We are delighted to announce that the University has concluded an appointment process for our next Director and that Dr Elena Riva has been approved by the Committee on the Appointment of Heads of Department to succeed Professor Jonny Heron.

If you are looking for resources to support student wellbeing, the positive digital practices project has been busy co-creating resources which are now ready for evaluation. Working with CLL Students, resources supporting mature, part time or commuter students have been created. Take a look at our outputs, see what we have to offer and let us know what you think!

The call for WorldCUR-BCUR 2023 abstracts is OPEN NOW until Wednesday 16th of November 2022 @ 12noon GMT

Sign up for Abstract Writing Workshops for WorldCUR-BCUR 2023 held on Microsoft Teams. Tuesday 1st of November 2022 @ 8am UTC Wednesday 2nd of November 2022 @ 4pm UTC We will guide you through the abstract writing process, including the 4 questions What? Why? So What? Now What? And how to construct these into a coherent abstract. We will explore how to frame your language for an international and interdisciplinary audience. We will discuss the importance of your title and different Forms of Presentation to engage with your audience.

The University of Warwick will proudly host World Congress on Undergraduate Research & British Conference of Undergraduate Research in a joint celebration of undergraduate research 4th-6th April 2023, the call for abstracts will open July 2022.

The Global South Initiative’s first conference, When the Marginalised Speak, this Thursday and Friday in the Faculty of Arts building.

The Reclaim Project was recently funded by IATL and is a collective of poets and creatives of black heritage within the University. Earlier this month the project team released their first poetry anthology titled, 'On Blackness and Belonging', comprised of poetry from talented writers. The book chronicles the black experience first-hand, encompassing and creatively reconsidering the idea of black fracture and challenging monolithic discourses of blackness within academia. It is definitely a must read.

Order your copy or for more information email @thereclaimproject21@gmail.com or direct message on Instagram @thereclaimproject21.

Creating Digital Futures will offer students the opportunity to work in diverse interdisciplinary teams in response to a digital innovation competition brief set by Warwick’s Creative Features incubator.

We are delighted to share the news that Théo Aiolfi, one of our Early Career Teaching Fellows, has been awarded a two-year postdoctoral position as an EUTOPIA Science and Innovation Fellow (SIF) at CY Cergy Paris University starting in September, with an internal secondment at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB) in the second year of the project.

Students from IATL's Science of Music module visited the Royal Birmingham Conservatoire last term as part of IATL's new collaboration with students and staff from the Conservatoire. Several students from the Conservatoire took the opportunity to do a work placement as part of their studies by supporting Warwick staff on the module while, in return, Warwick students were able to explore the different musical performance spaces and acoustics in the new Conservatoire building. Angel Addo blogged the day.