News & events

The EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training in Diversity in Data Visualization (Diverse CDT) is a pioneering, fully funded four-year PhD programme jointly delivered by City St George’s, University of London and the University of Warwick.

Applications for PhD studentships with Diverse CDT are now open for 2026 entry.

We have rolling deadlines across several months and the first deadline for submitting an application is 4pm, GMT on 30th January 2026.

Further details here: https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/cross_fac/cim/apply-to-study/phd-programmes/diverse-cdt/

Professor Cagatay Turkay's paper "LEVA: Using Large Language Models to Enhance Visual Analytics" has been named Runner-up for the 2025 Best Paper Award in the "Visualization and Visual Analytics" area of IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (TVCG).

The University of Warwick Methods Hub officially launched on 25 June 2026, bringing together 41 attendees online for talks, a panel and breakout discussions exploring how methods can meet the world. A new post-event briefing captures the event’s key discussions and next steps.

Former CIM PhD student Matías Valderrama Barragán has received the Best Methods Paper Award at the 2026 Social Media & Society Conference in Glasgow for research examining the development and use of Meta’s “Meaningful Social Interactions” metric.

The Centre for Interdisciplinary Methodologies (CIM) is very happy to announce that Professor Celia Lury has been elected Fellow of the British Academy joining two other University of Warwick academics who have been recognised for their important and influential research in the humanities and social sciences.

New Paper Explores the Challenges and Opportunities of Science Communication in Populist Times

Trust in elite institutions is on the wane globally. This piece, published as a comment in a Nature issue on public trust in science, explores the ways in which institutions can collaborate with the public to honestly, humbly and proactively co-develop this trust.