IAS News
IAS Fernandez Fellow, Professor Reshetnyak, Named Optica Fellow for 2025
Congratulations to Professor Reshetnyak, who has been elected an Optica Fellow for 2025!
Professor Reshetnyak, supported by the Warwick Fernandes Fellowship and hosted as a research visitor by Dr. Oksana Trushkevych and Professor MacNally, has been honoured with election to the prestigious class of Optica FellowsLink opens in a new window this year.
He received this recognition for “the pioneering work on photoalignment of liquid crystals and achievements in liquid-crystal lenses that led to widespread applications.”
IAS Early Career Fellows, Dr Yanyan Li and Shaoyu Yang, Awarded Funding to Develop Wellbeing Programme for Researchers
Two Early-Career Fellows, Dr Yanyan Li and Shaoyu Yang, have secured £9,996.40 from the Enhancing Research Culture Fund for their project, 'Creating Trauma-Oriented Coping Strategies for Researchers Experiencing Vicarious Trauma Arising from Conducting Emotionally Challenging Research'.
IAS Early Career Fellow Dr Hande Çayır contributed a review to the British Psychological Society’s Qualitative Methods in Psychology (QMiP).
The review offers a reflective account of ECQI 2025, illustrating how the conference foregrounded practices of hope, relationality, and collective knowledge-making through concrete examples such as the Sew What? collective stitching workshop, Edgar Rodriguez-Dorans’ performance Mi Amigo Giovanni’s Death, and the creation of a neurodivergent-affirming space for zine-making, while asking: How might we build a culture of agreement in research?
IAS Fellow Oluwatosin Orababa Wins Dual Research Awards for Chronic Wound Biofilm Study
Congratulations to IAS Early Career Fellow, Oluwatosin Orababa, who has recently been awarded the IAS Interdisciplinary Research Development Award to study the interplay between efflux pumps and biofilm formations in a chronic wound environment and identify possible efflux inhibitors.
He has also been awarded a pump priming grant by the School of Life Sciences to generate efflux knockouts and carry out preliminary gene expression studies on these knockouts.
IAS Director and EUTOPIA Fellows Attend EUTOPIA Week in Venice
EUTOPIA Young Leader Academy Fellows from the University of Warwick and Alison Cooley, Director of IAS attended the EUTOPIA Week in Venice in December.