Authors : Joseph Chuang St John's College Oxford Kai Meng Tan Department of Mathematics National University of Singapore Abstract: In this paper, what is known about defect 2 blocks of symmetric groups is used to deduce information about corresponding blocks of Schur algebras. This information includes Ext-quivers, decomposition numbers, and Loewy structures of the Weyl modules, principal indecomposable modules and tilting modules. Current status: Preprint (accepted by the Bulletin of the LMS)