The University of Nottingham is a public

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, England. It was founded as University College Nottingham in 1881, and was granted a

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in 1948. Nottingham's main campus ( University Park) with Jubilee Campus and teaching hospital ( Queen's Medical Centre) are located within the City of Nottingham, with a number of smaller campuses and sites elsewhere in

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and Derbyshire. Outside the UK, the university has campuses in Semenyih, Malaysia, and Ningbo, China. Nottingham is organised into five constituent faculties, within which there are more than 50 schools, departments, institutes and research centres. Nottingham has more than 46,000 students and 7,000 staff across the UK, China and Malaysia and had an income of £834.7 million in 2023–24, of which £141.6 million was from research grants and contracts, with an expenditure of £615.3 million. The institution's alumni have been awarded one Nobel Prize, a Fields Medal, and a Gabor Medal and Prize. The university is a member of the

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, Universities UK, the Virgo Consortium, and participates in the Sutton Trust Summer School programme as a member of the Sutton 30. In November 2023, it was announced that the University of Nottingham had become the first university in the UK to be awarded an Athena SWAN Gold Award for its commitment to advancing gender equality.

History

Founding

The University of Nottingham traces its origins to both the founding of an adult education school in 1798, and the University Extension Lectures inaugurated by the

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in 1873—the first of their kind in the country. However, the foundation of the university is generally regarded as being the establishment of University College Nottingham, in 1881 as a college preparing students for examinations of the

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. In 1875, an anonymous donor provided £10,000 to establish the work of the Adult Education School and Cambridge Extension Lectures on a permanent basis, and the Corporation of Nottingham agreed to erect and maintain a building for this purpose and to provide funds to supply the instruction. The foundation stone of the college was duly laid in 1877 by the former Prime Minister

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, and the college's neo-gothic building on Shakespeare Street was formally opened in 1881 by Prince Leopold, Duke of Albany. In 1881, there were four professors – of Literature, Physics, Chemistry and Natural Science. New departments and chairs quickly followed: Engineering in 1884, Classics combined with Philosophy in 1893, French in 1897 and Education in 1905; in 1905 the combined Department of Physics and Mathematics became two separate entities; in 1911 Departments of English and Mining were created, in 1912, Economics, and Geology combined with Geography; History in 1914, Adult Education in 1923 and Pharmacy in 1925.

Development

The university college underwent significant expansion in the 1920s, when it moved from the centre of Nottingham to a large campus on the city's outskirts. The new campus, called University Park, was completed in 1928, and financed by an endowment fund, public contributions, and the generosity of Sir Jesse Boot (later Lord Trent) who presented to the City of Nottingham in 1921. Boot and his fellow benefactors sought to establish an "elite seat of learning" committed to widening participation, and hoped that the move would solve the problems facing University College Nottingham, in its restricted building on Shakespeare Street. Boot stipulated that, whilst part of the Highfields site, lying south-west of the city, should be devoted to the University College, the rest should provide a place of recreation for the residents of the city, and, by the end of the decade, the landscaping of the lake and public park adjoining University Boulevard was completed. The original University College building on Shakespeare Street in central Nottingham, known as the Arkwright Building, now forms part of Nottingham Trent University's City Campus. The University of Nottingham Hallward Library

The University of Nottingham Hallward Library

University College Nottingham was initially accommodated within the Trent Building, an imposing white limestone structure with a distinctive clock tower, designed by Morley Horder, and formally opened by

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on 10 July 1928. During this period of development, Nottingham attracted high-profile lecturers, including

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, and

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. The blackboard used by Einstein during his time at Nottingham is still on display in the Physics department. Trent Building and Lake

Apart from its physical transfer to surroundings that could not be more different from its original home, the college made few developments between the wars. The Department of Slavonic Languages (later Slavonic Studies) was established in 1933, the teaching of Russian having been introduced in 1916. In 1933–34, the Departments of Electrical Engineering, Zoology and Geography, which had been combined with other subjects, were made independent; and in 1938 a supplemental Charter provided for a much wider representation on the Governing Body. However, further advances were delayed by the outbreak of war in 1939.

