A blog post from Professor Nigel Thrift, Vice-Chancellor and President of the University of Warwick:

It is fascinating to see how academic communication is changing around the world. A new generation of scholars is using online tools to grapple with issues of public concern. In the past, the communications choices were fairly simple. There were journal articles and books to reach other academics. There were the occasional professors on television, the various columnists in the print media, and, with a bit of luck and a lot of application, news articles about university work. But the times are changing. Many more channels mean that much more content is dispersed...

The latest blog from Professor Nigel Thrift, Vice-Chancellor and President of the University of Warwick:

The British attitude to Europe often seems sad and unnecessarily destructive.

The idea of withdrawing from the European Union is profoundly mistaken, promoted by a ragtag of interests and members of the national press who often seem to confuse Europe with immigrants and run stories with two variants: “They’re taking our money” and “it’s just a crazy bureaucracy.” The result is clear enough: Britain has become more and more marginalized within Europe, a stance that can only make it more and more marginal to the world at large...

The latest blog from Professor Nigel Thrift, Vice-Chancellor and President of the University of Warwick:

I read recently a remarkable article in The New Yorker by Atul Gawande called “Big Med.” It tried to outline where medicine might be going next...

Professor Roger Gadsby, of Warwick Medical School, was the expert in demand this week as news broke that the Duchess of Cambridge was suffering with hyperemesis gravidarum.

For lots of kids, studying Shakespeare is not the life enriching experience it could be. Some find his plays downright dusty or impenetrable. But Professor Jonothan Neelands from the says it doesn't have to be that way and he's made it his goal to change the way Shakespeare is taught in classrooms in the UK and across the world. The way to do it, he says, is to get classrooms to adopt techniques used by actors and directors who perform Shakespeare.