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Volume 5, Issue 2 was published 29 October 2012:

• Editorial: The Undergraduate Reinvention of the Publishing Industry
• Encouraging Female Entrepreneurship: Lessons from Colombian Women
• Shrill Noise: The Perception of Women during the Great War Anti-conscription Movement in Melbourne, Australia
• A Review of Relay Auto-tuning Methods for the Tuning of PID-type Controllers
• Factors Affecting Peace Levels in Afghanistan
• Examining the Mathematical Sub-symbolic Registers Using Cryptology
• 'Devil's Ordinaries' and 'Chapels of Ease': a Comparative Study of London's Coffeehouses and Taverns 1660-1720

14 November 2012 | 12-3pm | Reinvention Centre at Westwood

Assessment: what currently works and what needs changing? IATL will be hosting this event, which aims to foster debate about the different ways of assessing students' achievements effectively. Contributions will come from colleagues across the disciplines, from Theatre Studies, Law, Warwick Medical School, History, Life Sciences and WMG.

To register contact Amy Clarke: Amy dot Clarke at warwick dot ac dot uk.

IATL has moved!

We are now situated on the first floor (west wing) of Senate House in a newly refurbished space.

From 17 October 2012 the IATL team will be hosting an open house with coffee and biscuits every Wednesday from 12-1pm; all members of the University are welcome to drop in. Come and find out more about us and what we do; chat to the team and to other staff and students about teaching and learning matters; learn more about our funding opportunities and about how IATL can help you or your department.

The British Conference of Undergraduate Research (BCUR) 2012 Special Issue was published 30 July 2012:

Editorial

• Connecting Research Cultures

Papers

• Lost in Space: Crisis of the Nation and Homeland in Contemporary Arabic Fiction
• Prevalence of Endoparasites in the European Hedgehog (Erinaceus Europaeus) within Regions of the East Midlands
• Youth Services: Listening to Youth?
• Development of Platinum-free Dye-sensitized Solar Cells
• 'I know not whether she be man or woman' (Shirley, 1986: IV.ii.93): Subversive Presentations of Women in James Shirley’s Revenge Tragedies
• Student and Staff Perceptions of Decision-making in the changing Higher Education Context
• 'The Scottish hate us more than the Muslims...': The North/South Divide? A Comparative Analysis of the Agenda, Activities and Development of the English and Scottish Defence Leagues
• Remote Electrification for Sustainable Development in African Communities
• An Investigation into Students’ and Employees’ Attitudes Towards the Provision of a Healthy Foodscape within a University Setting
• Is the Conservation of the United Kingdom’s Built Heritage Sustainable?
• The Current Status of Platorchestia Platensis in the United Kingdom

IATL, with Estates and Student Careers and Skills, is hosting an exciting new programme called Green Steps delivering environmental training and internships. Green Steps was founded at Monash University and is now in its twelfth year. Warwick is piloting the programme in 2012 to see how it can be adapted to the UK and IATL will be leading on a strand of activity focusiing on education for sustainability. This is the first example of how Warwick undergraduates are benefitting from the Warwick/Monash Alliance. More information

The Summer 2012 issue has a focus on collaboration. You can read it (or any previous newsletter) on the Newsletters page.

Dr Nick Monk, IATL's Assistant Professor for Curriculum Development , led a workshop at the recent Higher Education Academy Pedagogies of Hope and Opportunity conference in Glasgow demonstrating Open-space Learning techniques developed at Warwick. The workshop ‘Teaching for Creativity’ received the highest average feedback - an impressive 29.5 out of 30 and Nick was awarded the ‘prize’ for the best conference paper. As Nick says, we must be doing something right!

‘Open’, ‘flexible’, ‘light’, ‘user-friendly’. These were the words that occurred most frequently in IATL’s research prior to the re-design of the Ramphal Building’s small teaching spaces, and which informed our thinking before and after our successful joint bid with Space Management to the Capital Investment Fund. The refurbishment work will start in Week 6 of the Summer Term and should be completed by the week before the beginning of the new academic year. News about progress will be posted at http://www.warwick.ac.uk/go/ramphalrefurb.

By the start of the new academic year IATL will have a new home in Coventry House, soon to be renamed Senate House. This will bring us into the centre of the campus where we can be in more direct contact with students and staff. IATL will continue to administer open learning spaces across the campus including some in Millburn House. A date for our move from Millburn House hasn't yet been set but we plan to be installed by mid September.

11th June 2012
Helen Martin Studio, Warwick Arts Centre

"Play is the only way the highest intelligence of humankind can unfold."

IATL’s day on ‘play’ in teaching and learning is the first in series of ‘stimulus’ sessions that will bring together practitioners and academics, from inside and outside Warwick, to inspire innovation in teaching and learning. The quote from Joseph Chilton Pearce (above) defines our approach to the day.

A series of interactive sessions will begin to suggest ways we might use play to develop and stimulate the intelligence and capacity for learning of our students.

The day begins with a 2-hour workshop at 11am run by Sandbox entitled ‘LEGO Serious Play™’, and will conclude at 6.30pm with An Ecology of Mind, a film about Gregory Bateson, the great theorist of ‘play’, . In the interim there will be 45-minute sessions from writer and broadcaster A. L. Kennedy; David Morley, poet and Director of Warwick’s Writing Programme; Jonothan Neelands of the Institute of Education and Warwick Business School; Nick Roberts, cellist with the Coull Quartet; and Jonathan Heron, Theatre Director and IATL’s Teaching Fellow.

As well as acting as a stimulus, the day will offer opportunities for participants to share their own ideas and practices, and to develop proposals for ways to make such work more visible –the digital aspects of play, for example, might be a fruitful focus, for a future event.

**Fully booked**