University status

University College Nottingham students received their degrees from the University of London. However, in 1943, the university was granted its

which endowed it with university status and gave it the power to confer degrees. In 1948 University College Nottingham was incorporated as the University of Nottingham. In the 1940s, the Midlands Agricultural and Dairy College at Sutton Bonington merged with the university as the School of Agriculture, and in 1956 the Portland Building was completed to complement the Trent Building. In 1970, the university established the UK's first new medical school of the 20th century. In 1999, Jubilee Campus was opened on the former site of the Raleigh Bicycle Company, one mile (1.6 km) away from the University Park Campus. Nottingham then began to expand overseas, opening campuses in

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and in China in 1999 and 2004 respectively. In 2005, the King's Meadow Campus opened near University Park. The university has used several logos throughout its history, beginning with its coat of arms. Later, Nottingham adopted a simpler logo, in which a stylised version of Nottingham Castle was surrounded by the text "The University of Nottingham". In 2001 Nottingham undertook a major re-branding exercise, which included replacing the logo with the current one.

Campuses

UK campuses

University Park Campus

University Park Campus, to the west of Nottingham city centre, is the main campus of the University of Nottingham. Set around its lake and clock-tower and with extensive parkland greenery, University Park has won numerous awards for its architecture and landscaping, and has been named the greenest campus in the country in a Green Flag Award. At the south entrance to the main campus, in Highfields Park, lies the Lakeside Arts Centre, the university's public arts facility and performance space. The D.H. Lawrence Pavilion houses a range of cultural facilities, including a 225 capacity theatre space, a series of craft cabinets, the Weston Gallery (which displays the university's manuscript collection), the Wallner gallery, which exists as a platform for local and regional artists, and a series of visual arts, performance and hospitality spaces. Other nearby facilities include the Djanogly Art Gallery, Recital Hall and Theatre, which in the past have hosted recordings and broadcasts by BBC Radio 3, local community theatre partnerships, contemporary art exhibitions, and cultural festivals.

Jubilee Campus

Jubilee Campus, designed by Sir Michael Hopkins, was opened by

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in 1999, and is approximately from University Park. The campus' facilities house the Schools of Education and Computer Science, and The Nottingham University Business School. The site is also the home of The National College for School Leadership. Additional investment of £9.2 million in Jubilee Campus was completed in 2004, with a second building for Nottingham University Business School opened by Lord Sainsbury. The environmentally friendly nature of the campus and its buildings have been a factor in the awards that it has received, including the Millennium Marque Award for Environmental Excellence, the British Construction Industry Building Project of the Year, the RIBA Journal Sustainability Award, and the Civic Trust Award for Sustainability. Jubilee Campus MMB Z7 Djanogly LRC and The Exchange

Jubilee Campus MMB Z7 Djanogly LRC and The Exchange

The Jubilee Campus won the commendation of the Energy Globe Award judges in 2005. The campus is distinct for its modern and unique architecture, culminating in Aspire, a 60-metre tall artistic structure is the tallest freestanding structure in the UK. The university plans to invest £200 million in a new scheme designed by Ken Shuttleworth, designer of the London ' Gherkin' and founder of Make Architects. However, the architecture of the Jubilee Campus is not admired by all, and the newly completed Amenities Building and YANG Fujia Building have been labelled the second worst new architectural design in Britain in a survey. A fire in September 2014 destroyed the GlaxoSmithKline building which was under construction, but it was rebuilt and officially opened in 2017.

Other campuses

The City Hospital Campus houses staff and postgraduate students specialising in respiratory medicine, stroke medicine, oncology, physiotherapy, and public health. The campus was expanded in 2009 to house a new institute of public health and a specialist centre for tobacco research. Sutton Bonington Campus houses Nottingham's School of Biosciences and the School of Veterinary Medicine and Science, and is about south of the City of Nottingham, between the M1 motorway, Ratcliffe-on-Soar Power Station, and the

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railway. The campus is centred on the historic manor of Sutton Bonington and retains many of its own botanic gardens and lakes. The University Farm, including the Dairy Centre, is at the Sutton Bonington Campus. Main Building Sutton Bonington 2011

