Two academics from Warwick’s newly established Design division recently delivered a range of engaging activities for an Esports camp aimed at young aspiring game designers.

Over the Easter holidays, Dr Edward Loveman and Dr James MacKrill were involved in a holiday camp for young attendees aged 4-16, who were able to experience the process of designing games based around sustainability and environmental awareness issues.

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A member of our Global Sustainable Development department recently presented their research at the first ever Resonate Festival of Science and Technology in Leamington Spa.

Dr Camilla Audia - Assistant Professor of GSD who leads our Health and Sustainable Development and Addressing Disasters for Sustainable. Development undergraduate modules - presented her research on indigenous communities in Burkina Faso at the festival’s first event, which focused on projects related to weather.

Last year, GSD was delighted to establish an exciting collaboration at postgraduate level with the programmes in International Development Studies (MAIDS-GRID) at Chulalongkorn University in Bangkok, the highest-ranked university in Thailand. This partnership was conceptualised under the Thai-UK World-class University Consortium, funded by the British Council, which aims to bring together Thai and UK institutions for internationalisation and to enhance teaching and research through knowledge exchange and sharing.

MAIDS-GRID at Chulalongkorn and GSD at Warwick both offer international postgraduate programmes in sustainable development and development studies, which share several similarities, including a transdisciplinary teaching and research philosophy, an international student body and comparable programme size.

Congratulations to our students for securing funding for research projects over the summer!

The Undergraduate Research Support Scheme (URSS) enables undergraduate students to carry out an interdisciplinary summer research public engagement project. The scheme is open to any undergraduate student at Warwick and research can be completed in the UK or abroad.

This year, one student from the Liberal Arts Department and five students from the Global Sustainable Development (GSD) Department have successfully secured a URSS bursary. Their work will be recognised at the URSS Showcase 2022 on Wednesday 16 November between 1-4 pm in the Panorama room in the Rootes Building - all are welcome to attend!

Find out about our students' summer research projects.

On the 14th and 15th April 2022, Dr Bryan Brazeau (Associate Professor, Liberal Arts) participated in Processing the Pandemic I: Loss at the Newberry Library in Chicago, Illinois. Bryan was one of the three co-organisers of the conference, along with Dr Rose Miron (Director of the D'Arcy McNickle Center for American Indian and Indigenous Studies at the Newberry Library) and Dr Christopher Fletcher (Assistant Director of the Newberry Library's Center for Renaissance Studies).

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To celebrate Coventry’s year as UK City of Culture, the University of Warwick – a principal partner of City of Culture – has been hosting The Resonate Festival. Next week marks the grand finale of the festival: three days of special events taking place on campus from 19-21 April 2022.

Dr Kirsten Harris, Associate Professor in Liberal Arts, will be contributing to the festival on Thursday evening, sharing her thoughts on the disputed concept of freedom.