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It remains to be seen precisely how and why the Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17 crashed over the territory of the self-proclaimed “Donetsk People’s Republic” in eastern Ukraine on Thursday. But whatever…
The challenges of growing enough food to feed the world have grown more severe in the 21st century. We need to feed more people with limited agricultural land and resources. We need to make better use…
David Cameron’s cabinet reshuffle has been substantial. Nowhere more so than in education, where both the secretary of state for education, Michael Gove, and the minister responsible for universities and…
Everyone’s favourite property expert and house hunter extraordinaire, Kirstie Allsopp, raised some eyebrows when she recently suggested that women’s fertility “falls off a cliff” when they hit 35. Her…
Three decades since the onset of the infection in a global population, HIV care and treatment is looking very different. Given the difficulties involved, it is remarkable that having developed good treatments…
On July 5, the Daily Mail mounted yet another attack on the pesky human rights folk who have the temerity to question the coalition government’s welfare agenda. The article, headlined “The Brazil Nut strikes…
With the world focused on ISIS and Iraq, last month US Special Forces carried out a capture operation in Libya against Ahmed Abu Khattala, the suspected ringleader of the 2012 attacks in Benghazi. The…
A new study of the DNA of Tibetans has looked at the gene underlying their ability to live in the low-oxygen conditions at high altitudes. It found that this gene has come from an unexpected source – the…
Whisper it, but consumer faith in the finance industry might just be on the rebound. Finally, as economic conditions become more benign, our perceptions of the people we rely on to look after our wealth…
The search for Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 goes on. According to Angus Houston, the retired Australian air force officer co-ordinating the hunt, it could take two years to locate the wreckage. The phrase…
There is an up-and-coming set of technologies that uses the strange properties of atomic particles predicted by the theory of quantum mechanics, which is the physics of the very small stuff. This technology…
I downloaded a new keyboard onto my phone yesterday and was pleasantly surprised to see it suggesting the word “to” after I had typed “going”. It “knew” that the phrase “going to” was a very common pair…
When Hurricane Sandy struck New York in 2012, it was a brutal wake up call for the Big Apple. That call should have also been heard by the citizens of every other coastal city and those responsible for…
The city of Famagusta in Cyprus lies empty, as it has since the 1974 invasion that divided the island into north and south. The city its former inhabitants left behind is now a ghost town, streets overgrown…
Nearly a third of all the food produced in the world is lost or wasted, according to the UN’s World Resources Institute. If we convert this mass into calories, it constitutes nearly a quarter of all food…
A new survey has found teachers remain divided over proposals to link their pay increases to the performance of pupils in their class. A small majority – 53% of 1,163 primary and secondary school teachers…
It will be some time in the early hours of Friday morning until we discover whether Newark will join the list of shock by-election results. But whatever the outcome, we doubt it will be as remarkable as…
Thankfully, nobody speaks academic English as a first language. The English of the university is a very particular form that has specific features and conventions. Sometimes, this is just referred to as…
The Queen’s Speech marks the start of the fourth and final session of the 2010 Parliament. Final sessions are usually relatively uncontroversial. An approaching general election has traditionally calmed…
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Research Fellow, Ecotoxicology, School of Veterinary Medicine and Science, University of Nottingham
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Professor of Post-harvest Biotechnology & Nutrition and Director, Centre of Excellence for Post-harvest Biotechnology (CEPB), University of Nottingham
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Professor of Operations Management, University of Nottingham
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Rights Lab Assistant Professor in Operations Management, University of Nottingham
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Associate Professor in International Relations, University of Nottingham
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Assistant Professor of Business Economics, University of Nottingham
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Honorary Research Fellow, Department of Classics and Archaeology, University of Nottingham
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Associate Professor in History of Art, University of Nottingham
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Associate Professor in Media and Political Communication, University of Nottingham
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Assistant Professor in Film and Screen Studies, University of Nottingham
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PhD in English literature, University of Nottingham
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Assistant Professor in Law, University of Nottingham
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Professor of Developmental Psychology, University of Nottingham
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AHRC Funded Post-Doctoral Research Fellow in History, University of Nottingham
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Professor of Education, University of Nottingham
