Teaching & Learning
Culture enables creative and imaginative teaching and learning, and we embrace opportunities for knowledge exchange with a cultural dimension.
We include two examples of innovative pedagogic practice, that bring artists and the arts into the ‘classroom’. In these examples, culture enables curiosity, imagination and creative responses. With a focus on the co-creation of new and original thinking and action, students are encouraged to connect to real world issues and insights.
Our third example celebrates progress towards culture making research knowledge accessible and inclusive.
The Heart of the HeartLink opens in a new window
This collaboration was between academics in the School of Life Sciences led by Kevin Moffat and the poet Sujatha Menon. It brought together the power of poetry and science through an exploration of the heart by schoolchildren. A poetry trail is being planned as part of the 60th Anniversary celebrations as a legacy of this project.
Kevin said of working with Sujatha: “I have witnessed how this amazing creative works, enthuses and induces scientists into another world…Crashing together poetry and science turns out works for all ages and interests.”
Acting ResponsiblyLink opens in a new window
Acting Responsibly is a Warwick Business School finalist undergraduate elective that adopts a theatre inspired approach to teaching business ethics. Using theatrical texts and rehearsal room exercises, the module encourages learning through critical, imagined, and felt experience.
Acting Responsibly illuminates the complexity and messiness of lived experience manifest in ethical dilemmas inviting students to step into the shoes of others to discover new perspectives, viewpoints and ways of seeing and responding to power asymmetries.
The ethical dilemmas faced by individuals and organisations are used to question the values we hold, what and who shapes them, how they inform the decisions we make and the actions that follow.
Imagination to ImpactLink opens in a new window
This project focussed on strengthening innovation skills in the voluntary sector across Coventry and Warwickshire. Voluntary organisations provide essential support to communities where the public and private sectors may lack incentives or resources to. Although they often have to find creative ways to aid their communities, little is known about creativity in this context.
Our project utilises data from 35 interviews with local volunteers and voluntary sector leaders to uncover the barriers and facilitators of creativity in volunteering to produce evidence-based support for volunteers.