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Improved regulation has deterred a greater amount of financial misconduct in the UK since the global financial crisis, according to new research published today.

Researchers at UEA, Bangor University, and the Universities of Warwick and Otago conducted an analysis differentiating between detection and deterrence of financial misconduct during the period 2002-2016.

Since the crisis of 2007, there has been increased awareness of the risks posed by the conduct of financial institutions and their employees. More incidents of financial misconduct have been investigated, with regulators applying increasingly large fines and demanding the repayment of profits.

However, it remains uncertain if these regulatory changes have limited how much financial misconduct occurs and so this study examined whether regulators have improved their capacity to detect or deter financial misconduct since the end of the crisis in 2010.

Dr. Bryan Brazeau has been awarded an Erasmus+ Organisational Support grant to explore potential partnerships at the , particularly around the themes of sustainability and sustainable development in the Veneto region.

Dr. Bryan Brazeau will be participating in the Warwick-Warburg Doctoral Training Program on Thursday, 17 May. He will be giving a talk on ‘Social Media, Digital Networking, and Scholarly Communication’ at the Warburg institute in London covering topics such as the effective use of Twitter (scholarly communication, live-tweeting conferences, harvesting Twitter data) and the benefits and pitfalls of using a for-profit platform, such as for promoting publications.

The School for Cross-Faculty Studies' student-run magazine GLOBUS features an article by Dr Bryan Brazeau, titled 'Schools of Athens: Liberal Arts and Global Challenges'.

"As an educational discipline, Liberal Arts is all about critical and independent thinking – as its scholars therefore have very independent views, Liberal Arts has a different meaning for different individuals, be they scholars, teachers, or students. Here, Dr. Bryan Brazeau explores his own perspective, based on his background in classical culture during the Italian renaissance." (T Olive, Editor)

Three Warwick Liberal Arts students have been published in the .

This special issue of 'Reinvention' celebrates the research carried out by undergraduate students at universities involved in the BLASTER project. Each of the students is studying (or recently graduated from) a Liberal Arts and Sciences programme in the UK or Europe, and as such this special issue showcases the interdisciplinary work taking place in these institutions.

Our congratulations to our students, Najma Ahmad, Saskia Kaltenbrunner and Ceara Webster.