Scott Martin from Warwick's Finance Office, will be trading accounting for acoustics on Saturday 22 September when his band, The Broken Rebels, support Ian McCulloch of Echo and the Bunnymen at Coventry's The Kasbah.

Mairi Macintyre, Principal Teaching Fellow in WMG, has reached the end of a seven day journey lending her pedal power to help Lady Godiva reach London, to celebrate the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games.

Dahlia Janan, a PhD student from Warwick Institute of Education, has been awarded a prize for the best thesis on literacy by the UK Literary Association.

David Morley, Professor or English and Comparative Literary Studies, is to join the judging panel, chaired by Poet Laureate, Carol Ann Duffy, for the 2012 T S Eliot Prize for Poetry.

Two University employees will exhibit their work alongside 300 other artists at 150 venues across Warwickshire in this year's Warwickshire Open Studios.