Departmental news

Congratulations to Mantas Drelingas for winning a prestigious Salters' Graduate Award in recognition for his academic brilliance, excellence in the lab and a highly successful industrial placement.

Metal-oxo clusters are well defined molecular analogues of semiconducting metal oxide materials.. Two articles investigating their structure and photochemistry have been recently published by the Pike group. Read more.

Two WMG apprentices at the University of Warwick have been recognised at the Multicultural Apprenticeship Awards. Parris Small was crowned overall Apprentice of the Year 2022, while Beverley Ngo was highly commended in the Engineering and Manufacturing Category.

Parris Small and Beverley Ngo are both in the fourth year of their BSc Digital and Technology Solutions Degree Apprenticeship, employed by Jaguar Land Rover.

The Multicultural Apprenticeship Awards, in partnership with Pearson, aim to showcase talent and diversity within multicultural communities through the celebration of those working hard to overcome adversity to achieve their goals through apprenticeships. These awards celebrate the achievements of apprentices, and the contribution of employers and learning providers who have assisted them along their journey.

The awards evening was hosted in Birmingham on Friday (4 November 2022), with 650 attendees celebrating the success of over 150 finalist apprentices, employers, and learning providers. The event culminated in a standing ovation for Apprentice of the Year 2022, Parris Small.

Parris says: “Winning this award was surreal, I wasn’t expecting it! As a strong advocate for diversity and inclusion, I am very grateful for awards like these, it was so nice to be in a room full of people that you can relate to and can understand you as a person. I am very proud of this achievement and it has put me in a position to be able to make a difference; I want to be an ambassador for STEM, technology and apprenticeships. I can now say that doing an apprenticeship is an opportunity to succeed, to win awards, and to go to new places. I can’t thank the awards team and judges enough for this recognition that I will appreciate forever.”

Parris’ passion for diversity and inclusion extends to her involvement in the REACH (Race, Ethnicity and Cultural Heritage) Network at Jaguar Land Rover, where she is one of the Events Leads with Beverley Ngo, helping to ensure everyone within the company is recognised, represented, and celebrated.

This year has been full of success for Parris and Beverley, as they were also recognised in the Autocar Great Women 2022 Awards in the Apprentice Category, Parris received Highly Commended Regional Winner of the National Apprenticeships Awards 2022, and also won the Apprentice Category of the Midlands Women In Tech Awards 2022.

WMG Associate Professor and Course Lead for the BSc Digital and Technology Solutions Degree Apprenticeship programme, Dr Alaa Al Sebae adds: “We are delighted that two of our apprentices have been recognised at the Multicultural Apprenticeship Awards. They are great role models for others, highlighting the talent and diversity in apprenticeships. We are looking forward to hearing more about their achievements as they look towards the end of their Degree Apprenticeships and the rest of their careers in STEM.”

Find out more about WMG’s Degree Apprenticeships here: Degree Apprenticeships : WMG, University of Warwick

Prof Dave Haddleton's group collaborated with scientists at Unilever to develop SweatSense - a new technology to test deodorant performance through sweat mapping. Read moreLink opens in a new window.

Huge congratulations to Robb Johnston, Technical Services Manager who has been awarded a British Empire Medal (BEM) in the 2023 New Year Honours List. The British Empire Medal is awarded for meritorious and 'hands-on' service to the local community. Robb has been awarded a BEM for his contribution to Physics. Robb commented on the news of his award "I was very surprised and honoured to receive it."

Robb has worked in the department for 39 years in February and oversees the management of technical support staff and the building's critical services, infrastructure, and maintenance.

We are happy to announce that Dr Shan Raza has been promoted to Associate Professor from 1 January 2023. Since joining Warwick in 2019, he has made a significant contribution to the activities of the Tissue Image Analytics (TIA) Centre and the PathLAKE initiative. Many congratulations to Shan for his achievements!

Dr Jane Bryan has won two National Mediation Awards. She was nominated for The Newcomer of the Year Award and the Innovation Award due to her work founding and leading Warwick Mediation, a peer mediation service for staff and students at Warwick.

The tenth edition of the Warwick Economics PhD Conference was held on 8th-9th June 2022 at the Department of Economics. The event was organised by PhD students with the help of the faculty and administrative team.

This year, the Warwick Economics PhD conference received over 250 applications from graduate students of leading research institutions from across the world. A scientific review committee consisting of Warwick PhD students and faculty members helped in the process of selecting 25 papers among this pool of high-quality applications. Of the selected 25 papers, 17 were presented in seminar presentations, and 8 in flash presentations akin to traditional conference poster sessions.

Thanks to the easing of pandemic restrictions, we were able to host the conference entirely in person. The first day kicked off with Professor Herakles Polemarchakis’ opening lecture, which was named after Professor Avinash K. Dixit to honour his research contribution and his influence on the Department of Economics at Warwick. The conference was concluded with a keynote speech by Professor Andrew Oswald on the future of economics and academic careers.

