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Monday 16th March, 15:00-17:30
Panorama, Rootes Building

Join the launch of the Warwick India Network and help shape our institutional engagement with India:

• Hear from the University’s senior leaders and reflect on what is, and should be, Warwick’s distinctive approach to engaging with India.
   
• Learn about many inspiring and impactful projects that our researchers are undertaking in collaboration with partners in India.
   
• Find out more about the Warwick India Network, and how it will connect colleagues across the institution, and facilitate collaborations with partners in India.
   
• Sign up to the Warwick India Network mailing list to receive our news and participate in future India opportunities and events.

Dear Colleagues,

From 9th to 13th March, WIE are delighted to be hosting Professors Jo WinningLink opens in a new window and Catherine MillsLink opens in a new window (Arts, Monash University) for a week-long residency and programme of events. Supported by the Monash Warwick Alliance Research Activation Fund, this week-long programme is designed to draw together the faculties Arts and Social Sciences at both Monash and Warwick to explore the nature and value of public engagement at the two institutions and use this as a basis for new collaborations, new research, new teaching and to equip both universities to better articulate the value of the so-called H.A.S.S. family of disciplines as they intersect with engagement practices.

Alongside larger networking events, the programme will involve two open door, drop-in sessions to allow Warwick staff to consult informally with our Monash guests about future projects, collaborations or simply to explore. Non appointments necessary, just turn up. The sessions will run at:

    Tues 10 March, Arts 2:30 – 3:30 pm (FAB1.38)

    Wed 11 March Social Sciences 2:30 pm – 3:30pm (Social Sciences, B1.36).

Although the sessions might appear to be faculty specific, colleagues from either session can drop in to either.

Please contact Dr James Hodkinson j.r.hodkinson@warwick.ac.uk or Dr Georgiana Mihut Georgiana.Mihut@warwick.ac.uk for further details.

All very best wishes,

James Hodkinson

Warwick innovations have some key upcoming opportunities;

 Arts and Social Sciences Innovation: Scaling and sustaining your Impact

 Wednesday 11 March 2026 – Oculus Room 1.07

12.00-1.30pm: Seminar (lunch included)

2-4pm: Workshop

Further details and registration: https://warwick.ac.uk/services/innovations/commercialise/shape/training/shapeinnovation/

Do you want to use your research to make a real difference to people’s lives? Are you interested in discovering innovative approaches to increase the scale and sustainability of your impact?

This training, led by Dr Mark Mann, a specialist in research-based social innovation, will explore a range of pathways to impact for researchers in Arts and Social Sciences. It will consider how activities such as policy engagement, community engagement and partnerships could be scaled up through commercial routes like social ventures.

The training will be split into two sessions. Participants can attend either or both parts, depending on their interest:

12.00-1.30pm: Seminar

This session will explore a range of possibilities for knowledge exchange for research in Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences disciplines and think about the best ways to build sustainable pathways to impact, including looking at how to build research-based products and services that can create real change for your partners.

2.00-4.00pm: Workshop

In this interactive workshop, participants will spend time planning how you could turn your idea into a product or service to increase the impact of your research. You will be supported by the trainers to work on:

• Defining the current stage you are at, including key research outputs, current ideas, and any activities that have already taken place
• Mapping the potential customers, users and beneficiaries for your project
• Articulating the benefits of your idea for the user groups

This event is organised by Warwick Innovations. If you have any questions, please contact: emma.roberts.1@warwick.ac.uk

Make a Virtual Reality exhibition using our Meta Quest headsets. 

Working with Clare Rowan and students from Classics, we created a virtual reality exhibition of Roman coins. This was experienced by over 30 participants as part of a Money and Medals Network training day for museum curators. Detailed, enlarged 3D models of seven coins were displayed for close-up examination, along with explanatory texts with audio narration, and an introductory video. A second activity allowed participants to work together in holding, examining, and annotating 3D coins.

The platform we use for this makes it easy to do. Collect the 3D objects (scanned in and uploaded to Sketchfab). Write the texts as web pages. Convert to audio narration. Create a video. Arrange in the virtual space. Copy to multiple headsets (we have 8). The exhibition can then be "popped-up" anywhere, making it easy to run anytime, anyplace.

Exhibitions can also be accessed through phones and tablets.

Have you got an idea for an exhibition?

We can help staff and students to make and run one.

Watch this demo videoLink opens in a new window.

Read the full reportLink opens in a new window on how the exhibition was created.

Contact Robert if you want to find out more.

We will be scheduling a DAHL workshop on this for the summer term.

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