On Friday 2 December Dr Jonathan Heron gave the keynote speech 'Undisciplined squads of emotion: critical interdisciplinarity and transdisciplinary pedagogy' at the Final Seminar of the Human Mind Academy Programme in Helsinki. Pictured (L-R): Mikko Ylikangas, Programme Manager, The Human Mind, Academy of Finland; Prof. Milena Zic Fuchs, Philosophy, University of Zagreb; Dr Jonathan Heron.

26 & 27 November 2016, 19:30 | Humanities Studio, University of Warwick

The Bed of Passage is an original play written and directed by Christophe Locatelli and has been funded by an IATL Student as Producer (Performance) grant. It depicts an intimate conversation between a couple in bed that turns into a journey of personal and emotional discovery. Intense and powerful, interspersed with moments of bittersweet humour, this is a production not to be missed.

IATL’s Director, Dr Nicholas Monk, has been appointed on a 0.2 basis to the role of Education Lead, Warwick in California. IATL’s Principal Teaching Fellow, Dr Jonathan Heron, has been appointed Deputy Director of IATL with immediate effect. And a number of former staff members and alumni have been appointed as Senior Associate Fellows and Associate Fellows respectively.

IATL's Director, Nicholas Monk, attended the International Society for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (ISSOTL) Conference in Los Angeles in October, and the Engaged Scholarship Consortium in Omaha, Nebraska, also in October. Both events were an opportunity to share ideas and promote the work of IATL internationally.

Volume 9, Issue 2 of Reinvention was launched on Friday 28 October 2016 and features peer-reviewed undergraduate research from students at the University of Warwick, University of Sheffield, Durham University, Monash University Malaysia and the University of Cambridge.

We invite submissions to these two forthcoming issues:
• Volume 10 Issue 1 (to be published April 2017), from all undergraduates;
• BLASTER Special Issue (to be published July 2017), from undergraduates at Warwick and selected European universities.

IATL invites you to explore this new teaching and learning resource, which contains ideas to help you play and be playful - at work, at home, in meetings, in the classroom, when planning events. Arising from work on The Dark Would, the resource is inclusive: it's intended for all members of the university community.

Warwick members of the BLASTER (Best Liberal Arts and Science Teaching Expanded and Reinforced) project, funded through Erasmus +, will be at Leuphana University, Germany, in October, where staff and student experts from European partner institutions will showcase best practice in undergraduate research, and form small research teams to continue the exploration of innovations in this area.

Dr Jonathan Heron, IATL Principal Teaching Fellow, has just returned from his trip, where he worked with drama students on Weird Sisters, his own adaptation of Shakespeare's Macbeth, over the course of three weeks. Jonathan also visited our partner university Monash, in Melbourne Australia, as part of his ongoing collaborative project with their Chemistry and Theatre departments.

Our five-year business plan for the work of the International Conference of Undergraduate Research (ICUR) and our international undergraduate research journal Reinvention has been approved by the Monash-Warwick Alliance. The plan also covers the development of the ICUR Experience - a yearlong suite of activities - including the new Compass Programme, which will support students in working together in international research teams.