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12 - 2pm, Thursday 28 April | Students' Union Atrium

Explore the IATL modules available for 2016/17 (to undergraduates in years 2, 3 or 4 with home department approval), with many of the convenors available to answer questions. New modules include: Local and Global Shakespeares; Sport, Philosophy and Practice; Genetics: Science and Society; and Laughter: A Transdisciplinary Approach.

06 May 2016 (10:00 - 17:00)

This interdisciplinary, gymnasium event invites you to participate in spaces and activities designed for intellectual and physical engagement. Experts from the university and local community will lead participants in theoretical and practical explorations of ideas surrounding spaces, practices, philosophies, and pedagogies of sport training and exercise.

3 July - 11 August 2016 | Queen Mary University of London

This unique five-and-a-half week programme offers conservatoire-style theatre training combined with academic content delivered by experts in Shakespearean theatre and performance. It offers you the chance to develop a deeper understanding of Shakespeare's plays through a parallel approach of performance practice and academic study.

Recognise someone who has made a difference in teaching and learning at Warwick by nominating them for a Teaching Excellence Award. Members of staff and postgraduates who teach are eligible to be nominated. Make your nomination by Wednesday 16 March 2016.

The latest post is comprised of three parts, featuring the reflections of IATL module convenor and funding recipient Phil Gaydon and two final-year undergraduates in English, Dominc Nah and Laura Primiceri, on their experiences at recent faculty teaching and learning showcases and working on the IATL-funded project 'The Warwick Handbook of Innovative Teaching'.

Monday 23 May 2016 | Humanities Studio | free admission

This innovative and interdisciplinary event is open to all Warwick staff and students and explores the life and the discoveries of Rosalind Franklin – chemist, biologist and X-ray crystallographer – whose photograph 51 was the key to unlocking the mystery of the structure of DNA.

The call for abstracts is now open for the fourth annual International Conference of Undergraduate Research (ICUR) which will be held on 27-28 September 2016. Please visit icurportal.com for further information and to submit your 250 word abstract. The deadline for applications is Tuesday 15 May 2016

10 March 2016 | Humanities Studio | free admission

This IATL funded Student as Producer Performance project is a collaboratively devised piece of theatre about growing up in an age of optimism and coming of age in an age of pessimism, it’s about an obsession with the apocalypse and the unsustainability of capitalism.

04 & 05 March 2016 | Humanities Studio | free admission

Who gets to occupy theatrical space? What stories do we tell in these spaces and who gets to tell them? This IATL funded Student as Producer performance piece attempts to examine the construction of theatrical spaces and the room black women are afforded in these spaces.

14 & 15 March 2016 | Humanities Studio | free admission

This IATL funded Student as Producer performance led by Laura Mason (undergraduate student, School of Theatre Studies) explores issues of home, family history, secrets and compromise. The plot revolves around one house, three moments in time and one secret that unites them all.