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Want happier, more productive workers? Turn the music on Listening to music at work can help office workers relax, improve their mood and make them feel happier, according to research from the University of Sheffield's Department of Music. Anneli Haake´s study, which was recently published in the journal Musicae Scientiae, surveyed 300 people and found that music could fulfil a range of important functions for employees, including providing relief from stress and improving concentration.

Online Arts Journal the Manchester Review is this afternoon publishing an exclusive extract from Jennifer Egan's award-winning novel 'A Visit from the Goon Squad'.

Sundance premiere for film inspired by Mass-Obs archive A unique film made by two Hollywood directors and inspired by the Mass Observation Archive at the University of Sussex is to get its world premiere at the famous Sundance Film Festival in Utah, USA this month.

Kettle's Yard this month launches a new music series curated by composer Stephen Montague which runs until May.

The University of Oxford is today releasing some sample Oxford questions - direct from the tutors who conduct the's - to provoke thought and help explain the reasoning behind even the most strange-sounding questions.

An early work by composer Ralph Vaughan Williams - born 138 years ago today - is to be performed for the first time after being spotted in an exhibition at Cambridge University Library.

A cross-European project has found that the use of computer music technologies can motivate young people who might otherwise leave school without the basic skills to gain employment.

In 2010, graffiti is widely seen as an eyesore and an act of vandalism, holding for many distinctly negative connotations.

Research in the arts and humanities deserves wider recognition for the broad range of palpable contributions it is making to the life of the nation, a new report suggests.

Maria Balshaw, Director of The Whitworth Art Gallery at The University of Manchester, has been awarded £260,000 as one of five recipients of the 2010 Paul Hamlyn Foundation Breakthrough Fund.

Poetry is firmly in the spotlight at Oxford University this week as the nominations for the prestigious Professor of Poetry post closed at 4pm on Wednesday 5 May.

Hollywood loves a good comeback story – and sometimes it is the films themselves that are resurrected from the dead. In tribute, Peninsula Arts is set to screen five classic films under the banner of ‘Revival’ – with many of them playing on the big screen in Plymouth for the first time. The Revival season opens with an international double bill in the University of Plymouth’s Jill Craigie Cinema on 22 April.

The achievements of local organisations in their attempt to reduce the impact of global poverty were showcased yesterday, Thursday 1st April when the UK Foreign Secretary David Miliband visited Cambridge.

Experts from the Institute of Psychiatry at King's, have called for urgent educational and harm reduction guidance on mephedrone, in an Editorial published in the 'The recent deaths of two young men

On Sunday 21 March, 200 musicians from across King's College London came together for the second Arts and Humanities Alumni Concert, a performance of Verdi's choral masterpiece, the in one of London's most prestigious concert venues, Cadogan Hall.

Taking the re-examination of the Small Press Collection of rare magazines housed at UCL as its theme, this event gives visitors the chance to engage with the spirit of the alternative 'avant-garde' press, re-visiting early texts that straddle the divide between art and poetry ?

A new National Portrait Gallery display of unseen paintings of 16th- and 17th-century mystery figures opens at the National Trust?s Montacute House tomorrow.