Distinguished guests

The University was awarded a Queen's Anniversary Prize for Higher and Further Education, for its research on Global Food Security — which includes everything from growing more crops with less fertiliser, to improving the nutrition, safety and taste of food on the plate. This video shows the formal presentation which took place at Buckingham Palace in February 2012, when Her Majesty The Queen presented the award to Professor David Greenaway, Vice-Chancellor of The University of Nottingham, and P

On 7th November 2008, Professor Roy Pea, Professor of Education and Learning Sciences at Stanford University gave a talk entitled "Learning in a Networked World" at the opening of the Learning Sciences Research Institute at the university of Nottingham. http://www.lsri.nottingham.ac.uk/ "The combination of "always on" mobile computing, location-aware services, open platform technologies, participatory media culture, immersive worlds and games, and increasingly open educational resources provid

This film, by Rob Glass, captures the highlights from the Council and Benefactors Dinner at Jubilee Campus on Monday 14 July 2008, celebrating 60 years of the University's Royal Charter. It includes speeches from Chancellor Yang Fujia, Vice-Chancellor Professor Sir Colin Campbell and the President of the Council Keith Hamill. It also features the lighting of Aspire, the UK's tallest free-standing work of art, in place at Jubilee campus, as well as a fireworks finale.

The UK's tallest free standing work of art - Aspire - has been officially unveiled at a civic ceremony at The University of Nottingham. The 60 metre tall sculpture was commissioned as part of the 60th anniversary celebrations of the University being awarded the Royal Charter. This specially commissioned film traces historic milestones from the past sixty years at the University, and charts its continued growth as a truly global institution.

In this lecture Douglas Alexander delivers the annual Hugh Gaitskell lecture at the School of Education.

Alistair Darling takes a tour of the University's