Tuesday 9 August 2022 Rebekah Smith-McGloin, Director of NTU’s Doctoral School and Research Operations and Lead Officer on the Co(l)laboratory Project, summarises why this project is so ground-breaking. Research is what moves humanity forward. We are curious, we ask questions, and we… Read More »Co(l)laboratory: Linking Research to Our Place
Child Friendly Nottingham is the city’s ongoing project under UNICEF’s Child Friendly Cities Initiative. Underpinned by the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, Child Friendly Cities seek local implementations of promoting children’s rights and participation for sustainable development… Read More »Diversifying Child Friendly Nottingham: Perspectives from Primary School-Aged Children
About The Project This project is based on the ongoing work of the Mansfield and Ashfield Education and Skills Group. The group, which comprises influential policymakers which includes two local MPs, district and county councillors, employers and school leaders, has… Read More »What does it mean to be “work-ready”?: Investigating the education-employment transition for young people in former coalfields areas.
This project centres on advancing community-led knowledge on the lived experience of labour market coercion, exploitation, and the potential for modern slavery, with an explicit emphasis on locally sourced and locally relevant research where the findings will demonstrate how community… Read More »Understanding the lived experience of workplace coercion, exploitation and modern slavery in the community across Nottingham
The link between martial arts and violence reduction has long been assumed and anecdotally measured. Some recent research by Matthews and colleagues calls these links into question (Channon and Matthews, 2018; Matthews et al 2022). The evaluation and monitoring of… Read More »Boxing in the Community: Moving Beyond the Myths of Sports’ Positive Potentials to Reduce Violence
It is acknowledged in the literature (Heath 2018) that the NHS could be more democratic and accountable to the citizens it serves. Citizen juries are one method of making public organisations more democratic and accountable. A citizen jury is a… Read More »Promoting direct democracy in the NHS in Nottingham and Nottinghamshire
Research shows that there is a correlation between trust and health outcomes (Birkhauer, et al. 2017), that (in the US) there is a correlation between low income and low trust in physicians (Blendon et al, 2014) and that low levels… Read More »How does trust impact participation in health promoting activities and how has this changed as a result of the pandemic?
In Nottingham, the mortality rates for infants aged 0-4 is 9.73 times greater in Black and Asian compared to White population in Nottingham and Nottinghamshire (Midlands Scoreboard, ICS 2022). Furthermore, Black and brown skin community are disproportionately represented in maternity… Read More »Identifying and Overcoming Racial Barriers to Effective Maternity Care: Capturing the Experiences of Black and brown skin maternity service users
A new ‘skateboard friendly’ space situated underneath the Nottingham train station tram bridge will open in December 2022, providing a unique opportunity for place-based research. The mixed-use space has been developed as part of a wider £20 million ‘Sussex Street’… Read More »Skateboarding in shared public space: power, gender, age and inclusivity
The Nottingham/Nottinghamshire Violence Reduction Unit (NNVRU) brings together civic partners from Local Government, Health, Education, Policing, and Criminal Justice to work with communities and the charity sector to reduce serious violence (SV). This seeks to build community resilience, change social… Read More »Understanding And Responding To Youth Violence: Blending data science with lived experience
