Congratulations to all the recent recipients of the Warwick Awards for Teaching Excellence (WATE) and Warwick Awards for Teaching Excellence for Postgraduates who Teach (WATE-PGR). Special mention to IATL’s Elena Riva who also won the Butterworth Award; IATL module convenors Roxanne Douglas, Paul Prescott and Carolin Debray; and IATL staff funding recipients Russ Kitson and Nat das Neves Rodrigues Lopes!

Congratulations to Dr Saba Hussain, one of our module convenors ('South Asia in Britain', IL030), who has contributed to a recent book, 'Rethinking New Womanhood'. There will be a book launch on 27th June, 1-3pm, at Social Sciences- Room A0.23.

Please contact s.hussain.10@warwick.ac.uk if you are interested in attending.

Deputy Director and Principal Teaching Fellow of IATL, Dr Jonathan Heron, has recently had two new publications released- ‘On PAR: A Dialogue about Performance-as-Research’ (with Baz Kershaw) in Performance-as-Research (Routledge, 2018), and ‘End/Lessness’ in Contemporary Theatre Review (Interventions, 2018). Click on the links to find out more.

Huge congratulations to Elena for being shortlisted for a Warwick Award for Teaching Excellence (WATE)! We're proud of all the incredible work she does in helping to transform the student experience at Warwick!

Jesse Stommel and Sean Michael Morris, co-founders of Digital Pedagogy Lab and Hybrid Pedagogy – a digital journal of learning, teaching, and technology will be coming back to the University of Warwick for two days in June. Click here to find out more and to register.

The purpose of the role is to work with Warwick's Institute for Advanced Teaching and Learning (IATL) and Institute of Advanced Study (IAS) to develop interdisciplinary pedagogy (examples include, but are not limited to: open-space learning, the digital, medical or environmental humanities, education for sustainability and eco-pedagogy, wellbeing, innovation and entrepreneurship, community engagement, widening participation, humanitarian engineering and undergraduate research). The application deadline is MIDDAY on Monday 14th May 2018. Click here to find out more details.

This is an opportunity to find out about IATL modules for 2018/19 and discuss them with the convenors and IATL team (available to all undergraduates in year 2 or above, with home department approval). This will take place in the Student Union Atritum on Wed 25th April between 12-2pm. We are also happy to attend departmental fairs; please just get in touch: IATL.modules@warwick.ac.uk.

Elena Riva (IATL) and Louise Gracia (Dean of Students) recently co-developed a successful bid for funding from the ‘HEFCE Catalyst Fund: Supporting mental health and wellbeing for postgraduate research students’.

It will result in a collaborative, cross-institutional project co-led by IATL, the Dean of Students and the Graduate School. This project also involves Mental Health and Wellbeing (MHW), Counselling Services, Warwick Sport, the Library, and Warwick Business School (WBS).'

IATL Senior Teaching Fellow Dr Elena Riva has recently contributed to the Interdisciplinary Learning and Teaching: Pedagogy and Practice (Leeds, March 2018) conference, with the talk "Student-devised Assessment | An interdisciplinary ‘love story’", based on her assessment strategies for the UG module 'Genetics: Science and Society' and the PG module 'Thinking Water'.

On an IATL module you will work with students and lecturers from right across the university, developing new ways of understanding the world by making connections between ideas, experiences and practice. Our modules are available to second years and above, in a variety of CATS weightings. New for 2018/19 are: Understanding Wellbeing- Theory & Practice; South Asia in Britain; Introduction to Design Thinking Theory and Practice. There will also be revised modules in: Navigating Psychopathology (IL002), and Entrepreneurship: A Critical Perspective (IL020). You can view all our modules here.