pandemic.
As of 4 February, the university administration initiated a safety net policy, for a variety of assignment types, in partial compliance with student demands. However demands for a wider university policy to support students with welfare support have yet to be made, with further complaints arising due to minimal financial support being provided to home students and additional issues arising for international students - resulting in a number of go-fund me pages being created to help international students pay their tuition.
Student campaigners are yet to comment on the development of this situation.
=== Attitudes towards Catholicism ===
At the start of the 2021–22 academic year, Patrick McKinney, Bishop of Nottingham, appointed Fr David Palmer to position of Catholic Chaplain to the university. The university actively blocked his appointment on the basis of his views on abortion and euthanasia. This triggered mass international criticism, including from Ann Furedi, a former chief executive of the British Pregnancy Advisory Service with strongly pro-choice views, who described the decision as "stupid" and stated "I disagree with his views on abortion but as a Catholic priest he's expressing a mainstream Catholic view. Universities can't tell chaplains what religious beliefs to express".
Fr Palmer's criticism of abortion and euthanasia were entirely in line with the Catholic Church's teaching.
The university are yet to comment on the development of this situation or the media coverage which it has generated.
== Notable people ==
The university has been associated with a range of notable alumni and staff in a number of disciplines: Nobel Prize or Fields Medal winners include Sir Clive Granger – 2003 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences, Sir Peter Mansfield – 2003 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for contributions to Magnetic Resonance Imaging, Andre Geim – Nobel Prize–winning physicist, and Caucher Birkar – Fields Medal–winning mathematician.
Frederick Kipping, professor of chemistry (1897–1936), …