King's Meadow Campus was established in 2005 on the former

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Studios site on Lenton Lane. It mainly accommodates administrative functions, but also the Department of Manuscripts and Special Collections. A functioning television studio remains at the site, that continues to be rented to the film and television industry. Castle Meadow Campus is a 3.75-hectare site below Nottingham Castle, purchased by the university in 2021, having been previously owned by HMRC (HM Revenue and Customs). Existing buildings are to be refurbished with the campus planned to open from 2023. Inland Revenue buildings and Nottingham Castle - geograph

Inland Revenue buildings and Nottingham Castle - geograph

International campuses

Nottingham has introduced overseas campuses as part of a growth strategy. The first stage in this strategy was the establishment in 1999 of a campus in Semenyih, Selangor, Malaysia, a short distance from

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. This was followed in 2004 by a campus in Ningbo, Zhejiang Province, China. The Malaysia campus was the first campus of a British university in Malaysia and one of the first anywhere in the world, earning the Queen's Award for Enterprise 2001 and the Queen's Award for Industry (International Trade) 2006. In September 2005, the Malaysia campus moved to a purpose-built campus at Semenyih, south of Kuala Lumpur city centre. The £40 million Ningbo campus was completed in 2005, and was officially opened by John Prescott, the UK's Deputy Prime Minister, in February 2006. Like the Malaysia Campus, Ningbo Campus builds on the University Park in the UK and includes a lake, its own version of Nottingham's famous Trent Building, and the Centre for Sustainable Energy Technologies (CSET), China's first zero-carbon building. In November 2012, the university launched a new joint venture in collaboration with the East China University of Science and Technology: the Shanghai Nottingham Advanced Academy (SNAA). The SNAA will deliver joint courses in Shanghai including periods of study in Nottingham, with teaching and research at undergraduate, postgraduate, and doctoral levels.

Organisation and administration

Governance

The chief officer is the

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, elected by the University Court on the recommendation of the University Council. The chief academic and administrative officer is the

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, who is assisted by Pro-Vice-Chancellors. The governing body is the University Council, which has 35 members and is mostly non-academic. The academic authority is the Senate, consisting of senior academics and elected staff and student representatives. The largest forum is the University Court, presided over by the Chancellor. The outgoing Registrar is Paul Greatrix, who finishes in post at the end of 2024.

Chancellors

The following have served as Chancellor of the university: * 1949–1954: John Boot, 2nd Baron Trent * 1954–1971: William Cavendish-Bentinck, 7th Duke of Portland * 1971–1978: Sir Francis Hill * 1978–1993: Sir Gordon Hobday * 1993–2000: Ronald Dearing, Baron Dearing * 2000–2013: Yang Fujia * 2013–2017: Sir Andrew Witty * 2020−present: Lola Young, Baroness Young of Hornsey

Vice-Chancellors

The following have served as Vice-Chancellor of the university: * 1948–1965: Bertrand Hallward * 1965–1970: Frederick Dainton * 1971–1975: John Butterfield * 1976–1988: Basil Weedon * 1988–2008: Sir Colin Campbell * 2008–2017: Sir David Greenaway * 2017–2024: Shearer West On 16 December 2024 the university's current Provost and Deputy Vice-Chancellor, Professor Jane Norman, was announced as the next Vice-Chancellor. She had been acting as interim Vice-Chancellor since Shearer West's resignation and began her new role on 1 January 2025.

Faculties and departments

The university is made up of a number of schools and departments organised into five faculties: Arts, Engineering, Medicine and Health Sciences, Science, and Social Science. Each faculty encompasses a number of schools and departments. ;Faculty of Arts * Cultures, Languages & Area Studies: comprising the following Departments - American & Canadian Studies, Cultural, Media & Visual Studies, Liberal Arts, Modern Languages & Cultures * English * Humanities: comprising the following Departments - Classics & Archaeology, Foundation Arts, History, Music, Philosophy ;Faculty of Engineering * Architecture and Built Environment * Chemical and Environmental Engineering * Civil Engineering * Foundation Engineering and Physical Sciences * Electrical and Electronic Engineering * Mechanical, Materials and Manufacturing Engineering ;Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences * Health Sciences * Life Sciences *

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* Veterinary Medicine and Science ;Faculty of Science * Biosciences * Chemistry * Computer Science * Mathematical Sciences *

