Departmental news

We are delighted to share that Dr Laura Lammasniemi has been selected as a George Flannery Visiting Fellow at the University of Sydney Law School. These highly competitive fellowships are awarded each year to international researchers who will contribute to the School’s research environment.

Gems and the New Science: Matter and Value in the Scientific Revolution is the forthcoming book release from Dr Michael Bycroft, Associate Professor in the History of Science and Technology, due for release March 2026.

This first book-length history of gems in early modern science offers a thought-provoking new take on the Scientific Revolution, and has been featured in the New York Review of Books.

For more information and to order the book visit the University of Chicago Press website.

WPC- Warwick Postdoctoral Community  

Launching the Warwick Postdoctoral Community (WPC) Teams group, open to staff members with a doctorate that consider themselves to be “Early Career”. It is a Teams group for postdocs run by postdocs, to help postdocs find each other, organise social events and share information.

You can join the Teams group using this link: General | WPC (Warwick Postdoctoral Community) | Microsoft TeamsLink opens in a new window.

It is often harder for postdocs to meet others at similar career stages to them as postdocs are more dispersed than PhD students, may start at any time in the academic year, and have shorter contracts. The main aims of this group are to enable postdocs to organise regular social events, provide a noticeboard for information, and a provide a forum for discussion and feedback on the postdoc experience at Warwick.

Omoyemi Akerele (LLM in International Economic Law, 2001-2002) was awarded the £1 million Earthshot Prize in 2025 for her pioneering work with Lagos Fashion Week.

Two departments at the University of Warwick, Warwick Manufacturing Group (WMG) and the Department of Physics, are collaborating on a new project to develop advanced shielding materials and technologies for power generation using nuclear fusion.

By combining cutting-edge physics research with WMG’s expertise in innovative materials and manufacturing, academics from both departments aim to bring sustainable fusion energy a step closer to reality.

Defining the critical VT substrate has been a major focus of R&D teams globally. The importance of functional substrate identification has been reported by several world-renowned groups. However, as we move towards implementation, standardisation of functional extra-stimulus mapping is required. Our work just published in JACC Journals attempts to address this.

What are the important electrogram features that provide the greatest accuracy in defining the VT isthmus?

This international, multicentre study provides insights important to consider as we work towards automation of the approach.

Read the paper here.Link opens in a new window

Warwick Law School alumna Dr Daanika Kamal (IDLHR, 2014-2015) will be joining us to discuss her book Domestic Violence in Pakistan: The Legal Construction of ‘Bad’ and ‘Mad’ Women.

The Solihull & Coventry Automated Links Evolution (SCALE) project, a pioneering partnership led by Solihull Council and supported by Warwick Manufacturing Group (WMG), University of Warwick, is pleased to announce that the latest phase is now live.

Marking a major milestone, a fleet of autonomous shuttles have begun operating for the first time along the full 7km route between Resorts World, the NEC (including access to Birmingham International Train Station), and Birmingham Business Park (BBP).