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Warwick drives opportunities for technology specialists thanks to £1.5m grant

Mon, 18 Mar 2024 10:15:18 GMT

The University of Warwick has been awarded £1.5m to support opportunities and development activities for technology specialists.

Warwick awarded £11 million to train PhD students in computational modelling

Tue, 12 Mar 2024 15:07:00 GMT

The University of Warwick has been awarded £11m to train PhD students in computational modelling.

Environmental research takes centre stage for 2021 Festival of Social Science

Tue, 12 Oct 2021 08:47:00 GMT

Warwick researchers will host a month-long series of free events as the university’s contribution to the 2021 ESRC Festival of Social Science. This year’s programme has a strong focus on environmental issues, reflecting the UK’s role as host of the COP26 conference.

Williams Racing and Department of Applied Linguistics at the University of Warwick announce project partnership

Thu, 09 Sep 2021 08:39:00 GMT

Experts in elite sports communication from the University of Warwick will be working with one of the UK’s top motor racing teams to look at language use in a Formula 1™ team during live racing events. The Sports Culture and Communication Research Collective within the Department of Applied Linguistics and the Williams Racing F1 team will apply a linguistic lens to communication in the high-pressure context of Grand Prix racing.

Expert advisory group to help drive progress towards more good jobs in the post-pandemic UK

Tue, 10 Aug 2021 11:17:26 GMT

A new group of expert economic and social sciences researchers has come together to provide independent, evidence-based advice to policymakers on work and employment as the UK emerges from the COVID-19 pandemic. Launched this morning (10 August 2021), the Renewing Work Advisory Group of Experts (ReWAGE) will be co-chaired by Professor Chris Warhurst of the University of Warwick’s Institute for Employment Research and Professor Irena Grugulis, Chair of Work and Skills at Leeds University Business School.

Online toolkit created to support grassroots volunteering

Mon, 08 Feb 2021 13:25:10 GMT

An easy to use online toolkit has been launched by a researcher from the University of Warwick to help anyone motivated to volunteer in the Global South to turn their ambitions into practical action.

Political researchers to study how ideas become "framed" for debate

Thu, 17 Dec 2020 11:40:00 GMT

Who decides how political ideas are ‘framed,’ and how are these frames shared with others? A new international three-year project led by Dr Ozlem Atikcan of Warwick’s Department of Politics and International Studies, Professor Anna Holzscheiter of Germany’s TU Dresden, and Professor Jean- Frédéric Morin of Canada’s Université Laval aims to find out.

Boundary-spanning research centre launches six new projects

Mon, 05 Oct 2020 10:50:00 GMT

From improving mapping of species at risk to analysing the uptake of COVID-19 test and tracing apps by the public, researchers at the University of Warwick's Centre for Interdisciplinary Methodologies (CIM) are launching six new projects investigating how new technologies are shaping society, and demonstrating how data science can tackle current social, political and ecological challenges.

Can the Open City truly exist? New research will focus on urban life in London

Thu, 11 Jun 2020 12:51:49 GMT

A new project led by Professor John Solomos of Warwick Sociology will look at the social and political life of London to test whether the utopian ideal of the Open City exists in real life, and explore issues of race, migration, mobility and living with diversity.

Safeguarding human rights during the coronavirus response - new projects from Warwick Law

Wed, 10 Jun 2020 10:17:00 GMT

Sharifah Sekalala, Associate Professor in Warwick School of Law, will be taking on two significant projects aimed at ensuring that human rights don’t get eroded in the national and international response to the coronavirus pandemic with support from the ESRC Impact Acceleration Account.