Our latest blog post outlines the ways in which student participation is central to our work, by Caroline Gibson and Emma Barker at IATL.

An article on interdisciplinary pedagogy by IATL Senior Teaching Fellow Dr Jonathan Heron and colleagues has been published in the leading international journal Medical Humanities.

See also: IATL's Medical Humanities practice and research.

Have a look at this week's Times Higher Education magazine for an article on the Institute for Advanced Teaching and Learning's Dark Would project.

Recent research in cognition gives new meaning to the term 'carnal knowledge'

An American teacher in Helsinki questioned the national practice of giving 15 minute breaks each hour—until he saw the difference it made in his classroom.

Volume 7 Issue 2 (published 30/10/2014) and the British Conference of Undergraduate Research (BCUR) 2014 Special Issue (published 5/11/2014) are both available, free and in full, online now.

'Educational Utopias and Dystopias: Reinventing Education in an Interdisciplinary Undergraduate Module', written by Will Curtis (pictured) about his IATL interdisciplinary module Reinventing Education, has been published in Other Education: the Journal of Educational Alternatives.

Volume 6, Issue 1 was published 29 April 2013:

Editorial:

• Reinventing Yourself Through Undergraduate Research

Papers:

• Keep the Ball! The Value of Ball Possession in Soccer
• Freedom, Morality and Self-Love? Reinterpreting Rousseau's amour-propre as fundamental for the virtuous citizen
• How an Early Caregiving Style Affects Adult Romantic Love
• 'Where there are many women there are many witches': The Social and Intellectual Understanding of Femininity in the Malleus Maleficarum (1486)
• Darwin's Happiness Hypothesis: Subjective Well-Being in an Individual Panel from an Evolutionary Perspective
• Effects of various oxidants and antioxidants on fibrin polymerisation

Book Reviews:

• Paula Jones, David Selby and Stephen Sterling (editors) (2010), Sustainability Education: Perspectives and Practice across Higher Education, New York: Earthscan
• Joshua Foer (2012), Moonwalking with Einstein: The Art and Science of Remembering Everything, London: Penguin