Press Releases
Poetry in the City event to bring together Coventry creatives for City of Culture
The power of the written word is set to be the focus of a UK City of Culture event celebrating Coventry’s creative potential. The Words and Voices Roadshow: Poetry in the City event will welcome newcomers and the most experienced wordsmiths to a day of engaging workshops and performances at the Assembly Festival Gardens on Sunday, September 5.
New research centre to focus on quantitative and analytical political economy
A new research centre, headed by Professor Francesco Squintani and based within the Department of Economics at Warwick University, aims to become a centre of excellence for collaborative research in quantitative and analytical political economy. The Quantitative and Analytical Political Economy Research Centre (QAPEC) will consolidate and advance the research work of quantitative and analytical political economists at Warwick.
UK-based consortium established to develop prototype solid-state batteries
A consortium of seven UK-based organisations including WMG, University of Warwick has signed a memorandum of understanding to combine ambitions to develop world-leading prototype solid-state battery technology, targeting automotive applications.
Fast changes between the solar seasons resolved by new sun clock
In a new study led by the University of Warwick and published in The Astrophysical Journal, scientists found that the change from solar maximum to the declining phase is fast, happening within a few (27 day) solar rotations. They also showed that the declining phase is twice as long in even-numbered solar cycles as it is in odd-numbered cycles.
High-value chemicals to be made from agricultural waste thanks to RAEng Fellowship
Dr Alexander Darlington from the School of Engineering at the University of Warwick has been awarded one of sixteen fellowships in the 20th cohort of Royal Academy of Engineering Research Fellowships.
New analysis reveals how region-wide policies might be ineffective in eliminating local risk factors for coronavirus spread
Using Italy as a case study, researchers from Warwick Economics have studied the impact of regional lockdown interventions on the spread of the virus during the “second wave” which began around November 2020. They find that regional policies – limited lockdowns - were not “local enough" to fully tackle local covid-19 risk differences, and argue that interventions could be tailored to better target areas at high contagion risk due to local factors, while allowing for the relaxation of restrictions in areas with lower infection risk, protecting both public health and the economy.