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* Physics and Astronomy * Psychology ;Faculty of Social Sciences * Economics * Education * Geography * Law * Nottingham University Business School * Politics and International Relations * Sociology and Social Policy

Finances

In the financial year ending 31 July 2024, Nottingham had a total income of £834.7 million (2022/23 – £811.2 million) and total expenditure of £615.3 million (2022/23 – £763.8 million). Key sources of income included £437.5 million from tuition fees and education contracts (2022/23 – £435.4 million), £120.7 million from funding body grants (2022/23 – £118.7 million), £141.6 million from research grants and contracts (2022/23 – £129.5 million), £3.5 million from investment income (2022/23 – £3.6 million) and £4.2 million from donations and endowments (2022/23 – £2.8 million). At year end, Nottingham had endowments of £78.1 million (2023 – £72.5 million) and total net assets of £783.5 million (2023 – £574.1 million).

Academic profile

Academics

The university is a member of the

of research-led British universities, and the '' Sutton 13'' group of top-ranked universities in the UK. Sutton Trust universities are regarded as the UK's "most prestigious", "elite" and "most selective" universities offering around 30,000 places annually. The 13 universities are used as a benchmark for monitoring social mobility by academics, educational organisations and the government. Nottingham is a research-led institution, and two academics connected with the university were awarded Nobel Prizes in 2003. Clive Granger was jointly awarded the Nobel Prize in Economics. Much of the work on

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(MRI) was carried out at Nottingham, work for which Sir Peter Mansfield received the Nobel Prize for Medicine in 2003. Nottingham remains a strong centre for research into MRI. The university has contributed to a number of other significant scientific advances. Frederick Kipping, professor of chemistry (1897–1936), made the discovery of

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polymers at Nottingham. Major developments in the

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culture of plants and micropropogation techniques were made by plant scientists at Nottingham, along with the first production of transgenic tomatoes by Don Grierson in the 1980s. Other innovations at the university include cochlear implants for deaf children and the brace-for-impact position used in aircraft. In 2015, the Assemble collective, of which the part-time Architecture Department tutor Joseph Halligan is a member, won the

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, Europe's most prestigious art award. Other facilities at Nottingham include a 46 teraflop supercomputer. Nottingham was ranked joint 23rd in the UK amongst multi-faculty institutions for the quality (GPA) of its research and 8th for its Research Power in the 2014 Research Excellence Framework. More than 80 per cent of research at the university was described as "world-leading" or "internationally excellent" in the UK Funding Councils' 2014 Research Excellence Framework, with 28 out of 32 returns having at least 75 per cent of impact that was either "outstanding" or "very considerable" – ranking the university 7th in the UK on this measure. Nottingham is also in the top seven universities in Britain for the amount of research income received, being awarded over £40 million in research contracts for the 2015–2016 academic year by UK Research Councils, and £159 million in total research awards income. The university is home to the Leverhume Centre for Research on Globalisation and Economic Policy (GEP). GEP was established in the Nottingham School of Economics in 2001, and conducts research activities structured on the theme of globalisation.

Admissions

According to the latest statistics () compiled by the

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, Nottingham is the UK's largest university based on total student enrolment with students; from more than 130 countries. 20% of Nottingham's undergraduates are privately educated, the 17th highest proportion among mainstream British universities. In the 2016–17 academic year, the university had a domicile breakdown of 78:5:17 of UK:EU:non-EU students respectively with a female to male ratio of 55:45. The university gave offers of admission to 67.7% of its undergraduate applicants in 2022, the 50th lowest offer rate across the country. According to ''

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'' and ''The Sunday Times'' League Table 2015, the university received 7.3 applications for every place available, placing it joint 14th in the UK (tied with Edinburgh Napier University) for the 'Most Competition for Places'. For the 2013–14 admissions cycle, the average successful applicant attained 426 UCAS points (the equivalent of ABB at A Level and BB at AS Level), ranking it as the 22nd highest amongst higher educational institutes.

