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‘No place for hate’: community-led research and the geographies of Nottingham citizens’ hate crime commission
No full text© 2021 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. This paper recounts the Hate Crime Commission carried out in 2014 by Nottingham Citizens, a charity and community organiser. It provides an insider account of a piece of community led and co-produced research into the experiences of and under-reporting of hate crime in the city, and the relative success of the commission in forcing policy changes and inspiring future leaders and campaigns. It details a responsive methodology that evolved over the yearlong campaign, which collated over 1000 survey responses. It explores the spaces in which mobilisation took place (religious, educational, civic) and the pressure points (private and public) that were used to create change. It concludes by weighing up the successes and critiques of the commission, especially regarding the successful campaign to have misogyny recognised as a hate crime, and relates this work to ongoing attempts to conceptualise non-radical geographies of activism and community organising
Nottingham Castle Open 2014
No full textFisher was selected by Sean Edwards (Artist), Antony Micallef (Artist) and Kirsty Ogg (Director, Bloomberg New Contemporaries) to participate in the Nottingham Castle Open exhibition (2014).
The selectors were asked to draw together a body of work that represented the wide range of creative practice taking place in the east-midlands region, from style and medium, to subject and technical ability. From the large number of applications comprising 1,251 works submitted by 447 artists, the selectors finally drew together works from 33 artists to include in this year’s Open exhibition. Fisher was selected to show iterations of his ongoing ‘Rioter’ and ‘Homemade Devices’ series.
Selected Artists include: Margie Andrew-Reichelt, Chloe Ashley, Alan Baker, Shaun Belcher, Jackie Berridge, Hasret Brown, Lotti Closs, Daniel Cowlam, Sumiko Eadon, Craig Fisher, Joanna Fursman, Adam Grüning, Jack Holden, Abi Hubbard, Melanie Jakubson, Geoff Diego Litherland, Andrew Macara, Danica Maier, Tracy-Ann Marrison, Craig David Parr, Faith Pearson, Adrian Pearsons, James Politano, Simon Raven & Jim Brouwer, Reactor, David Severn, Corinna Spencer, Sarah Terry, Oliver Tirré, Lois Wallace, Corey Whyte, Jodie Wingha
A Simulator Program for Evaluating and Improving the Nottingham Muse Architecture.
No full textThis paper describes the modelling and simulation of the Nottingham MUSE (MUltiple Stream Evaluator) machine. MUSE is a data flow machine capable of supporting structured parallel computation. The simulator described in this paper was designed to enable alterations, improvements and additions to be made to the prototype MUSE architecture.
The stages through which the model has progressed, and the implementation details of this model as a program, are discussed. The validation experiments are explained, and future plans for alterations and modifications to the basic model are suggested
Collaboration and interconnectivity: Nottinghamshire Fire and Rescue Services and higher education institutions in Nottingham
No full textThis paper will describe the developing relationship between Nottinghamshire Fire and Rescue Services and the two Higher Education Institutions in Nottingham. It will chronicle how a very traditional relationship has been transformed, initially by a simple consultancy project, into a much closer working relationship characterised by a much richer variety of collaborative projects. It demonstrates the potential mutual benefits that greater trust and reciprocity between the institutions can bring to both academia and to practice and the impact it has already had on curriculum development, teaching and learning in Nottingham
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Reducing demand, controlling supply: evaluating new street-level prostitution policy interventions and paradigms in Nottingham
No full textThis thesis describes and explains the impact of a number of policy initiatives intended to tackle the demand for, and supply of, street-level markets operating in Nottingham. The research triangulated survey data undertaken with 104 men attending a Nottingham-based ‘Kerb-Crawler Rehabilitation Programme’ (the ‘Change’ Programme) and interview data with twenty-two ‘working girls’, ten ‘punters’ and ten agency/Criminal Justice professionals. Current sociological and criminological writings on prostitution suggest that recent policy interventions are broadly representative of a ‘paradigm shift’ away from punitive-only initiatives aimed at working girls, towards the criminalisation of men that pay for (street-level) sex. Whilst these policy interventions are bedevilled by contradictions and inconsistencies, there is an inherent assumption that demand reductions can, and will, lead to a corresponding contraction in supply. In light of this, the thrust of the analysis in this thesis focused on several key questions: do policy interventions – particularly those concerned with ‘re-educating’ punters - reduce the recidivism rates amongst identified street-level punters? Do ‘new’ policy initiatives deter ‘new’ punters into Nottingham’s street-level sex markets? Do they facilitate ‘exiting’ for street-level working girls? And overarching all of this: can we rely upon simplistic economic assumptions about the relationship between supply and demand to street-level markets
King Lear to In the loop : fiction and British politics
No full textOn 11 December 2009, Nottingham University's Centre for British Politics held a conference at the British Academy that drew together politicians, writers and academics to explore the interaction of British politics and fiction.
