This issue of our newsletter focusses on interdisciplinarity and is now available to view online. It features an item on interdisciplinarity itself, student perspectives on our interdisciplinary modules, an item on wellbeing and study at Warwick, information on our new modules, and the item ‘Students as Leaders: A Campus of Ideas’.

Welcome to the newest member of our team, Nefeli Chatzistefani, congratulations to Emma Barker on her recent move within IATL, and to Phil Gaydon on his new appointment, and a fond farewell to Elaina Behl, Amy Clarke and Wendy Brown.

IATL’s deputy director, Dr Jonathan Heron, visited universities in California over the vacation as part of his IPF-funded project ‘Shakespeare, Performance and Pedagogy’ with Dr Paul Prescott (English). To coincide with the Shakespeare in Yosemite event, Prescott and Heron delivered workshops for students from UC Davis, UC Merced and the University of the Pacific, Stockton. Dr Heron also visited UC Davis to present on their interdisciplinary Performance Studies programme.

The Institute of International Education presented its prestigious Heiskell Awards in Miami in March. IATL’s director, Dr Nicholas Monk, was there to collect an honourable mention for the International Conference of Undergraduate Research (ICUR) in the ‘International Partnerships’ category. HE institutions from around the world entered the process, which seeks to recognise progress towards eliminating institutional barriers, furthering internationalisation, and broadening the base of participation.

Two members of IATL staff, Caroline Gibson and Amy Clarke, travelled to Nanyang Technological University (NTU) in Singapore in January for discussions with International Conference of Undergraduate Research (ICUR) colleagues from NTU and Monash University. The visit was a great success and further cemented the relationships between the three institutions. Follow the link for more about ICUR.

The works from the University of Warwick Art Collection chosen for installation in The Oculus are intended to enhance its multi-disciplinary environment and act as informal provocations for ideas. Staff and students, including IATL’s Director, Dr Nicholas Monk, were invited to contribute labels to accompany the works of art to open up their areas of enquiry to the users of the building. Follow the link for the full briefing document from Sarah Shalgosky, Curator.

Read the latest post, 'Students as Leaders: A Campus of Ideas', in which students Nia Hughes, Dominic Nah and Dammy Sokale outline their plans for research into developing innovative learning outcomes and partnerships as part of an IATL-funded strategic project.

Welcome back to our Teaching Fellows Elena Riva and Naomi de la Tour, congratulations to our Early Career Teaching Fellow Francesca Iezzi on her new appointment, congratulations to our Academic Manager Caroline Gibson on her long-service award, and welcome to Fiona O’Brien as part-time Office Manager.

ICUR (The International Conference of Undergraduate Research) has received an Honorable Mention for Warwick in the 'International Partnerships' category in this year's awards from the Institute of International Education (IEE).

Two staff members and three students from Monash visited IATL recently to work with us on key joint initiatives: the International Conference of Undergraduate Research (ICUR) and the undergraduate research journal Reinvention, both based in IATL and supported by the Monash-Warwick Alliance, are being combined with a new initiative, the Compass Programme, to become the ICUR Experience. Compass will support a new student network and collaborative undergraduate research across institutions internationally.