Rankings and reputation

The university was named ''Times Higher Education'' " University of the Year" in 2006, ''Times Higher Education'' "Entrepreneurial University of the Year" in 2008, and finished runner up in the 2010 '' Sunday Times'' "University of the Year". In 2016–17, Nottingham was named 'University of the Year' for graduate employment by ''The Sunday Times''. Nottingham is described by the Fulbright Commission as "one of the UK's oldest, largest, and most prestigious universities". In 2019, it ranked 126th among the universities around the world by '' SCImago Institutions Rankings''. In the 2021 Research Excellence Framework (REF), which assesses the quality of research in UK higher education institutions, Nottingham is ranked joint 25th by GPA and 7th for research power (the grade point average score of a university, multiplied by the full-time equivalent number of researchers submitted). The 2024 QS University Ranking placed Nottingham University 100th globally and 17th nationally. Nottingham is ranked 2nd in the UK (after Oxford) and 13th in the world in terms of the number of alumni listed among CEOs of the 500 largest companies worldwide. The 2015 Global Employability University Ranking places Nottingham 78th in the world and 11th in the UK. In 2019, Nottingham was ranked Europe's 87nd 'Most Innovative University'. Subject Rankings 2025 UK Complete University Guide: Subject League Tables * #4 for Veterinary Medicine * #6 for Chemical Engineering * #7 for Aeronautical and Aerospace Engineering * #7 for Education * #7 for Pharmacology and Pharmacy * #8 for Architecture * #8 for Nursing and Midwifery * #10 for Law * #11 for Sports Science * #11 for Theology and Religious Studies * #12 for Economics * #12 for Sociology 2024 Times Higher Education (THE) World University Rankings: By Subject * #8 in the UK and #45 worldwide for Law * #9 in the UK and #75 worldwide for Business & Economics * #9 in the UK and #68 worldwide for Education * #10 in the UK and #98 worldwide for Engineering * #12 in the UK and #77 worldwide for Clinical & Health * #14 in the UK and #95 worldwide for Psychology

Student life

Students' Union

The University of Nottingham Students' Union is heavily involved with providing student activities at the university and has more than 190 student societies affiliated to it. A further 76 clubs are affiliated to the Students' Union's Sports Committee. Nottingham participates yearly in the Varsity Series, a number of sporting events between the students and staff of the university and traditional rivals Loughborough University and Nottingham Trent University. The student newspaper '' Impact'' is published regularly during term time. The Students' Union radio station is

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. A range of student theatre takes place at The New Theatre. The Students' Union also operates a student-run professional sound and lighting company, TEC PA & Lighting, who provide services for many events such as graduation, balls, and many other events, both within the university and to external clients. The Students' Union also organises a number of activities and events involving students and staff with the local community. The Student Volunteer Centre sees more than 4500 students each year volunteering in local schools and community organisations, as well as a range of other projects throughout the city of Nottingham. The Union has the largest student-run RAG organisation outside of the US, "Karnival" (abbreviated to "Karni"), which raised £1.61 million in 2012. The Students' Union also runs an international volunteering project, InterVol, which sends student volunteers to work in rural African communities. Karnival also ran "RAG raids", a format of charity fundraising in other cities, which proved to be one of the most profitable charity sources for the university with notably a single RAG raid in 2014 raising £66,552.72 for the Poppy Appeal. However, in April 2017 the raids were controversially banned by the students' union over the fears for the safety on students.

Halls of residence

The University of Nottingham has a system of halls located on its campus. The halls are generally named either after counties, districts, or places in the East Midlands or significant people associated with the university. File:University Park MMB S7 Cripps Hall.jpg, Cripps Hall, one of the university's undergraduate halls of residence File:Hugh Stewart Hall.jpg, Hugh Stewart Hall File:University Park MMB D0 Florence Boot Hall.jpg, Florence Boot Hall (pictured) is the oldest hall of residence at the university. It is named after Florence Boot, the wife of Jesse Boot who was a major benefactor to the university University Park MMB 88 Lenton Hurst

Sport

The David Ross Sports Village is a multi-sport facility, which opened in October 2016. File:University Park MMB 71 Swimming Pool.jpg, The David Ross Sports Village at University Park features a 25m eight-lane pool, a hydrotherapy pool, and a luxurious Health and Wellbeing Suite File:WTA 250 Nottingham Open 2021 - Nottingham Tennis Centre.jpg, Nottingham Tennis Centre, lies adjacent to the Highfields Sports Complex and University Park Campus respectively and holds the annual Nottingham Open tournament

