In a bid to get the first Riley car recreated and back on the roads of Coventry for City of Culture 2021, WMG, at the University of Warwick, are helping with sponsorship to construct a replica engine which will complete a working replica of Percy's Riley 1898 Voiturette.

The University of Warwick supported Screening Rights Film Festival is returning to the West Midlands this November (21-24th) with ground-breaking films highlighting social justice issues.

Minerva Nottingham, a new collaboration between the University of Nottingham, Nottingham Trent University (NTU) and Minerva Business Angels, part of the University of Warwick Science Park, has held its inaugural pitching event at NTU. The new group aims to raise the profile of opportunities both for growth companies and potential investors in Nottingham and the wider D2N2 LEP area.

The stories of families and individuals affected by genetically-inherited conditions are to be told in a new installation based of University of Warwick research that invites members of the public to explore their own ‘genetic baggage’.

A consortium of Midlands research-active universities, including the University of Warwick, has just been awarded research studentships worth over £20 million to build on the Midlands’ already significant bio-economy and success in life sciences and agricultural research.

Nine free workshops and events are being hosted by Warwick researchers from 2 – 9 November 2019 as part of the UK-wide ESRC Festival of Social Science. Festival-goers can find out about how our understanding of DNA might shape the future of healthcare, share a refugee’s frightening journey across the Mediterranean by sea, dig deep into archive recordings of the Coventry accent, explore the impact of landmark legal cases through art, photography and theatre, or take a guided walk on Coventry’s wild side to explore the local environment.

With City of Culture 2021 less than two years away, there are plenty of exciting new projects underway across Coventry – and you can hear about what will be offer this Saturday (5th October) at FarGo Village from 12pm-2.30pm.

A research centre that brings together leading expertise from the West Midlands to address some of the most demanding pressures on health services in the region launches today (1 October).