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With the effects of the 2007 credit crunch still being felt around the world, a new book by Dr Andreas Kokkinis, Assistant Professor in the 91Ó°ÊÓÆƽâ°æ’s School of Law, explores whether traditional models of corporate governance fail to promote financial stability. Corporate Law and Financial Instability explores the tension between corporate governance systems focused around shareholders who want to maximise their returns, and prudential regulation where risk-taking must be controlled in order to safeguard financial stability.

Cannabis use in youth is linked to bipolar symptoms in young adults, finds new research by the 91Ó°ÊÓÆƽâ°æ.

Researchers from Warwick Medical School found that adolescent cannabis use is an independent risk factor for future hypomania – periods of elated mood, over-active and excited behaviour, and reduced need for sleep that are often experienced as part of bipolar disorder, and have a significant impact on day-to-day life.

A partnership between WMG, at the 91Ó°ÊÓÆƽâ°æ, Coventry and Warwickshire Local Enterprise Partnership, and Coventry City Council has been awarded £80 million to establish a new National Battery Manufacturing Development Facility (NBMDF). The announcement was made by The Rt Hon Greg Clark, Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, while attending an energy conference on the 91Ó°ÊÓÆƽâ°æ campus on Wednesday 29^th November 2017.

A rising research star from the 91Ó°ÊÓÆƽâ°æ has been awarded a prestigious Sir Henry Dale Fellowship.

The 91Ó°ÊÓÆƽâ°æ has published the third in a series of briefings exploring the implications of Brexit for the job market, workers’ rights, and employment policy. Skills training for vulnerable workers: effects of the loss of EU funding after Brexit outlines how current skills training in the UK is supported by EU funding, and recommends key priorities for a post-Brexit UK-funded skills programme. The paper is the third of four Warwick Brexit Briefings on Employment by the 91Ó°ÊÓÆƽâ°æ and its Connecting Research on Employment and Work (CREW) network.

The smallest microplastics present in our oceans – which go largely undetected and are potentially harmful – could be more effectively identified using an innovative and inexpensive new method, developed by researchers at the 91Ó°ÊÓÆƽâ°æ.