A blog post from Professor Nigel Thrift, Vice-Chancellor and President of the University of Warwick: Are disciplines becoming less important? I think they are. Universities are gradually changing how they operate as disciplines become less central to the construction of knowledge...

A blog post from Professor Nigel Thrift, Vice-Chancellor and President of the University of Warwick: "It is always interesting—and difficult—to consider global intellectual trends. They are few and can be nebulous, retailed by intellectuals from right or left who are sure that they have found a lasting solution to whatever they think ails the world...

A blog post from Professor Nigel Thrift, Vice-Chancellor and President of the University of Warwick: There is an issue, which may or may not be a problem for universities around the world, but that is certainly gaining a lot of attention in Britain and the United States—namely, attention itself...

Predictably responses to Mrs Thatcher's death are polarised between those who adored or admired her and those who hated her. Professor Wyn Grant, Politics and International Studies, believes Mrs Thatcher was the first person in power to argue against the dominant view that Britain's relative economic decline was inevitable and simply had to be 'managed'.

As people all over the UK today discuss Big Data, following the BBC's Horizon TV show last night, The Age of Big Data, Assistant Professor Tobias Preis commented, "The age of Big Data has arrived, and is constantly transforming the world we inhabit. BBC Horizon showcased some of the areas in which revealing patterns from vast amounts of data, in particular for the prediction of future behaviour, is of vital social and economic importance."