d) Centre for Innovation Script- INT Version
VO- The University of Nottingham is a globally renowned research centre of international
importance.
“The fact that I’ve got to learn my course from some of the top experts in the field has been
very resourceful to me not only to be able to relate to the best but also to learn from them how
to get to the top”
Interview: Calvin Mogute (Kenya, Environmental Law)
VO- Some go on to secure the very highest level of achievement. Clive Granger was awarded
the Nobel Prize for Economic Science in 2003.
“Professor Granger’s work is primarily in the area of forecasting economic time series.
Essentially, anybody who’s doing work in time series econometrics will have to have used
some of the methods Clive Granger employed”
Interview: Professor Alan Duncan (Head of School of Economics)
VO- And also in 2003, Peter Mansfield won a Noble Prize for his pioneering MRI research.
“The impact of MRI has really been tremendous. It’s arguably the most important
development in medical diagnosis in the last century”
Interview: Professor Peter Morris (Professor of Physics)
VO- Success like this has led to a major investment in research into the University. Today all
faculties are involved in a variety of research projects
“The stem cell culture facilities that we’re sitting in now are probably one of the best facilities
in the United Kingdom for this kind of research. We’re trying to use these heart cells to make
better drug screening programmes for the pharmaceutical industry, reduce overall animal
testing and improve the safety of the drugs”
Interview: Dr Chris Denning (Associate Professor Stem Cell Biology)
VO- But how does all this improve your experience here?
“The staffs are all very professional and they’re all generally at the top of their field, so
working with them is inspiring because you know that they’re bringing the latest research to
you and incorporating it into your learning and offering you the best there is”
Interview: Eric Berhoud (UK, Management with Chinese Studies)
“The work that we do here impacts very positively on the students. It means that they’re
always getting access to the most up-to-date information, very cutting-edge technology and
so it really does stand them in very good stead for getting a career within this field and that’s
ultimately what we’re trying to do”
Interview: Dr Chris Denning (Associate Professor Stem Cell Biology)
“The School of the Built Environment here at the University of Nottingham is one of the
leading research institutes looking at energy use in the built environment. And in the backdrop here you can actually see a very large project. It’s unique. There’s no other university in
the world that has this facility. We have six houses part under construction and two of them
completed with people living in them. And these are test beds to test different technologies
developed here in the university and see how they perform in practice”
Interview: Dr Mark Gillott (Associate Professor and Co-director, Institute of Sustainable
Energy Technology Research)
“We can really get practically involved because there’s building going on around us”
Interview: Katharine Mack (UK, Architectural Environmental Engineering)
“The final house that we’re going to have for this project is actually being designed by the
students and our research understanding is feeding into that design work”
Interview: Dr Mark Gillott (Associate Professor and Co-director, Institute of Sustainable
Energy Technology Research)
“By studying this course the industry that I can go into I can make a real difference by helping
to reduce energy consumption”
Interview: Katharine Mack (UK, Architectural Environmental Engineering)
VO- The pioneering research also creates links with industry”
“Our students are actually exposed to technologies that are under development at the
moment that actually may be commonplace in 5-10 years time so it gives our students an
advantage”
Interview: Dr Mark Gillott (Associate Professor and Co-director, Institute of Sustainable
Energy Technology Research)