IAS News

Dr Yanyan Li has been selected as a member of the Participatory Research Cohort at the Warwick Impact Academy and has been awarded a £3,000 Participatory Action Research seed fund to co-produce a participatory research project about health behaviour change talk with a Coventry local healthcare provider.

Dr Yanyan Li, together with members of her WIHEA-funded project team, has published an AI Policy Brief documenting key findings on how students access, use, and make sense of AI tools within and alongside their academic practices, as well as their motivations for and concerns about incorporating AI into their study routines.

Find out more about the policy brief here

Find out more about the project and the latest updates on project outcomes: https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/cross_fac/academy/funding/2024-25-projects/ai-skills/

Our Honorary Research Fellow Dr Emrah Atasoy (Associate Fellow, English and Comparative Literary Studies) and Professor Jeffrey Wasserstrom (Professor of Chinese and World History, University of California, Irvine, US) co-authored the following article: “How George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four predicted the global power shifts happening now.” Their article was published on the 19th of January 2026 by The Conversation

IAS is delighted to confirm that the following projects are being supported by IAS Interdisciplinary Research Development Awards:

• Dr Michela Coletta (SMLC), 'Morphologies: Critiques of Extractive Reason'
• Dr Serena Natile (Law) 'Pluralising Law and Social Reproduction: Concepts, Methods, Practices'
• Dr Miles Postings (Chemistry), 'Mechanistic Understanding of Antimicrobial Peptide-Emulating Metallohelices'
• Dr Trevor Van Damme (Classics), 'Neutron Activation Analysis (NAA) on a sample of ancient pottery fragments from Methone, Greece'
• Dr Chi Zhang (PAIS), 'Everyday Resistance and Vernacular Security in China’s Digital Governance: Feminist Activism, Censorship, and Transnational Solidarity'

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 02/02/2026 with a deadline for submissions on 16/03/2026.

Dr Cat Jones (ECF) has been awarded a Participatory Research Fellowship, which provides advanced methods training, expert mentoring, and £3000 of seed funding to kick-start new participatory projects. She will be focused on using participatory systems mapping to identify causes of the socioeconomic attainment gap within UK education.

Dr Hande Çayır has been invited to join the Editorial Board of Disability & Society, a leading international journal in disability studies. The journal provides a key platform for debates on human rights, discrimination, and policy, while publishing empirical and theoretical research that centers the perspectives of disabled people across various social contexts.