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Two artists received special prizes for their creative work at this year's Lancaster University Fine Art students' degree show.

A new report that investigates the UK's cultural ecology, highlights the importance of 'everyday' creativity and calls for a more inclusive approach to building the networks and partnerships that enable creativity in the UK is to be launched at King's this evening.

Oxford University has lent a violin from its collection to Aboud Kaplo, a 14-year-old Syrian musician.

University opens doors to locals for first-ever community festival Residents across Brighton & Hove and Sussex are invited to a day of free fun and discovery at the end of June as the University of Sussex throws open its doors for its first-ever Sussex Community Festival.

They are part of an installation called The Gaps Between, which has been organised by The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities (TORCH) Like many cities, Oxford has a long and varied history.

Leading international specialists in art history have launched a collaborative research project centring around one of Glasgow Museums' most famous paintings 'The Lady in a Fur Wrap' attributed to El Greco (1541-1614). The new research is being led by the University of Glasgow, in partnership with Glasgow Museums which owns the painting and related portraits in the important collection formed by Sir William Stirling Maxwell.

Warwick's Venetian campus will host ' Italy is Out ', a unique exhibition of photographer Mario Badagliacca's work during this year's Art Night Venezia, on Saturday 17 June.

Newhaven Fortâ??s new musical role in the story of conscientious objectors A choral performance that explores the experiences of conscientious objectors during the First World War is being performed at Newhaven Fort in East Sussex on June 9-11.

A Spotify-like app that lets scientists quickly access research papers online has been developed by an Imperial researcher and an alumnus.

The identity of Leonardo's mother has until now been shrouded in mystery. But a forthcoming book by Professor Martin Kemp, Emeritus Professor of the History of Art at Trinity College and Oxford University, has identified her as 15 year old orphan Caterina di Meo Lippi, who gave birth to Leonardo on 15 April 1452.

A ten-year research and restoration project to save one of the Fitzwilliam Museum's Renaissance masterpieces was rewarded with a major national accolade this week.

The University of Warwick Centre for Modern Languages is hosting a special evening of poetry and film to mark the launch of a new research project Chilean Exiles and World University Service (WUS) on 25 May 2017 at 18:00 in the Warwick Arts Centre cinema.

The University of Nottingham has delivered a project aimed at upskilling professionals working in China's screen industries.

Digital reporter bursaries available for Attenborough Centre project The Space digital reporter creative bursaries for REFRAIN, an immersive, site-specific performance in Newhaven Fort, East Sussex.

The University of Nottingham recently held a workshop which looked at ways in which music can be used to help people with dementia.

Situations and Attenborough Centre for the Creative Arts present REFRAIN at Newhaven Fort, East Sussex Over three days in summer 2017 (9-11 June), visitors can experience Newhaven Fort as never before, through a new immersive, choral experience devised by composer and artist Verity Standen.

Ian Hinchliffe was a performance artist, as well as an installation maker, a painter, and an occasional small-screen star.

Samuel Pepys is best known for his diary writing. But thanks to an Oxford University music DPhil student, we now know a lot more about the music he commissioned.

Dr Bob Sturm, from the School of Electronic Engineering and Computer Science, and Kingston University's Dr Oded Ben-Tal explain their research creating artificial intelligence that can write folk music and whether this can open new areas of creativity.

A new project led by the Centre for Digital Music at Queen Mary University of London (QMUL) will use the latest advances in digital technology to uncover how melodic patterns have developed in jazz music. The team, which involves researchers from France, Germany, USA and City, University of London, UK, suggest that a 'Big Data' approach where algorithms analyse huge collections of audio samples can help to understand how musical ideas in jazz have developed as the form has grown.

Mark Elliott, Professor of Public Law, posted a number of tweets yesterday extracting key paragraphs from the Government's White Paper on the Great Repeal Bill and offering some preliminary thoughts.

Dr Daisy Fancourt has been selected to take part in the BBC's 2017 New Generation Thinkers programme.

University of Glasgow academic Dr Alistair Fraser has today been named as a New Generation Thinker by the BBC.

The UK will today hold its first live music census aiming to take a snapshot of the general public's musical choices and tastes, how they engage with music, the formats they prefer to changes in musical trends.

Researchers from the University of Warwick have teamed up with international artists to put on a free 6 day public programme at the Tate Modern in London spanning the visual arts, film, photography, design, architecture, spoken and written word running from 14-19 March 2017.

A great Italian opera by Franz Liszt - which lay incomplete and largely forgotten in a German archive for nearly two centuries - will be given its world premiere this summer after being resurrected by a Cambridge academic.

A major new project to record the Welsh language and explore the ways in which it is used today is underway.

A joint venture between the Royal College of Music and Imperial was awarded £1 million for a new research project on the arts and health.

Students from the University of Warwick are presenting a globally unique spectacle of world music on Sunday 26 Feb in the Warwick Arts Centre.