News

Maurice Beseng has published a new open-access article in the leading peer-reviewed journal Marine Policy, which is published by Elsevier.

The article, titled ‘Managing abandoned, lost, or otherwise discarded fishing gear in Cameroon’s marine small-scale fisheries: Perspective of local ecological knowledge’, explores the growing global challenge posed by abandoned, lost, or discarded fishing gear, and its contribution to multiple sustainability challenges including plastic pollution, damage to marine ecosystems, and threats to coastal livelihoods and food security.

Please click here to read more

We are delighted to announce that Professor Elena Korosteleva, Professor of International Politics and Director of the Institute of Global Sustainable Development (IGSD), has published a major new monograph: Complexity and Community in International Relations: Nurturing Resilience in Central Eurasia, with Oxford University Press.

Please click here to read more and to access promotional code to save 30% off your purchase

The School for Cross-faculty Studies welcomed Warwick staff and students to a vibrant and well-attended Work Placement Fair 2025 on campus this week.

Organised by Bodrun Nahar – the School’s Employability and Work Placements Manager - the fair showcased the breadth of placement pathways available to students across Global Sustainable Development (GSD), Design Studies, and Liberal Arts.

Please click here to read more and to delve in to some of the student presentations.

Professor Korosteleva was invited to speak at the LSE roundtable, organised by Prof. Federica Bicchi, on the future of Europe and European Foreign Policy, together Christopher Hill (LSE) and Jan Orbie (Ghent). They addressed the issues of the US's new security strategy, Russia's war in Ukraine, and Europe's place in the changing global order architecture, following the crisis of the Liberal International Order. The discussion also involved PhD and Master's students, from LSE and King's.

Professor Korosteleva was invited to private conversations with John Smith Trust Fellows in Parliament, followed by a roundtable to discuss the future of Belarus and the UK Strategy, organised conjointly by Belarus APPG and JST Foundation. It involved members of parliament, government, various think-tanks, NGOs and 10 JST fellows from Belarus, as future leaders of the programme.

Professor Korosteleva was invited to give a keynote at the Lithuanian Annual Conference on Resilience, at Vilnius University, School of International Relations on 3-5 December 2025. She based her presentation on her newly published book 'Complexity and Community in IR: Nurturing Resilience in Central Eurasia', in which she highlighted the role of communities in making alternative futures possible. Professor Korosteleva was also invited to contribute to a workshop with ECRs, along with Prof. Anders Wivel, Copenhagen University. For more info see here.

In our ‘Beyond the Classroom’ interview series, we speak to our Liberal Arts module convenors to reveal the deeper purpose and vision behind their academic modules. In our first entry to the series, we spoke to Dr William Rupp about his module Do you hear the people sing? Revolution and the Modern Musical.

Click here to read more.

Dr Uribe Botta is an environmental historian whose work is deeply interdisciplinary, bridging history, cultural studies, and the material world. He specialises in the role of plants — particularly orchids — as actors in global and colonial history.

Click here to read more.

The Head of our Liberal Arts department Dr Bryan Brazeau has now completed his tenure as departmental lead; a responsibility which he has held since 2021. He has now passed on the mantle to Dr William Rupp, who has been an Associate Professor in the Liberal Arts department for four years.

Click here to read more.