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 [REF].
The School received international media attention in 2011 when an academic in the department Rod Thornton published an academic paper critical of the department and the University of Nottingham's handling of the arrest of a student called Rizwaan Sabir who was completing a PhD thesis on terrorism.