Featured Calls

IAS/IATL Early Career Teaching Fellowships – Deadline Approaching 

Applications have opened for two Early Career Teaching fellowships for 2022/23. The application deadline is Friday, 6 May at 12pm (UK time). 

The ECTF website has information about this year’s application process, as well as eligibility and selection criteria. A recording of the online ECTF workshop is also available. The workshop covered the purpose of the fellowships and application process and included insights from the current Fellows about applying and their experiences of the ECTF programme. 

News

Congratulations and Welcome to the April 2022 Early Career Fellow cohort who joined the IAS this week!

We are funding 15 completing Warwick doctoral candidates in the transition phase between their doctoral and independent postdoctoral research careers on our Early Career Fellowship Scheme from this April. 

Early Career Fellows receive a bursary, training to develop their academic leadership skills and support to produce career enhancing outputs from their thesis.

Congratulations to IAS Alumna Dr Clare Siviter who has been announced as a BBC Radio 3 and AHRC New Generation Thinker 2022.  

Read more about the award and Clare’s research here.  

New publication: IAS Early Career Fellow Daniel Mensah and Oyinlola Oyebodea publish ‘Evidence on Physical Activity and Sedentary Behaviour in Ghana: a Rapid Scoping Review’ 

https://doi.org/10.18697/ajfand.107.21805. 

Daniel writes: In this paper, we synthesise evidence on physical activity (PA) and sedentary behaviour of children and adults in Ghana as part of a process to develop national Food-Based Dietary Guidelines. We identified 17 relevant articles through a search of the MEDLINE database and also included the 2008 Ghana Demographic and Health Survey report. We present our results by age, gender, occupation type, rural-urban residence, and socio-economic status, comparing PA prevalence in these population subgroups with WHO recommendations for PA. The evidence suggests, among other things, that while Ghanaian adults meet WHO PA recommendations, PA is mostly accrued through active travel and active occupations. We therefore argue that Ghanaians may be at increasing risk of becoming physically inactive as occupations and transportation become increasingly mechanized and sedentary. We make recommendations for policy and further research. 

Upcoming Events

Expressing Freedom in Confinement - 5 May 2022 

IAS EUTOPIA-SIF Fellow Valérie Hayaert contributes to panel discussion with Gary Mansfield, Jessica Collier following an exhibit of artworks by incarcerated artists.

Social Choice Under Risk and Uncertainty – 9 May 

IAS Visiting Fellow Eric Danan invites you to this one-day workshop on social choice under risk and uncertainty 

Anonymity, Un-Originality, Collectivity – Contested Modes of Authorship - 20-21 May 2022

An interdisciplinary, hybrid conference on contested modes of authorship organised by IAS Early Career Fellows, Leonello Bazzurro, Melissa Pawelski, Alessandra Tafaro, and Leanne Weston View the full event details HERE 

Communities and Algorithms: Epistemological Questions for a Critical Network Science – 23rd May 2022 

IAS Associate Fellow Patrick Smith and co-organiser Nate Tkacz invite you to a one-day event at the Centre of Digital Enquiry. Please email Patrick for details patrick.smith.1@warwick.ac.uk  

Registration is now live for 'Women in World(-)Literature' - 22nd - 23rd June 2022 

Register your online or in-person attendance here for the Women in World(-)Literature conference, co-organised by Associate Fellows Roxanne Douglas and Fiona Farnsworth

Exchanges: The Interdisciplinary Research Journal 

Spring Issue 2022 – Volume 9(2) Published 

We’re delighted to announce the publication of latest issue of Exchanges, volume 9(2) on Wednesday 27th April. This is the regular spring issue of the journal and contains a range of original research articles, critical reflections and most excitingly two new conversation pieces. It also contains an article, author and keyword index for the most recent three volumes of the title, highlighting the range of work published and authors contributing to the title. You can access the issue via the links below. 

https://doi.org/10.21273/eirj.v9i2  

http://exchanges.warwick.ac.uk/  

 As always, all content in Exchanges is fully open-access at point of publication. Our thanks to all the contributors, reviewers and editors for their hard work behind the scenes in getting this issue ready. We hope to be back in a few short months with the next in our series of special issue publications too. 

Call for Papers: Authentic Interdisciplinarity 

2023 is set to be an exciting year for Exchanges, as we reach our tenth anniversary. As part of these celebrations, we’re inviting submissions for publication consideration in this October 2023 volume on the theme of authentic interdisciplinarity. This theme of this call harkens back to the founding volume of the journal, as well as offering authors the chance to reflect on the developments within interdisciplinary work over the past decade. As always, we are looking for academic papers to undergo peer-review consideration alongside shorter, editorially-reviewed pieces under our critical reflections and conversations banner.  

You can find details of this call for papers on the journal’s announcements page and inside the pages of the most recent editorial too. 

http://doi.org/10.31273/eirj.v9i2.1150  

https://exchanges.warwick.ac.uk/index.php/exchanges/announcement  

As with all Exchanges calls, the Editor-in-Chief welcomes discussions with potential authors ahead of submission, although this is not a pre-requisite for any contributions. Contact details as below. 

Readers’ Survey 

Tying in to our anniversary preparations, this issue sees the launch of our first ever readers’ survey. If you have been a casual or regular reader of Exchanges, we would welcome your insights and thoughts on the aspects of the journal you most value, alongside areas for future development. Find the details on how you can participate in this survey at: 

http://doi.org/10.31273/eirj.v9i2.1150 

Open Call for Papers 

Always, over and above our thematic and special issue calls, Exchanges welcomes submissions throughout the year by scholars in all disciplines. We especially welcome submissions from first-time or less experienced authors, under our remit as an early-career focussed researcher title. Details of this non-thematic, open call for contributions can be found here:  

https://exchanges.warwick.ac.uk/index.php/exchanges/announcement/view/35  

Exchanges Discourse: Forthcoming Episodes 

While April has been a quiet month for the Exchanges Discourse podcast, with the launch of the new issue we will shortly be featuring a number of conversations with authors from the volume. As always, we will also be including a number of informational episodes updating readers and listeners alike on the behind-the-scenes workings of the journal. You can catch up with all previous podcast episodes at Anchor.fm, Spotify, Apple Podcasts and many other popular podcasting sites: 

https://anchor.fm/exchangesias  

About the Exchanges Journal 

Exchanges is dedicated to supporting and propagating research discourse primarily, but not exclusively, from early career scholars around the globe. Framed in an interdisciplinary mode, articles are intended to be read by a broad academic audience. The journal also has a strong developmental ethos, embraced within its editorial culture and increasing authorial development outreach activities. The journal’s operations are managed by an Editor-in-Chief based at the IAS, and supported with an Editorial Board network associated with institutions comprising Warwick’s global research partners. Contact the journal at: exchangesjournal@warwick.ac.uk  

Awards

Associate Fellows 

Dr Hamidreza Arjmandi – Engineering 

Fernandes Fellows  

Dr Maryna Utkina – Sumy State University, Ukraine 

IAS Awards made to  

Prof Bobby Smith - History 

Dr Michelle McGillion - Psychology 

 
Visiting Fellowship nominations by

Prof Franklyn Lisk - PAIS 

Prof David Anderson - History 

Prof Helen Wheatley - SCAPVC 

Prof Peter Langdon - CEDAR 

Prof Oleg Zabronski - Maths 

Prof William Murray - Physics 

Prof Andrew Huddleston - Philosophy 

Dr Michaela Gummerum - Psychology 

Dr Madupe Jimoh - Engineering

If you would like to get involved, join the IAS community or apply for funding please refer to our current schemes.