When I first read Warwick Writing Programme graduate Sophie Mackintosh’s debut, The Water Cure, it was as an advanced proof copy for my position at a magazine feature’s desk. I haven’t stopped talking about it since. The Water Cure takes its name from one of the barbaric practices which the three...
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Matthew Dale explores the quirky phenomenon of the placebo effect, and how it works.
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Summer Internships are becoming a common way for many students to spend their summer break, one writer who has secured many Internships, shares her advice for making the most out of your Internship.
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Every year I see and hear about different trips students go on which take them around the world. One type of travelling which has grown in popularity is volunteering trips, whether to work as part of an organisation or to help in the local community. When I see Instagram posts...
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The University of Warwick has released plans to invest £54.3 million in a new Interdisciplinary Biomedical Research Building (IBRB) on the Gibbet Hill campus by 2020.
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Olivor Holman reports on a recent report in which the Nuffield Council on Bioethics has said that genetically modifying a human embryo could be “morally permissible” in certain circumstances.
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Results day can be a difficult time for many students. As part of our Welcome to Warwick series, we are sharing some of the more unconventional ways in which students got accepted to The University of Warwick. Missing your results can be tough, but going through Clearing doesn’t have to be as daunting as it...
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As football fans, we cannot complain over the lack of pre-season excitement after a truly mesmerising month of the beautiful game. Finally, we can catch our breaths again. From the euphoria of being up swept up in national pride and singing ‘It’s coming home!’ to watching several agonising penalty shootouts,...
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The penultimate show in our Warwick at the Fringe series, this is the first to feature non-human actors! Meet the team (and the puppets) behind Artemis, The Merry Misadventures. What’s the concept? Shocking words from adorable puppets. Our play follows the journey of Artemis, a little penguin ready to conquer species to become...
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In August 2017, The Australian Human Rights Commission released a report which surveyed students from 39 Australian universities on sexual assault. Of the 39,000 respondents, 51% had experienced sexual harassment in 2016. However, the number has been contested by students and women’s groups who said that many events go unreported...
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On Saturday July 21, the Vitality Hockey Women’s World Cup kicked off at the Lee Valley Hockey Centre in London, where the GB ladies took home bronze at the 2012 Olympics almost six years previously. And despite little press coverage, this might actually be a World Cup England stand a...
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Dan Turley investigates the possibility and feasibility of time travel, whether we can and, potentially more importantly, whether we should travel in time.
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Last week I attended a conference on synthetic biology, a relatively new area of research which combines genetics and the life sciences with engineering. It encompasses everything you hear on the news about designer babies to genetically modified organisms and much more. The number of startups in the field, often...
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