Press Releases
New research on barriers to housing supply and the UK planning system
Affordable home ownership is at its lowest for 30 years with house prices now eight times higher than the average salary.
New trial launches to explore environmentally-sustainable shopping choices
A new research project launched today (15th) by a partnership including the University of Warwick will explore how shoppers can be encouraged to make more sustainable food choices while they do their online shopping.
Cuts in Social Spending are psychologically damaging, finds new research
There are substantial psychological gains from having a strong welfare state, finds new research done jointly by the University of Warwick and City University. Social spending acts to reduce citizens’ worries about the future.
More capital gains are received in one neighbourhood in Kensington than in Liverpool, Manchester and Newcastle combined, finds new report
Total capital gains have almost tripled over the last decade, to £65bn by 2019/20. Despite this, most people never receive any capital gains, with less than 3% of adults paying capital gains tax over a ten-year period. In any given year just 0.5% of adults receive any gains, less than the number of additional rate (“45p”) income tax payers.
WHO Director-General to speak at Europe’s largest Student-Run international forum, Warwick Economics Summit
The Warwick Economics Summit, Europe's largest entirely student-run international forum, is gearing up for another exceptional year of thought-provoking discussions and unparalleled insights.
The greatest secret of the Soviet Union: What we can learn about today’s most secretive states
Twenty-five years ago, after the fall of the Soviet Union, an academic at the University of Warwick began work in the Russian archives to map the sophisticated regime that made the Soviet Union the most secretive state that ever existed.