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.

IATL is delighted to announce the promotion of Dr Jonathan Heron to Principal Teaching Fellow. The promotion is recognition of Jonny's outstanding contribution to IATL and the wider University.

IATL’s Director, Nicholas Monk, is a contributor to this newly published volume. His essay looks at the "Native American Renaissance" of the 1960s and '70s. Members of the University of Warwick are able to read the book through the Library website.

This issue of our newsletter focusses on student engagement and is now available to view online. It features the items: Strengthening Student Engagement; Students as Co-Producers: Recently Funded Student Practice at IATL; 'Science on Screen': Students as 'Lead Learners'; BCUR 2016; and Warwick Strawbale Eco-Centre Project.

On 18 and 19 May, we had a visit from Kaire Kollom, Head of Studies in the School of Educational Sciences, and her academic colleagues from Tallinn University in Estonia. They requested a visit to Warwick in order to exchange knowledge and experiences of planning and launching interdisciplinary projects.

IATL hosted a pedagogic workshop for the HEFCE-funded project on Innovative Food Systems Teaching and Learning (IFSTAL) in April to support their teaching and learning aims, with a specific focus on best practice in interdisciplinary education.

IATL has recently welcomed three new members of the team; two existing team members will be going on maternity leave at the end of May.

Members of the IATL team have recently presented at or attended the following conferences: 'Interdisciplinary Learning and Teaching: Frameworks and Practice'; 'Next Generation Learning Spaces'; 'CounterPlay'; 'European Association for American Studies'.

IATL and IAS are pleased to welcome Francesca Iezzi as the first recipient of an IATL/IAS Early Career Fellowship. Francesca recently completed her PhD in the Mathematics department under the supervision of Professor Brian Bowditch and started her Fellowship at the beginning of April. She will be undertaking a project in the area of research-led teaching for IATL and will be participating in the ACE programme and organising a research-orientated workshop for IAS.

IATL staff were delighted to accompany Akira Tiele (Engineering) and Alice Brazil-Burns (Theatre and Performance Studies) to Posters in Parliament on 2 February 2016, where they presented their work to MPs, and staff and students from 25 universities. Congratulations to Akira, who won the Highly Commended accolade.