IATL's Collaborations on UG Student Research Initiatives

IATL has worked with Monash University since 2012 – initially through the Reinvention Journal and then jointly creating the International Conference of Undergraduate Research (ICUR). The Reinvention Journal was a Warwick project, joined by Monash in 2012, and has been led by a joint team of Monash and Warwick students since that time, supported by the Monash/Warwick Alliance. In 2012, the Monash/Warwick team worked together to create the international, digitally linked conference for undergraduate students ICUR.

Portal Pedagogy

Between 2013 and 2015, IATL co-created interdisciplinary modules with Monash developing what became known as 'Portal Pedagogy'. Portal Pedagogy connected geographically distant students through technology and curriculum to create a student-centred community of inquiry neither bound by disciplines nor countries. The community was then able to engage in meaningful shared learning experiences shaped by the unique physical and disciplinary environment in which they learned.

The undergraduate module ‘Forms of identity’ was jointly developed and co-delivered at both Monash and Warwick. The module was taught over an intense block of five weeks consisting of nine two-hour sessions, each designed by a different subject specialist, and facilitated by a core team of academics. The module explored notions of individual identity, including national, bodily, gendered, racial, and spiritual identity, as well as the increasing prominence of hybrid, border, and marginal identities, and the notion that identity may shift, be fragmented, or exist in simultaneous plurality.

Several other modules (including Global Connections and Local & Global Shakespeare) were also developed and co-taught by Monash and Warwick and shaped a method of practice and teaching that developed transferrable transdisciplinary skills in a transnational learning environment. The practice of 'Portal Pedagogy' also led to sector-engaging publications including ‘Portal Pedagogy: From Interdisciplinary and Internationalization to Transdisciplinarity and Transnationalization’ (Monk et al, London Review of Education, 2017). Link opens in a new window

Collaborative Projects

IATL has been involved in many collaborative projects with Monash including exchanges between Warwick and Monash to develop further collaborative interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary projects with the Centre for Theatre and Performance and the School of Chemistry. For example, in 2017, Prof Heron (then IATL Deputy Director) was awarded the WIHEA International Visiting Educator Award and hosted two Monash visiting fellows, Prof Chris Thompson (Chemistry) in 2018 and Professor Kris Ryan (PVC Education) in 2019. 

IATL has also been involved with funded teaching and learning projects via the Monash Warwick Alliance which aimed to incorporate pedagogical insights from IATL.

For example, one Monash-Warwick Alliance-funded project, Global Classrooms in Higher Education, provides practical guidance and resources to staff to enable them to create an internationalised holistic learning experience in the classroom. The team worked across the two institutions to share pedagogies, resources, ideas, and experiences, and created a hub to be used by staff as an internationalisation resource to inspire new practice.

Finally, in Autumn 2022, Dr Riva and colleagues at Warwick Medical School and Monash University have been successful in obtaining a two-year Monash-Warwick Alliance grant to capture what effective assessment looks like in public health teaching. The project involves co-creating tools that can support teachers in re-thinking assessment practicesLink opens in a new window.