Press Releases
WMG graduates who worked while studying already promoted
Gordon Harris from Solihull has worked in engineering for almost thirty years, and has just gained long-wished-for academic qualifications – boosting his career – after graduating with the first cohort from the Applied Engineering Programme (AEP) at WMG, University of Warwick.
New study to help improve life for headaches sufferers
A study led by University of Warwick could help thousands of headache sufferers. Researchers at the Warwick Medical School are investigating whether a new education and self-management programme will help improve quality of life for people living with chronic headaches.
Two Chairs Creative Writing Competition teaching children about unity
A new writing competition with prizes of £250, is inspiring Coventry schoolchildren to see the world from the perspective of other people.
The Two Chairs Creative Writing Competition, which is open to all, has seen its competition’s creator, Dr James Hodkinson of the University of Warwick, has been holding workshops in schools to discuss the themes and ideas behind the competition.
Dr Karl Schoonover receives Katherine Singer Kovács Award
The latest book by Dr Karl Schoonover, of the University of Warwick’s Department of Film and Television Studies, Queer Cinema in the World, has been named the 2017-2018 Katherine Singer Kovács Award for the year’s outstanding book in cinema and media studies by the Society for Cinema and Media Studies (SCMS).
Warwickshire's suffrage history to be told across the region in 2018
Professor Sarah Richardson, of the University of Warwick's Department of History, will be giving talks on Warwickshire's suffrage across the region in 2018. Coinciding with the 100th anniversary of the granting of the vote to a limited number of women, Warwickshire Women and the Fight for the Vote will uncover the region's unsung and unknown activists.
Adding graphene girders to silicon electrodes could double the life of lithium batteries
New research led by WMG, at the University of Warwick has found an effective approach to replacing graphite in the anodes of lithium-ion batteries using silicon, by reinforcing the anode’s structure with graphene girders. This could more than double the life of rechargeable lithium-ion based batteries by greatly extending the operating lifetime of the electrode, and also increase the capacity delivered by those batteries.