Research
The university’s teaching is underpinned by its research. Its world-leading research ranges from cancer immunotherapy and airport security systems to social policy and cultural studies, and the university is currently holding £22 million in research grants and contracts.(Financial Year 2008/09.) The University held its own in the 2008 Research Assessment Exercise, although it entered fewer academics than some of the other leading new universities.
The John van Geest Cancer Research Centre was established in 2008, as a new research centre within the School of Science and Technology, as a direct result of core funding from the John and Lucille van Geest Foundation. The School of Science and Technology is host to research facilities including the Interdisciplinary Biomedical Research Centre, the Natural Sciences Research Centre, the Imaging and Display Research Facility and the Van Geest Cancer Research Centre; for physiological and sport related research the School boasts an Environmental Chamber capable of replicating extreme environmental conditions. The School of Animal, Rural and Environmental Sciences has a greenhouse, Veterinary Nursing Centre and Animal Unit.
The university is home to the following research units:
- Betting Research Unit
- Political Forecasting Unit
- International Fraud Prevention Research Centre
- International Centre for Public Services Management
- International Centre for Talent Management and Development
- Centre for Business Performance and Lean Leadership
- Communication for Inclusion Research Unit (CIRU)
- Emergency Services Research Unit (ESRU)
- Nottingham Crime Research Unit
- Nottingham Centre for Study and Reduction of Hate Crimes, Bias and Prejudice
- Sexual Offences, Crime and Misconduct Research Unit (SOCAMRU)
- Specific Language Impairment Research Unit (SLIRU)
- The International Gaming Research Unit (IGRU)
- Advanced Design and Manufacturing Engineering
- Centre for Research in Advanced Textiles (CReATe): containing the Advanced Fibre Materials; Textiles Practice; Textile Collections and Archives research groups
- ICAn - Institute for Cultural Analysis
- Strategy in Communication (SinC)
- Theory, Culture & Society Centre
- NIfER
- Raymond Williams Centre for Recovery Research
- Centre for Colonial and Postcolonial Studies
- Centre for Travel Writing Studies
- Centre for Research in the Romantic Era
- Centre for Creative Writing
- Contesting Euro Visions
- ReFrance: Contemporary French Studies
- Energy and Environmental Security
- Teaching and Learning Languages
- Energy and Environmental Security
- Centre for Museum and Heritage Management
- The Centre for Legal Research
- Biomedical, Life and Heath Sciences Research Centre
- The John Van Geest Research Centre
- Physical Sciences, Engineering and Computing Research Centre
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