Departmental news

Dr Kathryn McMahon comments on UK retailers' class action against Amazon for allegedly using their marketplace data to boost its product sales, at the expense of retailers, in a WIRED.com interview.

Dr Harjinder Lallie, Associate Professor (Cyber Security) at WMG at the University of Warwick explain: “The London cyber attack demonstrates the importance of cyber defences and proper back up plans, especially in organisations where it really can be a matter of life or death, like the NHS. With hospitals now having to resort to paper records in the wake of the attack, we must seriously weigh up the costs of defending ourselves versus the cost of doing nothing and accepting these attacks from hostile actors.

“With these attacks often able to manipulate our data as well as hold it to ransom, our most private data – such as our health records – must be protected more closely. To leave the medical information of patients out there without proper cyber security defence is the equivalent of leaving the files on a park bench or on a train. We must invest more in our own defences if we don’t want to see these types of attacks repeated time and again.”

Justin Yu, a final year Law undergraduate student shares his experience of presenting his dissertation research at various prestigious conferences around the world including the British Conference of Undergraduate Research (BCUR).

Professors Reinhard Maurer, Scott Habershon, Tim Bugg, and Sébastien Perrier, have been recognised for their contributions to Chemistry.

The RSC Biotechnology Group Committee has named Dr Matt Jenner as winner of the 2024 RSC Felix Franks Biotechnology MedalLink opens in a new window

BBC news uses expert comment from the former Head of Department (1992-1995) and Emeritus Professor Bernard Capp in their article "How do we feel when leaders cry". Professor Capp comments on attitudes towards crying in public changing several times throughout history.

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The Department of History seeks to appoint a Teaching Fellow in Modern History on a full-time basis for a fixed-term period of 12 months from 1 September 2024.

This is an exciting opportunity to be part of one of the largest History departments in the UK with a thriving community of teachers and researchers covering a range of disciplines and geographical areas.

The full advert and job description can be found on the University of Warwick website. For informal enquiries, please contact Professor Tim Lockley (Head of Department) at t.j.lockley@warwick.ac.uk.

The closing date for applications is Sunday 23 June 2024 at 11:45pm.

An international conference was held on 6-7 June 2024 to honour the contribution to Islamic Law scholarship by Professor Shaheen Sardar Ali.

The work of Professor Graham Cormode has been recognized with a “test of time” award. The ACM SIGMOD conference presents an award each year for the paper from SIGMOD 10-12 years previously that has had the biggest impact, and passed the “test-of-time”. The 2014 paper “PrivBayes: private data release via bayesian networks” (Jun Zhang, Graham Cormode, Cecilia M. Procopiuc, Divesh Srivastava, Xiaokui Xiao) was selected for this honour. The award will be presented at the 2024 ACM SIGMOD Conference in Santiago.

Congratulations to Dr Angela McShane, Department of History Honorary Reader, and Professor Christopher Marsh, Queens University Belfast, who were named winners at the REMA Awards ceremony. Every two years REMA puts under the spotlight the projects that reflect the vision and versatility of today's Early Music sector.

Dr McShane and Prof Marsh's '100 Ballads' project, which identified 100 of the biggest musical hits from 17th-century England, was named Interdisciplinary Project of the Year.