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And you’ve got to follow the Uni’s Insta for plenty of gorgeous pics like the ones on the next page! uniofnottingham Add uniofnottingham See all our channels at on Snapchat for room tours, societies and ‘day nottingham.ac.uk/connect in the life’ takeovers 10 11 Meet your academics Professor Ross Wilson Director of Liberal Arts, Faculty of Arts Ross’ research examines how people create a sense of place and understanding in the past, the present and how they imagine the future. Reflecting the breadth of the liberal arts programme, it focuses on the introduction of new technologies, terminologies and scientific developments in the modern era and how individuals, groups and societies have used these changes to alter politics Exceed it and culture. Learn from research pioneers Dr Tanvir Hussain Professor Liz Sockett Professor in Life Sciences, Discover your potential Assistant Professor in Materials Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences with guidance from some Engineering (Coatings), With antibiotic resistance growing, Liz and her Faculty of Engineering team are researching alternative methods to of the brightest minds in Surface and coatings technology are central fight infections. They’re investigating the use of a to the research of Tanvir, a University of Nottingham predatory bacterium, called Bdellovibrio, which their fields. graduate. His group pioneered novel coating naturally invades and eats the dangerous bacteria. processes from nanomaterials and graphene for Liz’s hope is that this ‘bacteria-killer’ can reduce Your learning will be shaped by the the next generation of aero-engines. Collaborating our reliance on antibiotics. Liz also teaches several latest ground-breaking research, with large companies such as Rolls-Royce, his undergraduate modules and has won awards for with classes taught by subject experts. interest lies in finding new coatings to reduce her teaching and research project supervision. carbon emissions. He teaches Aerospace Materials to our undergraduate engineering students. Dr Anja Neundorf Dr Clare Burrage Associate Professor, School of Physics and Astronomy, Faculty of Social Sciences Faculty of Science Using advanced statistical methods, Dr Anja The expansion of our universe is accelerating, and Neundorf analyses how individuals form and we do not understand why. Clare’s research aims retain their political attitudes, identities and to understand whether this mysterious behaviour behaviour over time and in different political is caused by a new type of particle, or a new force systems. She is currently exploring how past in our universe, and how we could directly detect authoritarian regimes influence political this new physics. In 2015 she was awarded the attitudes today – a project which has received Maxwell Medal for this work. £200,000 of Economic and Social Research Council funding. Anja’s next project will investigate how we can best teach democracy in order to overcome these legacies. 12 13 Academic life Sharing knowledge Teaching excellence U-Now is our collection of open educational The University of Nottingham materials that have been uploaded to the web. It has has been awarded gold in the been created to enable you to browse or download Teaching Excellence Framework in material about subjects from across the University. recognition of the highest quality teaching we deliver to our students. unow.nottingham.ac.uk The gold award reflects the huge amount of work we put into ensuring that students have the best possible experience during their Achieve it Effective study time at Nottingham. This includes There are lots of resources excellent teaching and academic available to help you with the support, investment in world-class transition into higher education. facilities and access to truly global in a place of possibility Many of our degrees include opportunities. modules and other activities and opportunity where designed to help prepare you The award underlines Nottingham’s for the next few years.