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The Undergraduate Research Support Scheme enables Warwick undergraduate students to carry out an interdisciplinary summer research or public engagement project.

The scheme is open to all undergraduate students from any year or course, with the exception of exchange students.

The URSS Showcase event will take place on Wednesday 16th November between 1-4pm in the Panorama room in the Rootes Building.

The event will provide an opportunity for you to meet this year's participants and find out more about their summer research projects. There will also be some live presentations. If you are considering applying for the scheme in 2023 or are just interested in research come and join us. Everyone is welcome.

URSS Showcase event programme is available at URSS Showcase 2022 ProgrammeLink opens in a new windowLink opens in a new window

You can view some of last year's projects via the online showcase site at URSS Showcase 2021Link opens in a new windowLink opens in a new windowLink opens in a new window.

Abstract:

The British REF with its Impact Agenda has changed the way in which academics think, talk and write about their research. Impact, alongside research and teaching has become yet another area in which a scholar must excel to succeed in academia.

The case study method of impact evaluation, first introduced with REF 2014 and used again in REF 2021, was also adapted in national evaluation exercises carried out in Norway (2017) and Poland (2021).

It is curious that implementing similar frameworks of research impact evaluation rendered very different effects in the three countries, particularly in terms of academic discourse.

In my talk I compare the features of the impact case studies submitted by scholars in the three countries linking them to broader qualities of the evaluation systems and academic cultures in which they were produced. In my analysis I draw mainly on linguistic pragmatics (genre analysis) and foucauldian governmentality theory.

Bio: Marta Natalia Wróblewska is Assistant Professor in the English Studies Department at SWPS University of Social Sciences and Humanities in Warsaw, Poland. She holds a PhD in Applied Linguistics from Warwick University (2019). In recent years she has conducted studies on research impact evaluation in the UK, Norway and Poland. As well as working at one of the Polish funding agencies – National Centre for Research and Development she has advised several Polish universities in the run-up to the national evaluation. She is interested in the mutual relationship between discourse and policy-making. Her recent publication is Wróblewska, M.N. Research impact evaluation and academic discourse. Humanit Soc Sci Commun 8,58 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1057/s41599-021-00727-8

This Translation and Transcultural Studies seminar takes place on MS Teams. We would kindly ask you to register in advance by completing the form below. You will be provided with the relevant link Teams invite prior to the talk.

Dr Ruth Kircher (Fryske Akademy): Language attitudes and ideologies amongst new speakers of West Frisian

registration form closes on Tuesday 15 November at midday (UK time)

Presented by Kulbir Shergill and Lisa Field (Social Inclusion). This should be of particular interest to those serving on or planning to serve on hiring committees in the coming year.

Those interested may sign up here.

speaker: William Tullett (Anglia Ruskin), Smelling the Past: Why the Humanities Should be Less Sniffy and more Nose-Wise

chair: Sophie Mann

discussant: Aysu Dincer Hadjianastasis

Week 7, Wed 16 November (joint event with the Centre for Renaissance and Reformation Studies, University of Toronto): 'A Roundtable on the Global Renaissance'. Speakers: Prof. Nicholas Terpstra, Dr Laura Ingallinella (both University of Toronto), Prof. David Lines, Dr Natalya Din-Kariuki and Dr Bryan Brazeau (all from Warwick). Registration via the webpage.

(joint event with the Centre for Renaissance and Reformation Studies, University of Toronto)

'A Roundtable on the Global Renaissance'.

Speakers: Prof. Nicholas Terpstra, Prof. Ethan Matt Kavaler (both Uni of Toronto), Dr Natalya Din-Kariuki, Prof. David Lines.