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Opening Spaces is a project co-ordinated by IATL with RSA Academy Tipton in which lead learners from the RSA Academy will work in collaboration with practitioners from Warwick to make recommendations for innovative educational use of learning spaces in the RSA Academy's new building. It follows the Re-Opening Minds project, which investigated the impact of the academy's unique 'Opening Minds' Key Stage 3 curriculum on those pupils who had recently made the transition from Key Stage 3 to a more traditional Key Stage 4 curriculum.

Paul Taylor, currently Co-Director of the Institute for Advanced Teaching and Learning, has been confirmed as Director from 1 August 2011.

Paul was Director of the Reinvention Centre for Undergraduate Research from 2008 to 2010 and is a Reader in Inorganic Chemistry, which he will combine with the Directorship of IATL.

Paul's academic interests are varied and include collaborative interdisciplinary projects both with Engineers and with Biologists. He teaches organic chemistry to undergraduate chemists with a particular focus on the practice of the subject. As Director of the Reinvention Centre, Paul was engaged in HEFCE-funded research into Teaching and Learning in a Research-rich Environment that involved collaborative research into Student Engagement. He is particulalry interested in research-led teaching and research-based learning and student involvement in all areas of University activity.

The winners of the three £100 Amazon vouchers were: Poppy Roberts from the Insititue of Clinical Education (week 1 of the questionnaire), Randeep Gill from WBS (week 2) and Oliver Wright from Philosophy (week 3).

IATL is looking for two Student Research Assistants to analyse the results of our survey of student engagement at the University. Each Research Assistant will be employed for 68 hours' work, between 4 April and 8 July, at the rate of £12.47 per hour.

You will be a second-, third- or fourth-year undergraduate with an interest in the social science of teaching and learning, competent in statistical methods, with experience of using SPSS or similar, and some experience of research.

Closing date for applications: 5pm on Monday 28 March.

 Further information and job description

"...the action of the play hopes to analyse why beauty makes us uncomfortable, how the ‘real’ world of news information works in relation to our own ‘irreal’ or sheltered lives, and what happens when these two worlds meet, turn sour, or become interminable."

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

• Wed 16 March 2011
• Thu 17 March 2011
• Fri 18 March 2011
  

Reserve your place:
FatGitTheatre@googlemail.com

The Institute for Advanced Teaching and Learning (IATL) is committed to improving the Teaching and Learning experience at Warwick, and we want to know what undergraduates think. Their feedback will let us know how Warwick is doing, how we can improve and how we can make the Warwick learning experience truly distinctive.

By spending 5-10 minutes completing the IATL Student Engagement Questionnaire students will help us to discover what we're doing right and wrong at the moment and will provide a benchmark to measure how things improve over the next two years. The survey will be open for three weeks from 14 February to 6 March, and one respondent each week will be randomly selected to win £100 in Amazon vouchers.

This mixed-media installation was produced from original archival and interview data in order to map the spatial and historical generation and regeneration of the University of Warwick from the 1960s to the present day. 

Originally exhibited during June 2010 in the Mead Gallery at The University of Warwick, part of the exhibition is now available to view in the foyer of Millburn House at Warwick until the end of April 2011.

More information about the exhibition is available in a recent Knowledge Centre article and on the exhibition's web pages (where some of the material from the original exhibition is also available).

An additional round of Student as Producer Fund grants has been announced, with both research and performance grants available.  Taught postgraduate students are now eligible to apply for a research grant. 

The deadline for applications is Friday 18 March.

This article, using the Reinvention Centre at Westwood (one of the spaces managed by IATL) as a case study, has recently been published in the journal 'Social and Cultural Geography'.  The author is Cath Lambert from Sociology at Warwick, who was the Academic Co-ordinator for the Reinvention Centre for Undergraduate Research before it merged with the CAPITAL Centre to form IATL.

If you are on the Warwick campus, you can access the full text of the article from the Social and Cultural Georgraphy website.

An event to consider how interdisciplinary research across the disciplines might be made more accessible to undergraduates.