IAS News
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.
Dr Dino Jakušić and Bruna Picas Prats Publish Article in Con-Textos Kantianos
Dr Dino Jakušić (IAS Warwick, P2K) and Bruna Picas Prats (Warwick Philosophy) have co-published an article in 'Con-Textos Kantianos' entitled: "Is Metaphysics the only Science that can be Complete? The Completeness of Metaphysics in Kant and Wolff"Link opens in a new window.
The article investigates Immanuel Kant's notion of systematic completeness and situates it within wider 18th Century German metaphysical tradition.
Four Warwick Academics Receive IAS Interdisciplinary Research Development Awards
The IAS has recently awarded four new Interdisciplinary Research Development Awards to support Warwick academics.
The successful applicants are:
- Dr Dimitra Hartas (Education Studies) “Establishing a Neuro-Affirmative Parenting (NAP) Network to support research, policy and advocacy”
- Dr Freya Verlander (Theatre Studies) “Performance and Medical Response: Skin, SFX, and Diagnostics”
- Dr Modupe Jimoh (Engineering) “WADECOP+: Strengthening the Water for Development Community of Practice network”
- Dr Oluwatosin Orababa (Life Sciences) “Assessing the role of multidrug efflux pumps in S. aureus chronic wound infection”
The IRDA scheme offers up to £5000 to support the development of new interdisciplinary research ideas and collaborations at Warwick and the next call for applications will open on 3/11/2025 with a deadline for submissions on 15/12/2025.