harwood, Professor of Geriatric Medicine, gives an overview of the symptoms of delirium.
IDEA - What is delirium?
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As the latest Warner Bros fantasy blockbuster, The Hobbit, hits the cinema screens, Dr Alison Milbank of the University's Department of Theology and Religious…
The Hobbit - an unexpected theological journey
From Faith Pring
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A study by psychologists at The University of Nottingham has shown that babies who are weaned using solid finger food are more likely to develop healthier food…
Baby knows best when it comes to weaning.
From Faith Pring
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After the wettest winter on record, Colin Thorne, Professor of Physical Geography at The University of Nottingham, talks about what can be done to stop our homes…
What can we do to keep our heads above water?
From Elizabeth Cass
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