From the adventures of Lara Croft in Tomb Raider to the apocalyptic drama of Fallout - new research from the University of Warwick has revealed the secret to how some of the world’s most iconic video games were created.

There is no evidence that family courts in England and Wales are discriminating against fathers because of gender bias, a new study by the University of Warwick and funded by the Nuffield Foundation has found.

An Assistant Professor at the University of Warwick’s School of Law has received a prestigious grant to study the Haitian slave revolution of 1791–1804. Dr Philip Kaisary’s Fulbright Scholar Award will see him travel to the US next month to begin the year-long research project at Vanderbilt University, on one of the most selective scholarship programmes operating worldwide.

A new publication about Wikipedia and the concept of open politics by a researcher at the University of Warwick has been chosen as the highly-coveted ‘Book of the Week’ by Times Higher Education (THE). ‘Wikipedia and the Politics of Openness’ by Dr Nathaniel Tkacz, from the Centre for Interdisciplinary Methodologies, is the first comprehensive critique of the role of openness in digital politics and beyond.

The Big Lottery is funding Addaction and its research partner, the Centre for Educational Development, Appraisal and Research (CEDAR) at the University of Warwick, to conduct a research project, Breaking the Cycle Through Social Investment.

This Year's Festival of Social Sciences will take place from Thursday 5 May to Thursday 26 May 2011. The Festival will celebrate the vibrancy and innovation of research and teaching in the social sciences at Warwick.

The Centre for Research in Ethic Relations has organised the following seminars. All seminars will run from 3:30pm to 5pm. Everyone is welcome to attend.

The Warwick Low Carbon Society Initiative are hosting a seminar on Thursday 19 May, which will look at the major challenges facing energy systems worldwide. The seminar will focus on how to achieve security of supply and mitigate climate change and, in these constrained times, the costs of achieving both.

Author of the New York Times best-seller Predictably Irrational, and named by Fortune Magazine as one of the ten new gurus you should know about, Dan Ariely will discuss his inclination towards the study of human behaviour as well as the recent publication of his latest book, The Upside of Irrationality.