Our Research Celebration event this week showcased Warwick’s pioneering research and recognised brilliant achievements from individuals and teams – catch up on the event and find out who was presented with an award.

These national awards are an exciting opportunity to showcase the University’s excellence. Marketing Communications and Insight are coordinating this year’s submissions. Thinking of applying? Find out what you need to know and how to get involved.

A study led by Dr Chiara De Gregorio (Psychology) found that young lemurs tend to sing out of tune before improving as adults, in a similar way to how humans also learn to control their singing voice.

“When I first spotted this system with a very high total mass on our galactic doorstep, I was immediately excited,” said James Munday (Physics).

Wednesday 30 April
Member of the Warwick research community? You’re invited to the second Learning Circle event, which provides support for developing interdisciplinary research projects on sustainability.

Our alliance with Monash University (Australia) provides researchers with the chance to develop joint projects that can lead to impactful, long-term partnerships – find out about some of the exciting work taking place, including research into inclusivity within multicultural cricket teams.

This groundbreaking research collaboration is using theatre and heritage research to shed light on the new Chinese ‘Silk Road’ - which is influencing culture, politics and economics across the globe and has been a key part of Warwick’s Marco Polo International Programme.

We’re inviting representatives from our research community, across all roles, to join our Research Culture Strategy Group, explore an ‘ideal future’ and help us decide how to achieve it by 2030.

Or does a brief midday snooze help to keep us alert? In this piece for The Conversation, sleep researcher Dr Talar Moukhtarian (WMS), explains all.