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The purpose of the role is to work with Warwick's Institute for Advanced Teaching and Learning (IATL) and Institute of Advanced Study (IAS) to develop interdisciplinary pedagogy (examples include, but are not limited to: open-space learning, the digital, medical or environmental humanities, education for sustainability and eco-pedagogy, wellbeing, innovation and entrepreneurship, community engagement, widening participation, humanitarian engineering and undergraduate research). The application deadline is MIDDAY on Monday 14th May 2018. Click here to find out more details.

As a partner institution of BCUR we were delighted that 27 undergraduates from Warwick were accepted and presented their research work at BCUR earlier this month. This year BCUR was held at the University of Sheffield and hosted students from 69 institutions, from a variety of disciplines. At the two day conference students had a fantastic opportunity to present their research work by speaking, poster, installation or performance, with Warwick students participating in each element. The conference was busy, packed full of interesting topics and debates, it also offered the chance to network and socialise with fellow students and academics.
BCUR19 has already been announced, it will be held over two days, 15th – 16th April 2019, at the University of South Wales in Cardiff. Look out for a Call for Abstracts in the autumn term with a submission deadline during December 2018.

This is an opportunity to find out about IATL modules for 2018/19 and discuss them with the convenors and IATL team (available to all undergraduates in year 2 or above, with home department approval). This will take place in the Student Union Atritum on Wed 25th April between 12-2pm. We are also happy to attend departmental fairs; please just get in touch: IATL.modules@warwick.ac.uk.

Elena Riva (IATL) and Louise Gracia (Dean of Students) recently co-developed a successful bid for funding from the ‘HEFCE Catalyst Fund: Supporting mental health and wellbeing for postgraduate research students’.

It will result in a collaborative, cross-institutional project co-led by IATL, the Dean of Students and the Graduate School. This project also involves Mental Health and Wellbeing (MHW), Counselling Services, Warwick Sport, the Library, and Warwick Business School (WBS).'

IATL Senior Teaching Fellow Dr Elena Riva has recently contributed to the Interdisciplinary Learning and Teaching: Pedagogy and Practice (Leeds, March 2018) conference, with the talk "Student-devised Assessment | An interdisciplinary ‘love story’", based on her assessment strategies for the UG module 'Genetics: Science and Society' and the PG module 'Thinking Water'.

On an IATL module you will work with students and lecturers from right across the university, developing new ways of understanding the world by making connections between ideas, experiences and practice. Our modules are available to second years and above, in a variety of CATS weightings. New for 2018/19 are: Understanding Wellbeing- Theory & Practice; South Asia in Britain; Introduction to Design Thinking Theory and Practice. There will also be revised modules in: Navigating Psychopathology (IL002), and Entrepreneurship: A Critical Perspective (IL020). You can view all our modules here.

The sixth annual International Conference of Undergraduate Research (ICUR) will be held on 25 & 26 September 2018 and is open to undergraduate researchers from any discipline. Submit your abstract of 250 words for the chance to present to an audience around the world. There are opportunities to find out more through informal sessions as well as workshops on writing your abstract, and intercultural communication. Click here to see the different training options.

Thursday 22 March 2018, 16:00-18:00 | Teaching Grid

This WIHEA seminar will be delivered by former IATL Director Paul Taylor, now a Pro Dean for Student Education at the University of Leeds. It will include critical accounts of work at Leeds, and new research exploring how ‘high impact experiences’ such as undergraduate research affect the world beyond the university.

Dr Jonathan Heron, currently our Deputy Director and Principal Teaching Fellow, is to become Director of IATL for an initial term of three years. He was a founding member of IATL in 2010, following appointment to the university in 2007. We would also like to acknowledge the outstanding contribution of Dr Nicholas Monk, who will step down as Director later this year (see his newsletter editorial).

Two Warwick students, Mike Hopper and James Blake, were selected to attend Posters in Parliament on 20 February 2018. The calibre of research on display by undergraduates from around the UK was exceptional and we are pleased to announce that James was selected by the panel of judges as the overall winner for his poster ‘Modelling panspermia in the TRAPPIST-1 system’.