The University of Warwick is a public research university on the outskirts of Coventry, between the West Midlands and Warwickshire in England. It was founded in 1965 as part of a government initiative to expand higher education. Warwick Business School was established in 1967, Warwick Law School in 1968, and the medical school in 2000. The university is organised into three faculties, Arts, Science Engineering and Medicine, and Social Sciences, which hold thirty-two departments, and by the end of 2023 it had over 28,000 students, of whom more than 9,000 were postgraduates.
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in post-nominal letters) is a public research university on the outskirts of Coventry between the West Midlands and Warwickshire, England.
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The university was founded in 1965 as part of a government initiative to expand higher education.
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Margaret Scotford Archer (20 January 1943-21 May 2023) was a British sociologist, who spent most of her academic career at the University of Warwick where she was for many years Professor of Sociology.
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Colin Crouch is currently Emeritus Professor at the University of Warwick and an External Scientific Member of the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies. == Biography == Crouch was born in Isleworth on 1 March 1944.
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He was a lecturer at the universities of Leeds (1949-62) (where he was a leading left-wing activist), Birmingham (1962-64), Durham (1964-70), Warwick (1970-79 and 1984-90), Aston (1979-84), Toronto (1974-75), Cape Town (1991) and New York (1996).
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