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Nadine Holdsworth is delighted to announce the launch of the French version of the Understanding Homelessness: creative toolkit that has been developed with La Mie de Pain, the largest organisation supporting those experiencing homelessness and precarious housing in Paris. Many thanks to my collaborators Evane Rocheteau, Sky Herington and Bonny Herington. Can't wait to see how this resource will be used to develop understanding of this complex issue and challenge negative stereotypes. Thanks to the Arts and Humanities Impact Fund for making this possible.

Film and Television Studies at the University of Warwick are delighted to be partnering with the Pod on a new collaborative research project: ‘Using Film to Affect Change: Mental Health, Social Advocacy and the Moving Image’.

In December's Material Musings, Chris Parr discusses the origins and significance of certain Egyptian obelisks in Rome, in an article titled: 'Points in Time: The Long Shadow of the Montecitorio Obelisk'.

You can read it here.

DAS KAPITAL vI READING GROUP - Every other Monday, 5pm-6pm. FAB5.49 (English common room/Student hub). Wine.

Contact: Kishan.Katira@warwick.ac.uk

Have you read Das Kapital yet? If you write about Marxism, why not go to the source? Do not let others read it for you. As the haiku master Bashō Matsuo says, “to learn about pine trees, go to the pine tree; to learn of the bamboo, study bamboo”. Reading never more than 25 pages a week, we will meet once a fortnight during term time, and together get through Das Kapital Volume I. The text is free: https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/download/pdf/Capital-Volume-I.pdf 

Term 3 (Year 2025-26)

- Week 2 – Prefaces, and Chapter 1: ‘Commodities’.

- Week 4 – Chapter 2: ‘Exchange’, and Chapter 3: ‘Money, Or the Circulation of Commodities’.

- Week 6 – Chapter 4: ‘The General Formula for Capital’, Chapter 5: ‘Contradictions in the General Formula of Capital’, and Chapter 6: ‘The Buying and Selling of Labour-Power’.

- Week 8 – Chapter 7: ‘The Labour-Process and the Process of Producing Surplus-Value’, Chapter 8: ‘Constant Capital and Variable Capital’, and Chapter 9: ‘The Rate of Surplus-Value’.

- Week 10 – Chapter 10: ‘The Working Day’, Sections 1-5.

Read the advertisement for the project beginning in October 2026-Interrogating British South Asian Culture in Non-Fiction Films and Television, 1960s-1980s- here.

It is with great sadness that the Department of History announce the death of former head of Department Jack Scarisbrick.

Autumn School for Postgraduate Students and Early Career Researchers

Venice, 30 September – 4 October 2024

The School for Cross-faculty Studies at the University of Warwick is proud to be part of a diverse and inclusive community of staff and students. Our community includes many neurodivergent individuals across the spectrum, whose different perspectives, strengths, and ways of thinking enrich our learning environment and strengthen the collaborative work we do. To mark Neurodiversity Celebration Week, we spoke to one of these neurodivergent community members Ruhi - a first year GSD and Life Sciences student - about living with autism, and how the Higher Education sector still has a way to go to support neurodivergent individuals.

Click here to read Ruhi's story

Our Liberal Arts programme equips students with the essential skills valued by employers across diverse industries, as demonstrated by the wide range of careers our graduates pursue. Frances joined our first ever cohort of Liberal Arts students in 2016, and her final dissertation on improving sustainability in healthcare helped towards securing her role as a Net Zero Strategy Analyst for NHS England. We caught up with Frances to recount more of her experiences as an undergraduate, and how she believes a 2,000-year-old discipline like Liberal Arts is still relevant for helping students develop skills sought out by modern employers.

Click here to read Frances' story

What is it like to work in the cultural and creative sectors in Europe today? And what does it take to make such careers more sustainable? These are the questions explored in the book Creative and Cultural Work in Europe, edited by Bård Kleppe (Telemark Research Institute, Norway) Jaka Primorac (Institute for Development and International Relations, Croatia), Miikka Pyykkönen (University of Jyväskylä, Finland), and the Centre's David Wright - and with chapters from Heidi Ashton and Chris Bilton.

The Centre for the Study of the Renaissance here at the University of Warwick, is absolutely thrilled to celebrate Dr. Eva Van Kemenade, who successfully defended her viva a couple of weeks ago! Eva’s commitment, perseverance and passion have led her to this incredible milestone, and we’re so proud to now call her Dr. Van Kemenade. Congratulations, Eva — what an achievement!

During a year of research leave, Prof. Beat Kümin has investigated the phenomenon of depositing chronicles and objects into tower spheres on top of prominent buildings like churches, town halls and fortifications. Documented from the Middle Ages to the present, seemingly only in and around territories of the erstwhile Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation, the custom provides fascinating insights into how local societies saw themselves and what they wished to pass on to successive generations. The project, supported by the German Gerda Henkel Foundation, has so far identified over 1600 sites and thousands of separate deposits (at one Zurich church, there were no fewer than 20 between 1505 and 1996). The funder has just released a video series of six episodes (accessible in both English and German) documenting field work in Switzerland in autumn 2003.

[English Trailer] [Episodes] [Project Homepage]

Diversity in STEM is a set of GCSE Biology, Chemistry, and Physics resources that are designed to fit into existing lessons.

All the resources are curriculum-aligned and provide a simple, effective, and engaging way to highlight diversity in the STEM classroom.

There is an interactive website—Diversity in STEM: The Challenge—to get started: Diversity in STEM: The Challenge Interactive Website

As well as downloadable slides and lesson plans from both the website and the TES teachers’ resource portal: Diversity in STEM Slides and Lesson Plans

All resources are free to download, use and adapt. 

 They were developed by Dr James Poskett at the University of Warwick with funding from the History Department and the British Academy.

The EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training in Diversity in Data Visualization (Diverse CDT) is a pioneering, fully funded four-year PhD programme jointly delivered by City St George’s, University of London and the University of Warwick.

Applications for PhD studentships with Diverse CDT are now open for 2026 entry.

We have rolling deadlines across several months and the first deadline for submitting an application is 4pm, GMT on 30th January 2026.

Further details here: https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/cross_fac/cim/apply-to-study/phd-programmes/diverse-cdt/