Press Releases
More Leverhulme Success for University
Another member of the University of Warwick Department of Sociology has been awarded a prestigious Philip Leverhulme Prize in the 2017 awards round. Dr Maria do Mar Pereira’s prize brings the University’s total to five, out of just thirty prizes awarded nationally this year across different disciplines.
Warwick academic honoured with British Sociological Association Distinguished Service award
Professor John Solomos from the University of Warwick Department of Sociology has been given this year’s Distinguished Service to British Sociology Award, an award made each year by the British Sociological Association to an outstanding individual who has contributed greatly to the discipline.
How does your dog feel about training? A new research project aims to find out
On the first day of the Year of the Dog 2018, researchers at the Universities of Warwick, Cardiff and Scotland’s Rural College are launching a new website introducing an innovative research project that will study dog training as a means to explore how different training cultures shape the animal-human relationship, from the animal’s point of view as well as the human’s.
Is Santa Paws visiting your pet this year?
University of Warwick researcher Professor Nickie Charles looks at the ways we make our dogs and other companion animals part of our Christmas and asks whether pets really enjoy the rituals of Christmas alongside their human companions.
University of Warwick scoops four Leverhulme prizes
Four University of Warwick academics have won Philip Leverhulme Prizes in the 2017 awards round.
Evidence of Midlife Suicide among Females in Western Society
New research from the University of Warwick documents modern international evidence of a midlife peak in suicide risk