Controversies

'Nottingham Two'

On 14 May 2008, Hicham Yezza, a member of staff, and Rizwaan Sabir, a postgraduate student, were arrested at the University of Nottingham and were detained for six days under the Terrorism Act 2000. The university informed the police after finding an edited version of the

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training manual the student was using for his research. Both were released without charge from terrorism offences. In September 2011, Rizwaan Sabir was awarded £20,000 compensation for false imprisonment by Nottinghamshire Police. The university came under criticism after the only professor involved in terrorism studies at the institution, Rod Thornton, decided that, because of the university's lack of guidance to him regarding their position over possession of terrorist publications, he was no longer willing to risk possible arrest by teaching terrorism studies at the university, although he would continue in his other responsibilities. As a result, terrorism studies are no longer being taught at the University of Nottingham. For a 2011 conference of the British International Studies Association, Thornton prepared a paper which alleged the university had engaged in systematic persecution against Yezza, Sabir, and junior academics in the department. One of Thornton's colleagues at Nottingham complained to BISA about alleged defamatory content of Thornton's paper, and a spokesman for the university called it "highly defamatory of a number of his colleagues". The paper was later removed from BISA's website., In early May 2011, Thornton was suspended by the university for the "breakdown in working relationships" caused by the paper. In an open letter published in ''

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'', 67 international researchers including

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asked for Thornton's reinstatement and an independent examination of the university's actions, saying that Thornton's paper "carefully details what appear to be examples of serious misconduct from senior university management over the arrest of two university members"., , In 2011, a campaign was launched calling for the reinstatement of Rod Thornton and for a public inquiry into the university's actions. In March 2012 it was announced that Thornton was leaving his job as a lecturer at Nottingham, and that, "for his part, Dr Thornton accepts that the article which he published on the BISA website in April 2011 contained a number of inaccuracies." Thornton apologized for any offence he might have caused.

COVID-19 pandemic response

In the 2020–21 academic year, students of the University of Nottingham organised large-scale campaigning against the university management team and specifically the Vice-Chancellor, Shearer West, for wider academic, welfare, and financial support for students, due to the on-going

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. As of 4 February, the university administration initiated a safety net policy, for a variety of assignment types, in partial compliance with student demands. However demands for a wider university policy to support students with welfare support have yet to be made, with further complaints arising due to minimal financial support being provided to home students and additional issues arising for international students - resulting in a number of go-fund me pages being created to help international students pay their tuition. Student campaigners are yet to comment on the development of this situation.

Attitudes towards Catholicism

At the start of the 2021–22 academic year, Patrick McKinney, Bishop of Nottingham, appointed Fr David Palmer to position of Catholic Chaplain to the university. The university actively blocked his appointment on the basis of his views on

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and

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. This triggered mass international criticism, including from Ann Furedi, a former chief executive of the British Pregnancy Advisory Service with strongly pro-choice views, who described the decision as "stupid" and stated "I disagree with his views on abortion but as a Catholic priest he's expressing a mainstream Catholic view. Universities can't tell chaplains what religious beliefs to express". Fr Palmer's criticism of abortion and euthanasia were entirely in line with the Catholic Church's teaching. The university are yet to comment on the development of this situation or the media coverage which it has generated.

Notable people

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The university has been associated with a range of notable alumni and staff in a number of disciplines: Nobel Prize or Fields Medal winners; Sir Clive Granger – Nobel Prize in Economics, Sir Peter Mansfield –

for contributions to

, Andre Geim – Nobel Prize–winning physicist, and Caucher Birkar – Fields Medal–winning mathematician.

