In 1971 the Sir Francis Hill chair was established following an endowment from the Municipal Mutual Insurance Company and Frank Stacey, an expert in local government was appointed.

[9] In 1999 moved to the Law and Social Sciences Building (LASS) and changed its name to the ‘School of Politics and International Relations' in 2005.

[10] The current research centres are: The school appoints a number of Honorary Professors who share their real world expertise with students.

As of 2015[update] they were: In 1994 the then head of the department David Regan killed himself in a protest against decisions made by management at the University of Nottingham which he disagreed with.

Mr Sabir downloaded a copy of an Al-Qaeda training manual from a US government website and was wrongly arrested on terrorism charges.

In 2015 Times Higher Education reported that the Home Office had refused a visa for the academic Miwa Hirono, an expert on Chinese foreign policy, on the basis she had spent around 200 days in the past five years resident in China researching China's foreign peacekeeping and humanitarian operations.