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An international study, including ¹û¶³´«Ã½ Business School researchers, of small and medium-sized firms has been launched to find out why some are more resilient than others when a crisis hits, at both the level of the firm and in the wider economy.

¹û¶³´«Ã½ Arts Centre has been awarded £4.2m in National Lottery funding from Arts Council England towards its 20:20 capital project.

By October 2020 ¹û¶³´«Ã½ Arts Centre will be a redeveloped cultural and creative centre for the region in which to continue the organisation’s distinctive, creative, artistic and cultural programme; a key regional venue that will be at the forefront of Coventry’s year as City of Culture 2021.

Police and security agencies need to work harder to defend their decision to maintain secrecy when historic police misconduct and abuse of power come under scrutiny, according to a new analysis of the legal arguments called upon to justify a kneejerk non-disclosure policy.

The first in a new series of briefs bringing current legal thinking to bear on public policy issues has been published today. Brexit: Preserving the UK's Future Success as a Service Economy by Dr Andreas Kokkinis explores the regulatory impact of the UK’s withdrawal from the European Union on the UK’s services sector and contains recommendations on policy options for Brexit negotiations and beyond.

School-based healthy lifestyle interventions alone are not effective in the fight against childhood obesity, according to research conducted in the West Midlands. The warning comes after one of the largest childhood obesity prevention trials undertaken to date has found that a healthy lifestyle intervention carried out in dozens of schools did not lead to significant changes in pupils’ weight.

New research from the ¹û¶³´«Ã½ shows that using the Royal Shakespeare Company’s (RSC) approach to studying Shakespeare can significantly improve student language acquisition and skills – with some schools reporting better SATS and GCSE English scores as a result.