Broadcasting Research News

Research-TV is an innovative and unique broadcasting service promoting UK university research excellence internationally. Research-TV distributes high quality video news releases to around 2,000 news organisations worldwide, bringing our research to a global TV audience. Nottingham’s stories cover a range of innovative research projects across disciplines. Visitors to our site can watch Nottingham films by clicking on the images below.

Broadcasts

Last Research-TV film...

The Frozen Ark
(see below)

Our Research-TV broadcasts have now come to an end. We hope you enjoyed the films portraying Nottingham's research and can view them all in this area of the site.

The Frozen Ark

Institute of Genetics

November 2006

The world’s animal population is dying out at an unsurpassed rate with many species on the brink of extinction. The Frozen Ark is a unique conservation project that aims to save the DNA of endangered species so that generations to come will have a genetic blueprint of some of the most rare and beautiful creatures to have inhabited this earth.

Going nuts in Africa

School of Biosciences

July 2005

Experts at Nottingham's Tropical Crops Research Unit explain how a drought-resistant crop - the Bambara Groundnut - could be the key to an agricultural revolution for Africa.

Healing power of maggots

School of Pharmacy

July 2006

Maggots have been used to treat wounds since the Napoleonic wars. Here, Nottingham scientists are re-introducing their use by harnessing their natural power of healing.

Modelling Turbulence

School of Civil Engineering

June 2005

Nottingham’s state-of the-art high performance computing system is enabling engineers to model the effects of turbulence on suspension bridges and other giant structures when rocked by the forces of nature. These simulations are the most detailed to have ever taken place.

Sat-Nav: Driving aid or driving distraction?

School of Computer Science & IT

June 2006

Are in-car satellite navigation systems a hazard for the average driver? A Nottingham research team investigates using a state-of-the-art computer driving simulator.

Shakespeare's Lost Play

School of English Studies

April 2005

Nottingham's literary detective Professor Brean Hammond investigates new evidence linking an 18th Century play, “Double Falsehood”, to a lost work by the famous bard William Shakespeare.