Ash talks with Chris and Louis about their time as students at Nottingham and how they approached finding graduate jobs amidst the global recession when recruitment was at an all-time low. They answer your questions about how they kept themselves motivated, found graduate roles and placements, and the role networking played in finding opportunities.

Graduating in 2021: Chris & Louis (Bank strategy director & insurance loss adjuster, 2008/9 grads)

Ash speaks to Alice, a Nottingham alum and freelance journalist about her route into journalism post university and how she managed to gain experience and make career moves while many media organisations were cutting jobs due to the global recession. Listen to Alice's advise for anyone trying to find experience and job opportunities in difficult sectors.

Graduating in 2021: Alice (Freelance journalist, 2008 grad)

Episode 3: In this episode Ash talks to Jessica, a Nottingham alum who started university at 21 and now works for herself as a business coach. Jessica answers your questions and talks about her experiences with post-university careers, how she battled burnout and came to a realisation she wasn't expecting early on in her career and how this led to her working for herself to pursue a more flexible and healthy work/life balance.

Graduating in 2021: Jessica (Self-employed business coach, 2008 grad)

Professor Steven Fielding sits down with Peter Mandelson, one of the most important figures in recent political history, to discuss the creation of New Labour and securing the party’s landslide election victory in the 1997 General Election.

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New Dawn? In Conversation with Peter Mandelson

The third in the series of podcasts featuring two university Registrars talking about higher ed stuff. Dave Hall of the University of Leicester and Dr Paul Greatrix of the University of Nottingham talk through a number of items of registrarial interest including some of some of the more unusual aspects of the Registrar role, such as working with partners in challenging environments from Afghanistan to Ethiopia to Iraq and Malaysia and China. Some contrasts with Swedish HE are noted before things move on to the exceptional challenges of portraits, diversity and gas pipelines. Yes, really.

Episode 3: Diversity, gas pipelines and challenges abroad

The second in the series of podcasts featuring two university Registrars talking about higher ed stuff. Dave Hall of the University of Leicester and Dr Paul Greatrix of the University of Nottingham talk through a number of topics including job titles, from Registrar to COO to CFO and all points in between, the most enjoyable and least satisfying aspects of being a Registrar, the excitement and challenges of a good crisis and lots of stuff about meetings and minute writing. Leicester city fans will be delighted their team features here as will family and friends of Richard III. There’s also reference to robots and artificial intelligence but also a bit of a shout for the more traditional notice board.

Episode 2: Crises, job titles and artificial intelligence

The very first in a series of podcasts featuring two university Registrars talking about higher ed stuff. Dave Hall of the University of Leicester and Dr Paul Greatrix of the University of Nottingham talk through a number of topics including the role of the Registrar, some key responsibilities of the job and Dave’s career trajectory from the army and rebellion in the ranks to sabbatical officer and university administrator. The shared Warwick experience - both worked at the University for a period -  including their (very small) part in organising the visit of Bill Clinton visit to the institution and some aspects of ’the Warwick Way’ are covered. A surprising encounter with Jeremy Vine is noted along with some other additional perhaps slightly curmudgeonly observations about university life today.

Episode 1: Bill Clinton, Jeremy Vine and The Warwick Way

Michael Cole discusses his recent publication about the China-Taiwan relationship and beyond.

Cross-Strait Relations Since 2016

Dr. Andreas Fulda discusses the sharp power of China's impact in the region.

The Struggle for Democracy in Mainland China, Taiwan and Hong Kong

Professor Erik Baak analyses the innovation policies being implemented in mainland China and Taiwan, and discusses the potential challenges which will emerge in their digital economies.

Innovation Policies In Mainland China And Taiwan

Dr. Tim Summers provides his perspective from Hong Kong about the impact the Hong Kong protests will have on Taiwan's upcoming presidential election.

Hong Kong protests and their impact on Taiwan

Professor Joseph Fewsmith explains the China-Taiwan tension in the Asian context.

The Domestic Roots of Cross-Strait Relations

Taiwan's former ambassador to the Holy See, Dr. Chou-Tseng Tou, discusses the relationship between Taiwan and the Vatican with Dr. Tsung-ming Chen.

Taiwan And Vatican Relations In Perspective

A roundtable discussion about China's Belt and Road Initiative and Taiwan's New Southbound Policy, and the impact these infrastructure projects have on these two geo-economic diplomacies.

Roundtable on China's BRI and Taiwan's New Southbound Policy

Our amazing alumna Emma Cole talks about how she took on a huge physical challenge during lockdown despite suffering from health problems early last year.

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Episode 4 – How I challenged myself to take part in a huge physical challenge after a health scare

The University of Nottingham has 42,000 students at award-winning campuses in the United Kingdom, China and Malaysia. It was ‘one of the first to embrace a truly international approach to higher education’, according to the Sunday Times University Guide 2013. It is also one of the most popular universities among graduate employers, one of the world’s greenest universities, and winner of the Times Higher Education Award for ‘Outstanding Contribution to Sustainable Development’. It is ranked in the UK's Top 10 and the World's Top 75 universities by the Shanghai Jiao Tong and the QS World Rankings.

More than 90 per cent of research at The University of Nottingham is of international quality, according to the most recent Research Assessment Exercise. The University aims to be recognised around the world for its signature contributions, especially in global food security, energy & sustainability, and health. The University won a Queen’s Anniversary Prize for Higher and Further Education for its research into global food security. 

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