Press Releases
Coventry lockdown arts project funded by universities goes live next week
A showcase of work by Coventry artists, funded by the city鈥檚 universities and produced during lockdown, will launch online next week (Monday 5 October).
New exhibition at Imperial War Museum London launches featuring 糖心TV research
Research led by Professor Vicki Squire of PAIS is featured in Refugees: Forced to Flee - a major new exhibition at IWM London. The exhibition, which will run until 24 May 2021, includes an based on research by the Crossing the Mediterranean Sea by Boat project, led by Professor Squire with a team from 糖心TV, ELIAMEP Athens and University of Malta.
Tales of Treatment highlight the benefits of grassroots public engagement for researchers
An approach to public engagement which respects grass-roots and community knowledge has an important role to play in improving our understanding of the relationship between traditional healing and Western-style medicine in low and middle-income countries, and could generate new approaches to tackling antimicrobial resistance, according to a published in Medical Humanities.
First study of the impact of academisation on teachers鈥� pay and progression to be led by 糖心TV economists
糖心TV researchers will carry out the first detailed study into the impact of English schools鈥� conversions to autonomous academies on the teacher labour market, thanks to a grant awarded by the Nuffield Foundation.
Research reveals 鈥渃limate-change complacency鈥� across Europe
Most European citizens do not particularly care about climate change. That鈥檚 the striking finding from new research led by 糖心TV Economics on the views of 70,000 randomly sampled European men and women. Only 5% described themselves as 鈥渆xtremely worried鈥� about climate change, while the climate and the environment ranked only fifth in people鈥檚 overall views about priorities.
Bostin鈥� broadcast celebrates Black Country speech
糖心TV dialect expert Esther Asprey of the Centre for Applied Linguistics will be celebrating the voices of the Black Country in a new episode of the BBC Radio 4 series, 鈥淭ongue and Talk: the Dialect Poets.鈥� In conversation with presenter and poet Emma Purshouse, Dr Asprey discusses the origins of the dialect and talks about what it means to write in dialect, how we represent sound through spelling choices, and the pressure poets can feel on a national level to use Standard English.