Former University of Warwick student Jane Commane has been awarded a £15,000 poetry fellowship for her work in literature. Ms Commane, originally from Warwickshire and now based in Coventry, graduated from Warwick with both Bachelor and Masters degrees from the Department of English and Comparative Literary Studies. Besides the fellowship,...
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Do the extreme phsycial transformations of actors for a specific role actually help them better embody the character?
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New findings from research at Warwick University has revealed that a good night’s sleep can be as exhilarating as winning a lottery jackpot of around £20,000. The research, which analysed the sleep patterns of more than 30, 500 people in UK households across four years, was carried out by Dr...
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New findings from research at Warwick University have shown that social media can be used to predict extreme weather events. The research, carried out by PHD student Nataliya Tkachenko and her supervisors in the Department of Computer Science, found that certain ‘words’ and photos on social media can act to...
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It’s Pride Month on campus, and we are celebrating a movement towards equality for the University of Warwick’s transgender and non-binary community. Last month, the decision to introduce gender-neutral toilets across campus, the result of a campaign by Warwick Pride, was widely viewed as a step towards broader and better...
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Warwick University notes no further anti-Semitic incidents this year despite figures from Community Security Trust (CST) showing an increase in such hate crimes on university campuses, with 41 incidents reported in 2016, compared to 21 in 2015. These unchanged levels of anti-Semitism come after several students and societies, including Warwick...
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In honour of International Holocaust Memorial Day, Warwick SU has teamed up with the Modern Records Centre to educate students about the atrocious genocide committed 72 years ago under Nazi rule, the extermination of six million Jews and the other minorities murdered in concentration camps around Europe. And it seems...
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A protest was held this afternoon at Warwick University to oppose US President Donald Trump’s controversial executive order restricting immigration, which has been dubbed a “Muslim ban”. The protest was initiated by Warwick Friends of Palestine Society and then organised through a collaborative effort with societies, including Warwick Anti-Racism Society,...
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Martia Dimmer reviews the shocking and deeply moving 'Birth of a Nation', where Nate Parker successfully makes his directorial debut.
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A fundraising campaign for Alexander Paul, a Warwick student requiring treatment abroad for brain cancer, has reached its £50,000 target. Alexander studied Politics and International Studies at Warwick, and needs to travel to a clinic in Germany for specialised treatment. The Just Giving page was started by Alexander’s family and...
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Over £40,000 worth of donations have been donated to a Warwick undergraduate seeking cancer treatment abroad.
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Warwick University is second only to Southampton in the pay afforded to Russell Group vice-chancellors, despite Warwick’s incumbent Stuart Croft taking a substantial pay-cut on his predecessor Nigel Thrift. The new figures combine pensions and payoffs for outgoing vice-chancellors with salaries of those currently in position. In total, Southampton University paid £697,000...
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2016 has been a rather turbulent year on the global politics front. A downward acceleration through controversial foreign policies, presidential candidates and celebrity deaths that left us all questioning when this doomed rollercoaster would start its upward journey. And whilst films like Hacksaw Ridge and Lion were there in our...
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