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Major Terminology Shift for PCOS: What It Means, According to a Warwick Endocrinologist
A significant development last week may help improve global understanding of a condition estimated to affect one in eight women worldwide. Warwick endocrinologist Professor Thomas Barber reacts to the news that polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS) has officially been renamed polyendocrine metabolic ovarian syndrome (PMOS).
Study highlights the costs of allowing the wealthy to opt out of solutions to global problems such as climate change
Allowing wealthy countries, communities, or individuals to fund their own solutions to problems such as global climate change is inefficient, increases inequality and leaves vulnerable communities unprotected – but the ‘private solution trap’ can be averted with policy interventions.
Government’s seven New Town locations scored against real-world demand data - Manchester and Leeds most likely to succeed
Warwick economists behind the Wheretobuild housing demand mapping tool have used their database to test the government’s seven-site shortlist against measures of likely success, and ranked the sites to help policymakers decide which to approve.
Celebrating 60 years of Philosophy: Online Exhibition
Our online exhibition brings together key moments, objects, and encounters from the Department’s history, showcasing the events, projects, and people that shaped its direction.
Making Do: New Book Reveals How Fabric Shaped Britain’s Postwar Recovery
Professor Susan Carruthers’ latest book, Making Do: Britons and the Refashioning of the Postwar World, was officially published on Thursday 24 April, offering a vivid new perspective on life after 1945.
Warwick research helps secure major shift in national cultural policy
Research from the Centre for Cultural and Media Policy Studies has played a direct role in securing a significant change to UK Government policy, with culture set to be formally recognised as a core area of competence within the English Devolution and Community Empowerment Bill.
WMG's Dr David Clark honoured at parliamentary event
The late Dr David Clark, a much-loved colleague and friend to everyone at Warwick Manufacturing Group (WMG), University of Warwick, has been commemorated with a new medal unveiled at this year’s Parliamentary & Scientific Committee’s STEM for Britain event.
WMG wins funding to apply acoustics to engineering innovation
Dr Hasina Rahman, Research Fellow at Warwick Manufacturing Group (WMG), University of Warwick, has been awarded funding by the Noise Network Plus to apply her innovative, unconventional approach of acoustics to materials engineering.
UK ambition is booming but small firm innovation sinks to four-year low
Small business innovation has fallen for the fourth consecutive year, and urgent action is needed to prevent the UK squandering record levels of entrepreneurial ambition, a major new report by the Enterprise Research Centre (ERC) reveals.
How to make wise AI systems
A new study from WBS Professor of Behavioural Science Nick Chater proposes realistic ways of integrating wisdom into artificial intelligence, with the aim of developing systems that are more robust, transparent, cooperative and safe. Explore new outlines methods for training large language models to behave more wisely.