Congratulations to Liberal Arts student Ceara Webster, one of this year’s winners of Warwick’s Outstanding Student Contribution Awards (OSCAs).

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Dr Stéphanie Panichelli-Batalla, Head of the School for Cross-faculty Studies, was recently interviewed by the Oral History Review about the role of laughter in oral history interviews. You can read the interview here. This interview is directly linked to Stéphanie's paper, "Laughter in Oral Histories of Displacement: 'One Goes on a Mission to Solve Their Problems'", published in the Oral History Review.

Both the interview and paper are based on a wider project started by Stéphanie in 2014, entitled “Life Stories of Cuban internationalist healthcare professionals”. The project aims to fill the gap in the existing literature on Cuban internationalist healthcare professionals, allowing the professionals themselves to "share their stories and help us gain a better understanding of what it meant for them to join these missions, how the work impacted their lives and those of their families, and the challenges they faced as Cuban internationalists."

You might also be interested in the following news items on Stéphanie's recent work:

• Press interviews with Dr Stéphanie Panichelli-Batalla on Cuban international healthcare
• Article published for The Conversation on Cuban internationalism by Dr Stéphanie Panichelli-Batalla

Our Liberal Arts third- and fourth- year finalists were awarded their degrees on Wednesday 22 July 2020.

This has been a year like no other and unfortunately, we have not been able to celebrate our students' successes on campus in the usual way. However, we were keen to congratulate our students by holding a virtual graduation celebration that took place on Thursday 30 July 2020. During the celebration, our staff and students shared stories and anecdotes from over the years, and the following prizes were awarded:

• The Liberal Arts Achievement Prize: Lily Rose Fitzmaurice
• The Dissertation Prize: Hannah Davenport
• The Cathia Jenainati Prize: Ceara Webster

Congratulations Lily, Hannah, and Ceara - your hard work has not gone unnoticed and we enjoyed being able to share your brilliant achievements in this way.

We are incredibly proud of our Class of 2020 for all of their successes and for overcoming challenges throughout their time at Warwick. We hope to be able to congratulate our graduates on campus when it is safe to do so and give them the graduation ceremony that they very much deserve.

Virtual yearbook

Our staff and students have been adding messages to our Liberal Arts Virtual Yearbook 2020 which you can view here.

Staying in touch

Liberal Arts graduates, please remember to register on warwickgrad.net so that we can keep in touch with you. In addition, you can:

• Join our Liberal Arts Alumni LinkedIn Group
• Email us at liberalarts@warwick.ac.uk (or one of your tutors) to let us know how you're getting on

Over the past academic year, Liberal Arts students have been working with a local primary school as part of the University’s Bright Stars Programme.