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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’.

Dr Emrah Atasoy co-authored (with Dr Matthew Leggatt from the University of Winchester) an article for Times Higher Education: “Teaching utopian and dystopian narratives in higher education.” Link: https://www.timeshighereducation.com/campus/teaching-utopian-and-dystopian-narratives-higher-education

Recent PhD graduate, Liam Rogers, launched his new book, Screening Technology, Theorizing Posthumanism, with an event at the BFI Reuben Library this week.

Dr Paula Bartley, Honorary Research Fellow, is a women’s historian and author of the new book, Trailblazers: The First Women Elected to Government, in which she uncovers remarkable stories about extraordinary women.

Trailblazers is published by Polity. A launch event was held at the Church of Saint Magnus-the-Martyr in London on 27 May 2026.

You can listen to Dr Bartley chat about the (roller coaster) rise of women in global government, the impact of war and revolution when it comes to political equality, and a notable nun in the Standard Issue podcast.

Thursday, 18 June, 11am-12.30pm, FAB6.02

This ​presentation and workshop draw on Peter's ongoing work on a film about the act of healing as a physical and non-physical gesture. He will draw on both his work of filming 'alternative' health practitioners (osteopaths, Alexander teachers...), and his own recent training in the field, making reference to how medicine, illness, and the healing arts have been represented visually across time and space. The material will be framed to be of interest not only to historians and practitioners of visual art and film, but also to anyone concerned with 'embodied inquiry'.

Ana Mendieta by Dr Bryony White

Many congratulations to Adam Agowun on successfully defending his thesis ‘Approaches to Presidential Televisual Persona Work in the French Fifth Republic, 1995–2017’. We see a beaming Adam here with his examiners (Prof Helen Drake and Dr Philippe Le Goff), his supervisors (Prof Jeremy Ahearne and Dr Jessica Wardhaugh), his friend Izzy and long-time SMLC mentor Dr Cathy Hampton.

Gender equality and inclusion are key themes in Global Sustainable Development. This reading list highlights ten books that explore gender, identity and social justice, helping students connect these issues to sustainability challenges and the GSD curriculum.

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As the School for Cross-Faculty Studies (SCFS) works to advance its Athena SWAN journey, we are actively evaluating how gender equity and inclusion shape our environment. Because inclusion requires a continuous assessment of how our policies, culture, and teaching practices impact everyday student life, student voices are essential.

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Centre researchers Heidi Ashton, Pietari Kääpä, Norma Cuadros Gonzalez and Hal Conte have contributed to two new discussion papers on Screen Green Transitions, published by the Creative Industries Policy and Evidence Centre.

Former PhD student Sergei Zotov has been awarded a BA post-doctoral fellowship award for his project, ‘Albums of Secrets in the Age of Reason’. In October, he’ll be joining the Department of History and Philosophy of Science, University of Cambridge, as a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow. His project examines seventeenth- and eighteenth-century manuscript albums combining alchemy, medicine, astrology, and magic, with a particular focus on images as tools for reasoning and experimentation. It is the first British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowship project on alchemy in the scheme’s forty-year history.  

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]

Our very own Dr. Anca Cretu has been recently appointed co-editor of the Studies in Global History of Central and Eastern Europe series, with Central European University Press. Alongside Jill Massino (University of North Carolina Charlotte), Dr. Cretu will co-edit this breakthrough series showcasing novel and cutting-edge research that explores the history of Central and Eastern Europe through a transnational and global lens. The editor team is currently accepting proposals!

More info can be found here.

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/