News and Events

Rebecca Smith from the School of Life Sciences has won the second £100 Amazon voucher for her participation. Complete the questionnaire yourself by Sunday the 30th of June to be in with a chance of winning the final voucher.

23-24 June 2013
12pm-12pm

We are pleased to invite you to participate in a 24 hour HACKATHON, taking place from 12pm 23rd June to 12pm 24th June in the Computer Science Department.

There's £400 in cash prize up for grabs for the best ideas, as well as free pizza, refreshments, goodies from GOOGLE and official participation certificates.

You can participate in person at the University of Warwick or remotely; register and we'll be in touch to arrange participation.

The hack will focus on developing web solutions for the new OSAAT campaign model of global collective action to aid in addressing the major global issues of our time in a coordinated and efficient way. We've already come up with a few concepts for web solutions together with major national and global campaign organisations during a series of interactive workshops.

This is an amazing opportunity for a memorable experience and to apply your coding skills in a meaningful way - whatever coding languages you are familiar with, come along and show what you can do!

Please register your attendance at: www.sibe.co.uk/hackathon

Nichola Caiger from Warwick Medical School has won the first £100 Amazon voucher for her participation. Complete the questionnaire yourself to be in with a chance of winning one of the two remaining vouchers.

IATL would like to know about your experiences as a student at the University of Warwick and there will be a £100 Amazon voucher awarded each week the survey is open to one lucky respondent. By completing the questionnaire you will be able to let us know if the Warwick learning experience is truly distinctive and the results will be used to assess how well the University is achieving the teaching and learning commitments it has set out to students in its strategy document.

The survey is open from Monday 10/6/2013 to Sunday 30/6/2013 inclusive and should only take around 10 minutes to complete.

www.warwick.ac.uk/iatl/activities/engaged/2013questionnaire/

Friday 10 May 2013
07.30am - 5.30pm
Warwick (Ramphal Building) and Monash

The inaugural International Conference of Undergraduate Research (ICUR) has been organised by the Reinvention journal team and will see over 80 students present their work. The conference will involve students from across the disciplines, from 4 continents and 2 universities presenting their research in person, via video conference and through virtual poster presentations.

The ICUR conference programme is now online and staff and students at Warwick are invited to sign up for free for any sessions they wish to attend. All over-subscribed sessions will be streamed live in the Ramphal lecture theatre.

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

Warwick's Students' Union has been awarded the NUS Green Impact Excellence Award for 2012/13 in recognition of their work with IATL to embed sustainability issues into the curriculum.

Anna Chowcat's (SU Postgraduate Officer) blog post about the award

More on the Green Impact awards

Jenny Quigley-Jones, who received IATL Student as Producer (Research) funding for her project, Encouraging Female Entrepreneurship: Lessons from Colombian Women, and who went on to have the paper resulting from her research published in Reinvention: an International Journal of Undergraduate Research, represented Warwick at the G20 Youth Forum, held in St Petersburg from 17-21 April 2013.

See the Warwick Insite news item for more.

Both the Warwick University Drama Society (WUDS) production of the play Pornography and the InDepth Theatre Company (based at Warwick) production of The Babysitter received awards at the 2013 festival, held in Scarborough from 23-29 March. Joseph Henshaw received the audiovisual design award for his work on Pornogrphy and the The Babysitter team received the Sunday Times Playwriting Award, Director's Guild Award for Direction, a commendation for Ensemble Work, and the Festgoers Award, voted for by audiences.

Performance Festival Bursaries awarded by IATL (including reports)

Friday 3 May 2013
12.30-2.30pm
Venue TBC

All are welcome to attend a special session with Dr Maria do Mar Pereira (Centre for Interdisciplinary Gender Studies, University of Leeds), who will be speaking about her experiences researching gender and feminism in an interdisciplinary context in the UK and Europe. This is a very special opportunity to hear from an accomplished interdisciplinary researcher in the field of gender studies.

To find out more and sign up for this event please go to: http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/cross_fac/iatl/funding/fundedprojects/strategic/genderedknowledges/events/pereira/