Academics

* Stewart Adams – contributor to the development of ibuprofen * Sophie Harker – winner of IET's 2018 Young Women Engineer of the Year Award and the Sir Henry Royce Medal. * Sir Ian Kershaw – historian * Jeremy Lawrance – professor of

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studies'LAWRANCE, Prof. Jeremy Norcliffe Haslehurst', in ''Who's Who 2014'' (London: A. & C. Black)
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by Oxford University Press, December 2013. Retrieved 3 May 2014 (subscription site) * Morley Muse - founder of iSTEM, and winner of 2022 Women's Agenda Leadership Award - Emerging leader in STEM awards. * Sir Keith O'Nions – ex-president and rector of Imperial College London * Monica Partridge – in 1967 was the first woman at Nottingham to be made a professor * Ivy Pinchbeck – economic and social historian of women * Sir Martyn Poliakoff – professor in chemistry and featured in ''Periodic Table of Videos'' * Sir

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– geologist * Milton Wainwright – microbiologist * Helen Willetts – meteorologist

Arts and media

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* Emma Barnett – journalist, presenter of BBC '' Newsnight'' and '' Woman's Hour'' * Graham Dury – cartoonist * Andrew Grima – British jewellery designer * Haydn Gwynne – actress * Theo James – actor * D. H. Lawrence – writer * John Peel – writer * Susannah K. Quinn – author * Clive Tyldesley – football commentator * Ruth Wilson – actress * Levison Wood – Explorer, photographer and journalist * Charlie Ireland – a professional agronomist and land agent featured (as himself) on the series '' Clarkson's Farm''

Business

* Kweku Adoboli – UBS rogue trader of "the biggest fraud in British history" * Jonathan Browning – former president and CEO of Volkswagen Group of America * Steve Holliday – former CEO of National Grid plc * Tim Martin – founder and chairman of J D Wetherspoon * Peter Rice – President of 21st Century Fox * John Rishton – former CEO of Rolls-Royce plc * David Ross – co-founder of The Carphone Warehouse *

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– CEO of the

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* John Timpson – Chairman of Timpson * Sir Andrew Witty – former CEO of GlaxoSmithKline * Tan Sir Francis Yeoh (Honorary Doctor of Laws) – Managing Director of YTL Corp Berhad Group * Ruth Yeoh – Executive Director of YTL Singapore * Simon Nixon – billionaire businessman, co-founder of Moneysupermarket.com, dropped out

Politics and public service

* Tedros Adhanom – Director General of the World Health Organization * Azlan Shah of Perak – 9th

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of Malaysia (King of Malaysia) * Jeremy Browne – former

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for the

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* Paul Dibb – Australian strategist and former Director of the Joint Intelligence Organisation * Michael Dugher – former Shadow Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport * Judith Gough - ambassador *

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- former Secretary of State for Transport * Ja'afar of Negeri Sembilan – 10th

of Malaysia (King of Malaysia) * Wei Shen Lim KBE - MBBS (1991), Chair, Covid-19 Immunisation UK and cofounded the CURB-65 pneumonia severity assessment * Anthony Joseph Lloyd – former Mayor of Greater Manchester and MP * Divya Maderna – Member of Legislative Assembly of Rajasthan * Kemebradikumo Pondei – acting managing director of Niger Delta Development Commission * Najib Razak – former Prime Minister of

* Sir John Sawers – former head of MI6 * Mazen Sinokrot – Minister of Economy,

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* Mikhail Svetov – Russian politician, one of the main ideologists and popularizers of

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in Russia *

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– Canada's Chief Public Health Officer * Dennis Tan – LLB (1994), Member of Parliament ( Worker's Party), Singapore * Ahmad Tavakkoli – Iranian politician * Stuart Young, 8th Prime Minister of Trinidad and Tobago * Jonathan Van-Tam – Deputy Chief Medical Officer for England

Legal

* Punch Coomaraswamy – Supreme Court Judge (Singapore) and Ambassador of Singapore to the United States * Sir John Cyril Smith – criminal lawyer * Sir Nigel Sweeney – High Court judge

Notes and references

Bibliography

* Fawcett, Peter and Neil Jackson (1998). ''Campus critique: the architecture of the University of Nottingham''. Nottingham: University of Nottingham. * Tolley, B. H. (2001). ''The history of the University of Nottingham''. Nottingham: Nottingham University Press.
Derek Winterbottom, ''Bertrand Hallward: First Vice-Chancellor of the University of Nottingham, 1948-1965. A Biography'' (The University of Nottingham, Nottingham, 1995)

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