The UK’s national statistician has suggested that next year’s census could be our last. After 200 years of officially documenting Britain’s households, it may be scrapped in favour of cheaper and easier ways of collecting the data. Professor Sarah Richardson from Warwick’s Department of History explains why we should mourn the loss of the decennial census.
Professor Nick Chater considers if we really need to follow rules and what would happen if we all ignored them all.
Happy people may be more productive - but can they work together? Results from recent laboratory experiments suggest that while good mood will normally boost workplace productivity, this might be blunted when cooperation with others is a vital feature of the job.
Most of us tend to think happiness as an unmeasurable, subjective, and ultimately fleeting concept. However, for the last thirty years or so, researchers - like Nick Powdthavee a professor of Behavioural Science at Warwick Business School - have been collecting data and studying what makes people tick.
New research on the Soviet economy in the prelude to World War II reveals a society at war with the world and within itself, writes Mark Harrison, professor of economics at the University of Warwick.
Personalities are like traditions – they can adjust and evolve, writes Nick Chater, Professor Behavioural Science from Warwick Business School.
Margaret Thatcher is famously alleged to have said: “A man who, beyond the age of 26, finds himself on a bus can count himself as a failure.” Though the provenance of this remark remains in question, one thing is clear: each year there are fewer such “failing men” — and women, for that matter, writes Professor Mike Waterson from the University of Warwick’s Department of Economics, for an article first published in Advantage Magazine.
When the dot-com bubble burst in 2000 it sent significant numbers of businesses to the wall. Fast forward 19 years, Professor John Colley looks at what might happen following the similar “app” boom.
Queen asked the question, Oasis quite fancied it but Lemmy from Motorhead didn’t want to. Living forever is something which has captured the imaginations of scientists and artists, well...forever.
There is a crisis of social care in England, but it was missing from the Chancellor’s Autumn Statement. Dr Juanita Elias and Professor Shirin Rai from the University of Warwick’s department of Politics and International Studies, discuss why this was the case. Did government fear the issue is just too big to tackle, or does it assume someone – normally women – will always step in to take on the job?
