News and Events

Monday 30th April 2012
1-2pm
Teaching Grid, University Library

IATL and the Space Management team would like to invite students and staff to this short meeting to see the architects' plans for our upcoming refurbishment of 8 teaching rooms in the Ramphal Building, to hear about the teaching ideas about the project, and to share your thoughs with us.

Over a light lunch, you can learn about the new spaces and how they will offer an "open" learning environment that will support both innovative and traditional teaching and learning styles.

To register, please contact Amy.Clarke, Amy.Clarke@warwick.ac.uk

IATL is now offering you the chance to participate in interdisciplinary, cross-faculty modules as part of your study at Warwick.

The three 12/15 CAT modules are designed so as honours level student from across the University can take them.

The modules are: 'Forms of Identity', 'Academic Writing for Publication' and 'Navigating Psychopathology'. All the modules are led by experts in the respective fields and many senior academics from a variety of departments across the University and beyond, will be participating.

Please see the attached flyer for details of how to register for taster sessions, and for more details on content, assessment and times/ dates.

Places are limited and there are quotas per faculty both for the taster sessions and the modules themselves, so be sure to register early by contacting Amy Clarke: Amy.Clarke@warwick.ac.uk

Saturday 21st April 2012
Humanities Studio

Fail Better Fragments is the 2012 IATL Student Ensemble Creative Project, which develops Fail Better's close working relationship with the University of Warwick, following their Residency from April 2008 to July 2010 at the CAPITAL Centre and our 2011 production with the Student Ensemble as part of the Open-space Learning project.

At this special event Fail Better will be opening up their archive to the Student Ensemble and inviting audience members to play with the material remains of performance from their last ten years of work.

Performances will be held at 2pm, 3pm, 4pm and 5pm with the Gala performance at 7pm (invited guests only). Tickets are free of charge but places are limited, please email Amy.Clarke@warwick.ac.uk to book your place.

'Agatha' is an absurdly dark play which places a domestic twist on the classical legacy of Greek tragedy and focus' both on an exploration of the play's sources and origins, and on researching the theatrical practitioners and absurdist writers that can place a piece like this into understandable and highly modern terms. The final performances aim to demonstrate the contemporary relevance and appeal of millenia-old topics in a play that is a product of its origins, but innovational in its production design and staging.

Performances will be held in the CAPITAL Studio, Millburn House at 7.30pm on:

• Wednesday 14th March 2012
• Thursday 15th March 2012
• Friday 16th March 2012

Performances are free to attend. To register your place please email agathatheplay@gmail.com

IATL is funding from its Strategic Grants fund the Library's Student as Researcher programme, enabling academic colleagues and library staff to work in partnership to develop students' information fluency alongside other academic skills. Students become producers, with outputs ranging from additions to the literature to poster presentations or conference papers. To find out more sign up for the Window on Teaching session to be led by Cate Mackay and Antony Brewerton in the Teaching Grid on 22 February at 12 noon:
http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/services/library/teachinggrid/exchange/forthcomingevents

A great opportunity to find out about the latest undergraduate research, this will be the second BCUR (British Conference of Undergraduate Research). It is being organised by IATL, hosted at Warwick University and is open to all.

IATL is looking for two Student Research Assistants to help us evaluate the impact of IATL's first 18 months.

Each Research Assistant will be employed for 50 hours work beteween 13th Feb and the end of April at the rate of £12.55 per hour.

You will be a second-, third-, or fourth-year undergraduate with an interest in the social science of Higher Education, competent in quantitative and qualitative analysis, and with some experience of research.

The closing date for applications is 5pm on Thursday 26 January.

 job description and further information

Real World STEM gives students the opportunity to develop their communication and presentation skills in a supportive environment and with the help of professionals from their own department, from education and from business.

We will be holding two sessions of two hours each to prepare students for the main activity which will require them, in small groups, to present and pitch a real world situation to a panel of subject experts, potential employers and presentation specialists. The last session will provide supportive feedback on their performance.

This is an opportunity for students from STEM subjects (Science, Technology, Engineering, Maths) to practice and develop the skills that complement their academic speciality.

This course is open to all students, and will be capped at 30 places. If you are interested in participating please complete the  Real World STEM application and send it to Nicholas.Tipple@warwick.ac.uk before 13th January 2012.

The Undergraduate Research Scholarship Scheme (URSS), which is supported by IATL, offers undergraduates the opportunity to gain valuable insight into research work through a collaborative project with a supervisor. The Scheme provides bursaries of up to £1000 for students to undertake a short (4 to 10 weeks) research project within a department or research centre. In 2010-11, 93 projects were awarded full or part bursaries, with 113 total participants.

The 2011-12 Scheme opened on Monday 5th December, and applications will need to be submitted by Wednesday 1st February.