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Warwick wins new funding to catalyse devolved cultural policy making

Thu, 22 Jan 2026 10:21:00 GMT

New Co-Lab Policy Network Award will support innovative cross-sector cultural policy networks in devolved nations and regions of the UK.

Warwick welcomes MPs from the House of Commons’ Education Select Committee

Tue, 18 Nov 2025 14:00:00 GMT

Four MPs visited Warwick for discussions on the present challenges, opportunities, and future of higher education.

“Clunky and challenging” – views on getting married in England and Wales outlined in new briefing

Mon, 10 Jan 2022 12:00:06 GMT

The law on weddings in England and Wales has been too slow to respond to religious and cultural diversity and the increasing number of people who do not identify with any religion at all, finds a new study led by University of Warwick researcher Dr Rajnaara Akhtar of Warwick Law School.

World Population Day: The research at Warwick making gender a mainstream consideration in the analysis of development

Fri, 09 Jul 2021 16:07:42 GMT

This year's UN World Population Day (11 July) theme is gender equality. The Warwick Interdisciplinary Centre for International Development (WICID) seeks to make gender a mainstream consideration in the analyses of development issues today.

Major summit hosted by Coventry’s universities to discuss direction of travel for cultural policy

Tue, 08 Jun 2021 23:00:00 GMT

The University of Warwick and Coventry University will host a major summit of regional and national leaders this month to present plans for the impact and legacy of cultural mega-events like City of Culture.

Researchers point to populism’s appeal to victimhood and resentment

Fri, 26 Mar 2021 09:00:00 GMT

A new study from the Department of Politics and International Studies at the University of Warwick combines research on populist rhetoric, emotions and security in order to examine how particular groups of voters are mobilized.

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.

UK study will evaluate the particular pressures of COVID-19 on working-class women

Wed, 15 Jul 2020 16:17:00 GMT

The impact of COVID-19 on working-class women in the UK will be explored by a team of researchers from the University of Warwick, the University of Nottingham and the Women’s Business Group in a new year-long study funded by the Economic and Social Research Council, part of UKRI.

10 years since the austerity budget - researchers explore impact on life in the UK

Mon, 22 Jun 2020 11:24:00 GMT

The economic shock of coronavirus has brought perennial questions about government borrowing and spending, NHS funding, social care and welfare, inequality in income and education, and wellbeing, into renewed focus. In a special edition of Advantage magazine published to mark 10 years since the Austerity budget, leading economists reflect on these issues and consider what lessons can be learnt as the UK plans its recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic.

Reforming UK tax so that richest pay their ‘fair share’ could raise £11 billion to help rebuild post-Covid-19 public finances, says new report.

Mon, 15 Jun 2020 09:48:33 GMT

Around £11 billion a year could be raised from an Alternative Minimum Tax rate based on the total amount of income and capital gains that a person reports before applying any deductions or reliefs, according to new research which has gained unprecedented access to the tax records of the UK’s richest individuals.