Senior Teaching Fellow Michael Synnott researches infrastructural management and strategy. Speaking ahead of the Autumn Statement next week, he suggests there is an urgent need for fiscal reform of cities in the UK.

Dr John Parkinson, Department of Politics and International Studies, warns there is not enough motivation for people to turn out and vote in the elections today.

Don’t expect much turnout. Largely because of the nature of the seats being fought, there are few motivating factors here – few local controversies whose solutions are in local hands, a lack of proper competition in many areas and a related information vacuum. ...

This week’s launch of the 'Better Together' or 'No' campaign for the 2014 Scottish independence referendum means that the battle over Scotland’s constitutional future now begins in earnest. Alex Smith, Senior Research Fellow in the Department of Sociology explains how the next two years will prove decisive in the history of both Scotland and the United Kingdom – whether or not the former elects to leave the latter in 2014.

Professor Robert Jackson from the University of Warwick expressed concerns at a conference this week that cuts and policy changes by the government had marginalised Religious Education in schools.

Alan Dolan, associate professor in men’s health at the University of Warwick, argues that society is partly to blame for men failing to take of their own health.