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Led by Dr Thomas Greenaway, Amy Stickles and Dr Mujthaba Ahtamad, WIHEA’s (Open) Designing and Assessing Groupwork Learning Circle has created a new interactive guide to support staff with designing assessed group work tasks. The guide offers design principles, examples and links to relevant academic literature to enable staff to design group work to achieve the outcome that you desire for your students. To view the guide or if you are interested in finding out more about the Learning Circle's plans Link opens in a new windowfor the next academic year, please do visit their web page.

Led by Sam Grierson (EPQ) and supported through funding from both WIHEA and the Inclusive Education Programme, over the last two years, key members of WIHEA’s Inclusive STEM Assessments Learning Circle (open subgroup) have been exploring inclusive assessment in STEM disciplines, with a view to identifying sector-wide evidence, issues, and effective practices. Read the final report and contribute your inclusive assessment practice to the Showcase.

This new centre aims to connect individuals from across the sector who have an interest in supporting Belonging in Higher Education. Find out more and express your interest - if you would like to help shape this new initiative.

Selected by the WIHEA Advisory Group during a competitive annual selection process consisting of application and nomination in July 2025, the new 25 staff and 9 student Fellows will join WIHEA’s collaborative community on 1 September.

WIHEA fellows showcased a range of learning circles and small fund projects at the education conference this year. We were proud to see the impact and scope of our fellows' work that continues to push boundaries for teaching, learning and belonging at Warwick.

Fellows from the Warwick International Higher Education Academy (WIHEA) and the Leeds Institute for Teaching Excellence (LITE) came together for a vibrant, engaging, and collaborative event that celebrated educational innovation, shared practice, and built new bridges across institutions on Thursday 12th June.

We are incredibly proud to announce that our small team have not only been nominated for but have won a WOW award in May.

The call is now open for:

• Strategic Project Expressions of Intent (EoI) - due midday Friday 23 May (12pm UK time)
• Seed Fund Applications - due midday Monday 30 June (12pm UK time)

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All staff and students are invited to an information session on 2nd June to explore opportunities to join WIHEA as a Fellow or Member and find out how you can contribute to educational excellence at Warwick.

We are delighted to announce our annual call for Fellowship nominations opened on Monday, 19 May. You can now help support an application for this years fellowship cohort as a current fellow or apply for a fellowship yourself. Staff Fellowships: 3-year term, Student Fellowships: 1-year term (1 Sept 2025 – 31 Aug 2026)