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On offer in 2017/18 are: Memory Studies; Experimental Ecologies; Habitability in the Universe; The Medical Mind in Literature and Culture; Thinking Water; and Ways of Knowing: Gender, Bodies, Power.

Congratulations on becoming Senior Fellows of the Higher Education Academy (HEA) to IATL Deputy Director Jonathan Heron (who has written an HEA blog post about it) and IATL Teaching Fellow Elena Riva, which means all of IATL’s academic staff now have an HEA fellowship.

The IATL team held a productive and enjoyable day at the Cryfield Sports Pavilion in July. Taking the opportunity of time away from the office, the team met to discuss what they enjoy about IATL's work and the challenges of working as a busy team, before focusing on the ways in which IATL can help to drive forward the University’s education strategy now and in the future.

Congratulations to Phil Gaydon, who has won an unprecedented second Warwick Award for Teaching Excellence (WATE) PGR. This represents a fitting end to his time with IATL, where he has been a great asset to the team; as announced in May, he is to be Teacher of Philosophy at St Paul’s School in London and we wish him every success in this new role.

Did you miss the exhibition in June? Head to the dedicated webpage now to explore the paintings, artworks, posters, stories, videos, websites and podcasts produced by this year's cohort of cross-faculty students for their self-devised assessment (SDA) and learn more about genetics.

Our Student as Producer grants provide an opportunity for students to lead a performance, research or collaboration project, with up to £2,000 available per project. Our Performance Festival Bursaries, of up to £500 each, support student performance projects taking place outside the University, such as at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival.

The new MSc in Humanitarian Engineering is an interdisciplinary programme which offers students the opportunity to invent, create, design, develop or improve technologies which promote the well-being of poor, marginalised, and/or under-served communities. The programme will open for applications in the autumn, for a 2018/19 start. See also: Symposium on Humanitarian Engineering, 3-4 July 2017.

'Sport, Philosophy and Practice' is a project which has explored the gaps and overlaps between philosophy and sport, asked how and where the curricular and extra-curricular intertwine, striven to adapt academic assessment to take into account embodied learning and expression, and reflected on best practice in the creation and development of interdisciplinary and physically active modules.

Congratulations to Phil Gaydon, who has been nominated for a Warwick Award for Teaching Excellence (WATE) PGR. The winners and commendees are to be announced at the 2017 Warwick Learning and Teaching Showcase on Monday 3 July.

This issue of our newsletter focusses on interdisciplinarity and is now available to view online. It features an item on interdisciplinarity itself, student perspectives on our interdisciplinary modules, an item on wellbeing and study at Warwick, information on our new modules, and the item ‘Students as Leaders: A Campus of Ideas’.