Soon after the last Dubai International Film Festival, Sheila who was 77, was diagnosed as having the first indications of motor neuron disease. She died peacefully at home in London on 29 July 2013.

Warwickshire Open Studios, the county’s largest free visual arts event is now taking place annually and University employee Amanda Glanville, a glass bead maker (Arts Centre Box Office) will be joining artists in 15 other Coventry venues as part of the new Coventry Art Trail.

Professor Bob Jackson, Warwick Religions and Education Research Unit (WRERU), has been awarded the prestigious William Rainey Harper Award from the Religious Education Association.

Michael Edwards, a former member of staff at Warwick, has become the first British-born writer to be elected to the prestigious Académie française, France's highest learned body charged with defending the purity of the French language.

The University is saddened to hear of the death of former member of staff Bill Hammond. Bill was chairman of Creative Arts at Warwick from 1978 and chaired the Arts Education Department in the 1980s. Bill retired from Warwick in 1990.