IATL Early Career Teaching Fellowships
The Early Career Teaching Fellowship (ECTF) scheme, jointly supported by IATL and the University’s Institute for Advanced Study since 2015, provides Warwick doctoral candidates with full-time support in the transition to their postdoctoral career. As indicated by the scheme name, teaching and the development of interdisciplinary pedagogy are key components of the ECTF programme. Fellows advance the development of both their teaching and research careers by designing non-modular pedagogic activities, and writing research publications, conference papers, job applications and postdoctoral fellowship/grant proposals. Coming from a host of home departments, Fellows have enriched the activities of IATL, the broader University and their fields of interest while also developing their careers, as illustrated by the mini-case studies below of recent Fellows Rebecca Limb, Theo Aiolfi and Lorenzo Serini.
Rebecca Limb
Rebecca earned her PhD in Law, investigating the extent to which children participate in their healthcare and the practical and legal barriers that children experience when seeking to meaningfully participate in decisions about their healthcare. During her ECTF Fellowship in 2019/20 she produced publications out of her PhD work, strengthened her interdisciplinary research interests, taught law to an interdisciplinary audience and developed the research ‘lived experiences’ methodology into a teaching pedagogy. Her work at IATL also led to two publications on co-creation, co-authored with Elena Riva (IATL) and Louise Gracia (WBS):
Riva, E.,* Gracia, L., Limb, R. (2022) Exploring Co-Creation as a Facilitator of PhD Supervisory Relationships, Journal of Further and Higher Education, DOI: 10.1080/0309877X.2021.2021158
Riva, E., Gracia, L., Limb, R. (2022) Co-creation: how to find the ‘super’ in supervision, Times Higher Education.
Rebecca is now a Lecturer in Law at University of Southampton.
Lorenzo Serini
Lorenzo Serini earned his PhD in Philosophy and was an ECTF in 2020/21. Despite the challenges of COVID, he undertook a host of activities including co-teaching an IATL module on ‘Understanding Wellbeing’ and co-producing an online interdisciplinary module on Understanding Wellbeing, developing publications including securing a Routledge book contract with a colleague, and co-organising an online conference “Blood on the Leaves / And Blood at the Roots”: Reconsidering Forms of Enslavement and Subjection across Disciplines.
Lorenzo is currently a Teaching Fellow at IATL, an Associate Fellow at IAS, Senior Teaching Assistant in the University’s Philosophy Department and works as a tutor for the EUCI programme at EUTOPIA European University. His research focuses on Post-Kantian European Philosophy (esp. Nietzsche), the history of scepticism (esp. Pyrrhonism and Montaigne); and the history of philosophy of the emotions (including specific emotions e.g. hope). He is also interested in ancient and modern conceptions of philosophy as a way of life and he has research and pedagogical expertise in various moral and political topics in the history of philosophy.
Théo Aiolfi
Théo Aiolfi earned his PhD in the Department of Politics and International Studies working in conjunction with the Department of Theatre and Performance Studies. His activities as an ECTF Fellow in 2021/22 included developing publications, co-convening the Warwick Performance and Politics Network and organising a series of workshops on ‘Power in Motion: Performance and Representation’, exploring the multifaceted way power is represented and symbolically mediated across society.
Théo currently holds a postdoctoral fellowship with the EUTOPIA Research and Innovation programme with further information about his research and publications available at:
SIF 2nd Cohort Fellows - Théo Aiolfi, CY Cergy Paris University - Eutopia (eutopia-university.eu)
