The University of Nottingham
The University of Nottingham is internationally recognised for its world-changing and award-winning research, innovative teaching and a student experience of the highest quality. Since 2003 our academics have won two Nobel Prizes, including the Nobel Prize for Medicine for the invention of Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI). Spanning all key disciplines from the arts and social sciences to medicine, engineering and science, our groundbreaking research consistently places the University among the top UK universities at the forefront of knowledge, innovation and discovery. At the end of 2006-7, the University announced a record £125 million of new research grants and contracts. The University derives about 20% of its research income from industry sponsors, reflecting its strengths in taking promising new findings from bench to business.
The University is an international institution with campuses in the United Kingdom, Malaysia (Kuala Lumpar) and China (Ningbo). In China, the University is part of a joint venture which has seen the development of a purpose-built campus on seventy acres of land in the city of Ningbo. Nottingham was the first international university to be approved by the Chinese Ministry of Education, to establish a campus in China.
The University also has many strong research partnerships with top Chinese universities and institutes. These include:
- A strategic partnership between Civil Engineering and the Chinese Academy of Surveying and Mapping on satellite navigation.
- Mechanical Engineering has a formal collaboration with the Shanghai Institute of Microsystems and Information Technology on hydrogen storage
- Plant scientists at Fudan University, Shanghai Jiaotong University and the Univesity of Nottingham have established a special plant biotechnology center - Fudan-SJTU-Nottingham Plant Biotechnology R&D Center - to facilitate closer collaboration and progress in plant biotechnology.
- The Nottingham UK-China Collaboration on Complementary and Alternative Medicine (NUCCAM) is a collaboration between Nottingham academics and The Chinese National Academy of Sciences in Beijing and at the Shanghai Centre for the Modernisation of Traditional Medicine.
- UK-China GeoNet - research network lead by Nottingham to promote international exchange of cutting-edge research in the field of geotechnical engineering funded by EPSRC, which brings together leading geotechnical groups in China and the UK.
