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School of Engineering Awarded Athena Swan Gold for Gender Equality Excellence

Thu, 12 Jun 2025 10:00:00 GMT

The School of Engineering at The University of Warwick has been awarded the prestigious Athena Swan Gold Award, the highest honour for exceptional and sustained commitment to gender equality in higher education and research.

New £5.5m national Institute of Technical Skills and Strategy to support UK’s bid to be a global research and innovation superpower

Wed, 08 Mar 2023 11:03:52 GMT

A new £5.5 million national institute is to be launched to ensure that the UK has the technical capability and capacity across academia, research, education, and innovation to enable the UK to be a global superpower in science, engineering, and the creative industries.

Warwick Student Chayn Kohli’s work toward improving gender equality began when she was just 14 in India.

Thu, 12 Jan 2023 09:10:13 GMT

Second-year BSc Management student Chayn Kohli is the Winner of the Student Award for excellence in gender equality 2022 and has been recognised for her work in India as well as at the University of Warwick. Her work began when she was just 14, working with underprivileged families in India educating women and girls in maths and English, as well as women’s health topics that are considered taboo, like menstruation and hygiene.

University of Warwick recognised for commitment to race equality

Tue, 10 May 2022 14:07:15 GMT

The University of Warwick has achieved the Race Equality Charter Bronze award, recognising its commitment to working towards race equality.

The national charter mark, awarded by Advance HE, marks an institutional determination to tackle race inequality at all levels.

Large-scale experiment reveals new insights into inequality in the workplace

Fri, 17 Sep 2021 18:08:00 GMT

Is there a flaw in initiatives to increase diversity at work? A new study by researchers at Columbia University and the University of Warwick finds that in the USA, white employees can unintentionally perpetuate inequality by ignoring and underestimating their black peers.

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.

Exploring the impact of COVID-19 on BAME carers in Coventry and Leicester

Tue, 09 Feb 2021 11:11:00 GMT

The impact of COVID-19 on older people and their carers in Coventry and Leicester’s BAME communities will be explored as part of a major new study into how social and economic inequalities have affected health and care provision during the pandemic.

Manels, Wanels and vacuuming - can conferences be more inclusive?

Mon, 17 Feb 2020 11:07:35 GMT

A ground-breaking collection of papers examining gender, conference participation, and academic progress across the globe has been co-edited by Warwick researcher Dr Emily Henderson. Thoughtful Gatherings, a special issue of the academic journal Gender and Education, is the first collection of gender and feminist scholarship specifically focusing on conferences and includes papers from the US, the UK, Australia, New Zealand, and India.

Female caregivers in war zones need recognition and support – new research

Fri, 23 Aug 2019 14:58:00 GMT

In conflict zones around the world, women’s health and wellbeing will decline further, unless caregivers are given better state social protection, according to collaborative intercontinental research by the University of Warwick (UK) and Monash University (Australia).

Living in a ‘war zone’ linked to delivery of low birthweight babies

Wed, 29 Nov 2017 10:04:48 GMT

Mums-to-be living in war zones/areas of armed conflict are at heightened risk of giving birth to low birthweight babies. However the evidence for any impact on the rate of other complications of pregnancy is less clear. That’s the findings of a review of the available evidence conducted by the University of Warwick and published in the online journal BMJ Global Health.