News and Events

IATL would like to welcome Dr Ria Dunkley, who has joined us as a Research Fellow and will be leading work on the Education for Sustainability research programme, funded through the Warwick-Monash alliance.

The call for papers for BCUR 2013 has now been issued, with a closing date of 7th January 2013.

The conference is being organised by and held at Plymouth University on 15th and 16th April 2013. Undergraduates of all levels and in all subjects are invited to submit papers, posters, workshops and performances to the conference.

Wednesday 28 November 2012
6-7pm
IATL, Senate House

IATL invite you to attend our Student as Producer Showcase, an opportunity to celebrate last year's projects and for students interested in applying for funding in 2013 to find out more.

All welcome. Please email Amy.Clarke@warwick.ac.uk to register your attendance at this event.

Programme

18.00 - Wine reception and introduction

18.15 - Student presentations

18.35 - Guests will be invited to view project posters and digital materials (allowing for specific questions and informal conversation)

19.00 - Finish

Wednesday 28 November 2012
7.30am - 12.30pm
International Portal (R0.12, Ramphal Building)

This event will involve students and staff from Warwick and Monash Universities and aims to explore sustainability in teaching and learning in Higher Education across disciplines. It will be held in the new International Portal which will bring together virtually participants in Australia and the UK.

The colloquium will consider ways that, at both Warwick and Monash, students and academics are approaching the idea of sustainability with a 'sense of adventure'. One such example is the collaboration between Monash and Warwick on the 'Green Steps' training programme which allows students to 'develop the skills and knowledge they need to create positive environmental change in organisations and the wider community.' Another ambition is to explore the possibilities for cross-faculty collaboration in education for sustainability. All of us, from lawyers to sociologists, to poets, to chemists, to engineers, to those teaching Business and Medicine, can engage with the idea.

What are our responsibilities as educators? Should we factor sustainability into our everyday teaching activities? If so, how do we do this? What are the obstacles? What responsibilities do we have to our students? Should there be wholesale curriculum change to accommodate what many predict will be the dominant transdisciplinary issue of this century? These are just some of the questions that we hope to raise during the course of Education for Sustainability.

Speakers will include Professor David Morley, David Elmes, Paul Taylor and Joel Cardinal from Warwick and Mark Boulet and Professor Geoff Rose from Monash.

To register please contact Amy Clarke, Amy.Clarke@warwick.ac.uk by noon on Monday 26 November.

If you're a member of academic staff and you're interested in attending a focus group to talk about your experience of using Warwick's online environment, please email Sam Boulby at s dot boulby at warwick dot ac dot uk.

No technical knowledge required – the Communications Office is interested in the experiences and opinions of people with no in-depth IT knowledge.

Volume 5, Issue 2 was published 29 October 2012:

• Editorial: The Undergraduate Reinvention of the Publishing Industry
• Encouraging Female Entrepreneurship: Lessons from Colombian Women
• Shrill Noise: The Perception of Women during the Great War Anti-conscription Movement in Melbourne, Australia
• A Review of Relay Auto-tuning Methods for the Tuning of PID-type Controllers
• Factors Affecting Peace Levels in Afghanistan
• Examining the Mathematical Sub-symbolic Registers Using Cryptology
• 'Devil's Ordinaries' and 'Chapels of Ease': a Comparative Study of London's Coffeehouses and Taverns 1660-1720

14 November 2012 | 12-3pm | Reinvention Centre at Westwood

Assessment: what currently works and what needs changing? IATL will be hosting this event, which aims to foster debate about the different ways of assessing students' achievements effectively. Contributions will come from colleagues across the disciplines, from Theatre Studies, Law, Warwick Medical School, History, Life Sciences and WMG.

To register contact Amy Clarke: Amy dot Clarke at warwick dot ac dot uk.

IATL has moved!

We are now situated on the first floor (west wing) of Senate House in a newly refurbished space.

From 17 October 2012 the IATL team will be hosting an open house with coffee and biscuits every Wednesday from 12-1pm; all members of the University are welcome to drop in. Come and find out more about us and what we do; chat to the team and to other staff and students about teaching and learning matters; learn more about our funding opportunities and about how IATL can help you or your department.

The British Conference of Undergraduate Research (BCUR) 2012 Special Issue was published 30 July 2012:

Editorial

• Connecting Research Cultures

Papers

• Lost in Space: Crisis of the Nation and Homeland in Contemporary Arabic Fiction
• Prevalence of Endoparasites in the European Hedgehog (Erinaceus Europaeus) within Regions of the East Midlands
• Youth Services: Listening to Youth?
• Development of Platinum-free Dye-sensitized Solar Cells
• 'I know not whether she be man or woman' (Shirley, 1986: IV.ii.93): Subversive Presentations of Women in James Shirley’s Revenge Tragedies
• Student and Staff Perceptions of Decision-making in the changing Higher Education Context
• 'The Scottish hate us more than the Muslims...': The North/South Divide? A Comparative Analysis of the Agenda, Activities and Development of the English and Scottish Defence Leagues
• Remote Electrification for Sustainable Development in African Communities
• An Investigation into Students’ and Employees’ Attitudes Towards the Provision of a Healthy Foodscape within a University Setting
• Is the Conservation of the United Kingdom’s Built Heritage Sustainable?
• The Current Status of Platorchestia Platensis in the United Kingdom

IATL, with Estates and Student Careers and Skills, is hosting an exciting new programme called Green Steps delivering environmental training and internships. Green Steps was founded at Monash University and is now in its twelfth year. Warwick is piloting the programme in 2012 to see how it can be adapted to the UK and IATL will be leading on a strand of activity focusiing on education for sustainability. This is the first example of how Warwick undergraduates are benefitting from the Warwick/Monash Alliance. More information