Over the two days, conference delegates and speakers engaged in intellectually stimulating presentations delivered by students from Toulouse, Oxford, Princeton, Columbia, UCL, Warwick, UC Louvain, Essex, UC Berkeley, Ecole Polytechnique, Cambridge, Amsterdam, LSE, Imperial College, Queen Marry, Nottingham, Erasmus University Rotterdam, Bristol and Universitat Pompeu Fabra.

The papers presented covered a broad range of topics and fields, grouped into Behavioural Theory, Applied Economics and Labour Economics on the first day; Macroeconomics, Econometrics, and Networks & Platforms on the second day of the conference. Each 20-minutes seminar presentation was followed by a discussion and feedback from the students and faculty members in the audience. In addition to the plenary presentations, there were two five-minute flash presentations sessions where researchers delivered the key message of their paper in a concise and engaging manner.

Overall, the event was a remarkable success. It provided a platform to graduate students from different institutions to showcase their work, while serving as a terrific opportunity for Warwick students to engage in world-leading research. The participants received valuable feedback on their projects, formed professional networks and, most importantly, enjoyed their time at our campus with fellow PhD students. The organising team looks forward to the conference in 2023.

Learn more about the participants and their projects.

The ninth edition of the Warwick Economics PhD Conference was held virtually on 24-26 June 2021. The event was organised by PhD students with the help of the Marketing & Communications Team.

This year, the Warwick Economics PhD conference received over 180 applications from graduate students of leading research institutions from across the world. A scientific review committee consisting of Warwick faculty members and PhD students helped in the process of whittling down these high-quality applications to thirty-three – 25 seminar presentations and 8 flash presentations.

Thanks to the possibility of connecting digitally, this year the Conference was held over three days (instead of the usual two), and including participants from all over the world. The first day kicked off with the keynote speech by Professor Sascha Becker, while the second day closed with the keynote speech by Professor Roger Farmer.

Over three days, conference delegates and speakers engaged in intellectually stimulating presentations delivered by students from Bocconi University, University College Dublin, KU Leuven, Bonn, Oxford, Bologna, Boston College, CEMFI, University of Pennsylvania, Nottingham, Universidad Autonoma de Barcelona, Amsterdam, Erasmus University, Lausanne, Durham, Maryland, Princeton, UCLA, Bristol, PSE, Mannheim, Edinburgh, Hebrew University and Stanford.

The papers presented covered a broad range of topics and fields, grouped into Applied Economics on the first day, Macroeconomics on the second day, and Economic Theory and Behavioural Economics on the third day. Each 20-minutes presentation was followed by a discussion and constructive feedback from students and faculty members in the audience. Five-minute flash presentations, which replaced the in-person poster presentations, allowed speakers to deliver the key message of their paper in a concise and engaging manner.

Overall, the event was a great success. It provided a platform to graduate students from different institutions to showcase their work, while serving as a great opportunity for Warwick students to discuss their research and promote the Department to their peers across the globe. The organising team looks forward to delivering the next edition of the Conference in 2022, which will be the tenth anniversary of the event.

Two teams from Warwick Economics have been Highly Commended in the recent university-wide Excellence in Gender Equality AwardsLink opens in a new window.  

The Awards Link opens in a new windowwere created by the Athena Swan Self-Assessment Team and the Gender Taskforce to acknowledge commitment to equality, diversity, inclusion and sharing best practice. This year entries were judged by University Provost Professor Chris Ennew, the Chairs of Faculty, and Kulbir Shergill, Director of Social Inclusion.

The two Economics teams recognised for excellence in working towards gender equality were Dr Stefania Paredes Fuentes and the ‘Women in Economics: A Student Workshop’ Team; and the ‘Warwick Women in Economics International Women's Day Conference’ Team.  

The Women in Economics Student WorkshopLink opens in a new window was co-ordinated by Dr Stefania Paredes-Fuentes and a group of undergraduate students with the goal of hearing the student perspective on the debate on female under-representation in the discipline. During the two day event, students from 12 universities gathered in Warwick to present their ideas and to discuss the issues around the lack of diversity in the discipline. Outcomes from the workshop have included the ‘Economics for All’ guide with 7 Action Points to promote diversity in Economics, and the foundation of the Warwick Women in EconomicsLink opens in a new window (WWiE) society.  

The judges said that the Workshop “was a great initiative and event, which definitely demonstrated sharing good practice and meeting of the criteria for commitment to gender equality (and wider inclusivity) and delivering on a specific project.” 

The second Highly Commended Economics team was the 15-strong student team behind the 2022 WWiE International Women's Day conferenceLink opens in a new window. The IWD event was the society’s first in-person conference and attracted more than 80 attendees and 100 online participants. The aim of the day was to raise awareness of the different career paths available for female economics graduates.  

Milena Ermolenko, the society’s Vice-President, said “It was a huge achievement for the team to organise our society’s first large-scale in-person event and the high attendance confirms its success. The conference offered economics students a platform to raise their voice, ask questions about their degree, and become more curious about their future career prospects.  

“We are delighted that WWiE has been recognised for our contribution to equality, diversity and inclusion, and our commitment to building more inclusive environments and experiences through everyday behaviours at the University of Warwick.  

“The judges described our International Women’s Day Conference 2022 as ‘a successful and well-attended event.’ We intend to make it bigger and better in spring 2023.”