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Monday 31 October 2016, 09:00-13:00 | R1.13, Ramphal Building

This Sustainable Cities GRP event will celebrate UN World Cities Day by showcasing cities research at Warwick. It will offer the opportunity to advance university-wide relationships and to learn more about research opportunities linked to cities. The IATL-funded project 'Paving the way towards a Warwick Humanitarian Engineering Centre' will feature.

On 27 and 28 September, the 4th annual ICUR connected over 500 students, through 60 international sessions, on 5 continents. The event – organised by IATL staff in collaboration with colleagues in Australia, Japan, Singapore, the US, the UK, South Africa and Malaysia – saw 325 students from all disciplines presenting their research via video conference links to their peers around the world.

Due to the high number of excellent applications we received in May, the available funding for the October round is lower than usual and so we are restricting funding awards to Pedagogic Interventions (up to £1,000 each). We hope to have more funding available for the next round, in May 2017.

Wednesday 16 November 2016 | University of Warwick

This interactive, interdisciplinary workshop will tell the story of how a non-Euclidean geometry was created in the 19^th century, "out of nothing", explore how it influenced the arts, literature and fiction, and how it is the basis of some fundamental discoveries in physics, such as relativity. No prior knowledge of mathematics is required.

We invite submissions to these two forthcoming issues:
• Volume 10 Issue 1 (to be published April 2017), from all undergraduates;
• BLASTER Special Issue (to be published July 2017), from undergraduates at Warwick and selected European universities.

IATL invites you to explore this new teaching and learning resource, which contains ideas to help you play and be playful - at work, at home, in meetings, in the classroom, when planning events. Arising from work on The Dark Would, the resource is inclusive: it's intended for all members of the university community.

Warwick members of the BLASTER (Best Liberal Arts and Science Teaching Expanded and Reinforced) project, funded through Erasmus +, will be at Leuphana University, Germany, in October, where staff and student experts from European partner institutions will showcase best practice in undergraduate research, and form small research teams to continue the exploration of innovations in this area.

Dr Jonathan Heron, IATL Principal Teaching Fellow, has just returned from his trip, where he worked with drama students on Weird Sisters, his own adaptation of Shakespeare's Macbeth, over the course of three weeks. Jonathan also visited our partner university Monash, in Melbourne Australia, as part of his ongoing collaborative project with their Chemistry and Theatre departments.

Fridays 4, 11, 25 November & 2 December 2016, 16:00-19:00 | University of Warwick

This free workshop series, supported through an IATL-funded project, aims to give students hands on experience of analysing large health related datasets in R. Students will learn how to procure data using online sources such as Google and data.gov, understand how to choose the appropriate statistical methods and avoid common statistical pitfalls.

Friday 23 September 2016, 10:00-16:30 | Bute Park Education Centre, Cardiff

Participants will be encouraged to consider theories behind evaluation methods and share their experiences of putting them into practice. Open to people from outdoor learning organisations, including those involved in environmental management.