News and Events

Thursday 19 January 2017, 12:00-14:00 | Teaching Grid, Library

WIHEA, IATL & Monash University invite WIHEA Fellows, WIHEA Members and IATL funding recipients to join Dr Chris Thompson, Associate Dean (Education) & Senior Lecturer at Monash University, in a workshop for those new to the field of pedagogical research.

Wednesday 18 January 2017, 14:00-16:00 | Teaching Grid, Library

WIHEA, IATL & Monash University invite you to join Dr Chris Thompson, Associate Dean (Education) & Senior Lecturer at Monash University, in an interactive workshop for Warwick staff around the theme of lectures, and what relevance they still hold in a modern higher education system.

We have a small number of places remaining on some of our interdisciplinary modules in the spring term. Studying on an IATL module gives you the opportunity to work with students and lecturers from across the university, developing connections between ideas, experiences and practice.

IATL has received funding via the WIHEA Monash Warwick Visiting Educator Scheme to bring Dr Christopher Thompson, Associate Dean Education, Faculty of Science, Monash, to collaborate with IATL staff and WIHEA Fellows in January 2017. Chris will contribute to our Strategic Project with Chemistry, discuss interdisciplinary pedagogy with Warwick colleagues and offer at least two open events, details of which will be announced by the start of next term.

Congratulations to Georgia Kremmyda and Volkan Degirmenci for receiving HEFCE Catalyst Funding for the project 'Developing a student-driven educational model between, beyond and across disciplines', which will develop a conceptual model for exploring the ways in which students act as co-producers of learning, and how they might work beyond traditional disciplinary boundaries. Project partners are Gwen Van der Velden (WIHEA), Nicholas Monk (IATL) and Colin Eddie (UnPS Ltd).

Two staff members and three students from Monash visited IATL recently to work with us on key joint initiatives: the International Conference of Undergraduate Research (ICUR) and the undergraduate research journal Reinvention, both based in IATL and supported by the Monash-Warwick Alliance, are being combined with a new initiative, the Compass Programme, to become the ICUR Experience. Compass will support a new student network and collaborative undergraduate research across institutions internationally.

25-26 April 2017 | Bournemouth University

The British Conference of Undergraduate Research (BCUR) promotes undergraduate research in all disciplines. The deadline for abstract submissions has been extended to 15 January 2017.

Wednesday 11 January 2017, 18:30-20:30 | Room 0.004, Warwick Business School, University of Warwick

This free public lecture, which contributes to the IATL module Censorship and Society, will be delivered by Prof. David Nutt, the Edmond J Safra Chair and Professor of Neuropsychopharmacology at Imperial College, London, who is perhaps best known as 'the scientist who was sacked' by the Home Secretary because he compared the harms of horse-riding with taking ecstasy.

On Friday 2 December Dr Jonathan Heron gave the keynote speech 'Undisciplined squads of emotion: critical interdisciplinarity and transdisciplinary pedagogy' at the Final Seminar of the Human Mind Academy Programme in Helsinki. Pictured (L-R): Mikko Ylikangas, Programme Manager, The Human Mind, Academy of Finland; Prof. Milena Zic Fuchs, Philosophy, University of Zagreb; Dr Jonathan Heron.

Friday 9 December 2016, 10:00-12:00 | MS.02, Zeeman Building

A special lecture, as part of the IATL module 'Challenges of Climate Change', from John Broome, Emeritus Professor of Moral Philosophy at Oxford and one of the lead authors of the 5th IPCC report on Climate Change. The lecture is open to all and will be followed by a round table discussion.