The WCN is featured in the Spring edition of Education Choices Magazine, published this month. Read all about the outreach work of the Department on page 62.

Bobby Smith has published his monograph Theatre and Global Development: Performing Partnerships, which is available here: https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-031-55725-5

Working with Publishers - This event is now FULLY BOOKED. If you would like to be added to the wait list please contact Sue.

We will also be holding another workshop on Wednesday 11th June 2025 and booking for this will be open in February/March 2025.

Wednesday 15^th January 2025 – Scarman House 10:00 – 16:00

• Do you have a plan for an edited volume or monograph?
Would you like to find out how to produce a convincing book proposal?
This workshop provides an opportunity to write a book proposal in a supportive & friendly atmosphere.
Expert advice will be available from publishers Routledge (Warwick Series in the Humanities), Palgrave Macmillan, and from HRC Committee Members.

• Open to any postgraduate and early-stage researcher in the Arts Faculty and Philosophy: you do not have to have an actual book proposal in mind that you would like to work on.

• Please contact Sue Rae (S.Rae@warwick.ac.uk), HRC Administrator to express interest in attending: limited places available.
Deadline: Wednesday 4^th December 2024 - NOW FULLY BOOKED

• Sponsored by Research England Enhancing Research Culture Fund.
Lunch & refreshments provided during the day.

Working with Publishers - A Workshop for PGRs and ECRs (warwick.ac.uk)

Lead authors: Pietari Kääpä (Warwick) and Hunter Vaughan (Emerson College/Cambridge)

Co-authors: Norma Cuadros (Warwick), Kate Moffat (Warwick) and Vanessa Zarm (UCL)

The Greening European Film Policy report is available for download from the Global Green Media Network website: https://www.globalgreenmedianetwork.org/reports

This report examines European film, television, and streaming industry sustainability policies, management, financing, and production at local, state, and EU levels. It explores policy support for institutionalizing these practices and offers solutions to fill policy gaps.

Produced in collaboration with Green Eyes (Hungary), Ecomuvi (Italy), Film London (UK), Screen Greening (Ireland), and Neptune Environmental (UK), the report aims to make green film production an active agent for positive transformation in the industry. Addressing funding, production, and reportage phases, the report provides three key recommendations.

1. Minimum Standards:

Establish standardised sustainability expectations and norms, from development-stage planning to on-set baselines, for both publicly-financed and commercial productions.

2. Finance

Adopt mandatory financial investment schemes for all productions, including incoming mobile productions and international co-productions, to link financial incentives with verifiable reductions in environmental impact.

3. Auditing

Introduce third-party auditing and certification focused on exceeding minimum standards, directly tied to financial incentivisation.

Please contact Pietari Kaapa (P.Kaapa@warwick.ac.uk) or Hunter Vaughan (hunter.vaughan@emerson.edu) with any questions.

An article on “Quali-quanti visual methods and political bots: A cross-platform study of pro- & anti- bolsobots” has just been published in the special issue "Methods in Visual Politics and Protest" of the Journal of Digital Social Research, co-authored by Janna Joceli Omena, Thais Lobo, Giulia Tucci, Elias Bitencourt, Emillie de Keulenaar, Francisco W. Kerche, Jason Chao, Marius Liedtke, Mengying Li, Maria Luiza Paschoal, and Ilya Lavrov.