Nottingham Trent University

Overview

Nottingham Trent University

Nottingham Trent University (NTU) is a public research university located in Nottingham, England, United Kingdom. It was founded in 1843 as the Nottingham Government School of Design and is recognized as the 9th largest university in the country. Its known course offerings include business, psychology, and forensic science.

Nottingham Trent University Key Statistics

The university comprises eight academic schools, including the School of Architecture, Design and the Built Environment, the School of Animal, Rural and Environmental Sciences, and the School of Science and Technology. It offers 234 undergraduate and 261 postgraduate programs. Some of its most in-demand graduate programs are Master of Science in Advertising and Marketing Communications and Master of Science in Biomedical Science by Flexible Learning.

Nottingham Trent University's student population is approximately 36,000, around 81% of whom are undergraduates while the remaining 19% are postgraduate students. It has 9,340 employees consisting of faculty members and administrative staff on its five campuses. Its other campuses are the Mansfield and Ashfield - Vision University Campus, the Clifton Campus, the Brackenhurst Campus, and the Confetti Campus.

Other Nottingham Trent University key statistics include its libraries, such as the Boots Library, which is the university’s main library and the branch libraries, including the ones located in the Brackenhurst and Clifton campuses. Among the university’s special collections are the Labouring Class Poetry Collection, the Colleen J McElroy Archive, and the Raymond Williams Collection. The university is also an affiliate of numerous national and international organizations. These include the University Alliance, the Association of Commonwealth Universities, and the European University Association.

Nottingham Trent University Research

Its top fields of research are psychology, medicine, and computer science. Nottingham Trent University research outputs have been published in prestigious journals like the International Journal of Mental Health and Addiction, Journal of Behavioral Addictions, and Cyberpsychology, Behavior, and Social Networking.

NTU’s researchers have attended major scholarly conferences, such as SOCO: Soft Computing, ESWC: European Semantic Web Conference, and ITSC: International Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems.

The most cited Nottingham Trent University research publication is Featherstone's book Consumer Culture and Postmodernism. This was published in 1991 and has so far been cited 9,775 times.

The university’s second most cited publication is Smith et al.'s (2014) "Deep Eutectic Solvents (DESs) and their applications," which was featured in Chemical Reviews and has received 2,701 citations.

Moreover, the university’s third most cited publication is Larkin et al.'s (2006) "Giving voice and making sense in interpretative phenomenological analysis,” which was published in Qualitative Research in Psychology, with 2,581 citations to date.

The university has several research centers and institutes. These include the Centre for Animal, Rural and Environmental Sciences Research, the Centre for Crime, Offending, Prevention, and Engagement, and the Centre for the Study of Inequality, Culture and Difference.

Other university research statistics include several awards received, such as the prestigious 2015 Queen's Anniversary Prize for Higher and Further Education. It has also produced notable alumni like Simon Starling, a Turner Prize Winner in 2005. The university also has a number of partnerships that provide grants and funding to its research. These organizations include the Innovate U.K., U.K. Research Councils, and the European Union.