In addition to the conference several video interviews were conducted with some of the speakers on the day.
In this interview taken at the Fiction and British Politics Conference in London, playwright James Graham (Toryboyz, Little Madam, Sons of York) talks about his approach to political fiction and what inspires him.
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James Graham, Political Playwright
James Graham writes for theatre, radio, film and television. He won the Catherine Johnson Award for the Best Play 2007 for his play Eden's Empire and was awarded the Pearson Playwriting Bursary in 2006. He is Writer in Residence at the Finborough Theatre and a member of the Royal Court/BBC 50 scheme.
James's play Tory Boyz for the National Youth Theatre caused a storm during its run at the
Soho Theatre for its portrayal of young, gay men in the modern Conservative Party and
received excellent reviews. His first film for television, Caught in a Trap, was broadcast on ITV1 on Boxing Day 2008 and was picked as one of the Broadcast Magazine Hotshots in the same year. He is under commission from a number of TV companies and his play The Whiskey Taster premieres at the Bush Theatre in early 2010.
The Centre for British Politics is based in the University's School of Politics and International Relations. www.nottingham.ac.uk/politics/cb
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The Holbrook bequest for commemorative plaques: tradition, narrative and 'local patriotism' in Victorian Nottingham
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Concurrent planning - report of a scoping exercise carried out for Faith in Families, Nottingham
No full textContext: During 2008 -2009 Faith in Families investigated the possibility of introducing a concurrent planning scheme with 6 local authorities in the East Midlands. Planning for this became quite advanced, and a member of staff was appointed by Faith in Families to carry forward the project. Nottingham Trent University was asked to evaluate the implementation, and funding was secured through a Knowledge Transfer Partnership grant. Following the demise of the Goodman project in Manchester (see below), and internal changes at Faith in Families, the implementation was put on hold and the university was asked to undertake a scoping exercise. This report relates to that exercise
Fixing the Membership of the Lords and Commons: The Case of Sir John Cam Hobhouse and the Nottingham By-Election, 1834
No full text© 2020 The Author. Parliamentary History published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd. on behalf of Parlimentary History Yearbook Trust. When Melbourne replaced Grey in 1834 he looked to recruit men with experience to join his government. He enlisted Sir John Cam Hobhouse, but Hobhouse needed a seat in the Commons. This was achieved by a writ of acceleration, whereby Viscount Duncannon, one of the sitting MPs for Nottingham, was called into the Lords in his father's lifetime to release a seat in the Commons. Writs had normally been used to strengthen the power of the government in the Lords, and the resentment in Nottingham at this political fix was expressed in a full-scale contest with accusations that the town was being turned into a government nomination borough. Hobhouse might have hoped for a free run as he had already been appointed to the cabinet. Rather, he was forced to fight for the seat, and to go through most of the activities more frequently associated with general elections
Assessing the Potential for Social Media Activity on the Business-to-Business Service Industry in the United Kingdom: A Research Project for RWB Chartered Accountants, Nottingham
No full textThis project was carried out with one main goal in mind, which was to investigate the potential of social media activity in the future on the part of RWB Chartered Accountants in Nottingham. The study aimed to understand and predict the best uses and purposes of communicating in the business-to-business service industry via social media. Vital reading was carried out providing a comprehensive review of customer satisfaction, branding, service quality, and client retention literature. This led to a number of key research questions.
The project hypothesised that social media activity on the part of RWB Chartered Accountants in Nottingham would be positive, improving service quality and increasing customer satisfaction. Through the use of an e-questionnaire posed to the clients of RWB Chartered Accountants, this project also investigated the potential of social media to assist with cross-selling, improving client retention, and communication of complaints. The research was conclusive and the results disproved the main hypothesis. Indeed the project revealed that social media would not function as a particularly appropriate business tool, nor form of communication with clients, for a company in the situation of RWB Chartered Accountants
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