Interdisciplinary Certificate

We are considering ways to creatively expand our portfolio of activities through flexible online learning modules (such as the online Understanding Wellbeing and Coventry City of Culture modules) and through the co-creation, with students, of an Interdisciplinary Certificate that would allow students to be recognised for engaging with IATL in different ways e.g., being on the Reinvention editorial team, an ICUR Student Director, a Student Voice Representative, undertaking an IATL funded project, getting involved in a co-creation project, becoming an IATL co-creation officer, successfully completing an online IATL module or taking one or more IATL modules.

Possible engagements with IATL (for the Interdisciplinary Certificate)

Engagement with Student Research Reinvention Journal Contributor Reinvention Journal Editor Student Presenter at ICUR Student Director at ICUR Student Volunteer at ICUR
Engagement with Modules Student of IATL Module (CATs) - (Taking a module for credit) Studying on an IATL module gives students the opportunity to work with students and lecturers from across the university, developing connections between ideas, experiences and practice. These skills, of working with people from different backgrounds and developing complex understandings of concepts, are increasingly valued by both students and employers alike and offer students ways of engaging with some of the big questions facing us today. Student of IATL Module (Audit) - (Taking a module for non-credit) Student Voice Representative This role involves gathering feedback from peers before attending a student voice meeting chaired by an IATL co-creator. This allows IATL to gain more in-depth feedback on its modules. Student voice reps also have an opportunity to provide feedback as part of the module approval process for new modules. Module focus group participation
Engagement with Project Support Successful PS Applicant (successfully applied for project support with IATL) Application Co-creator (co-created a staff-led application)
Being a Co-creation Officer Co-creation Officer in the IATL Department Co-creation Officers work closely with colleagues as ‘expert co-creators’ within the department, and more widely within the university, developing and supporting practices of co-creation in different contexts and sharing their perspectives as students; something inherent to the work IATL does as a department. They are available to discuss practices of co-creation between staff and students and to support the projects and work within the department. They bring valuable experience and expertise to considering how co-creation works in diverse contexts, and work both on projects which focus on co-creation explicitly, and which are underpinned by or seek to develop practices of co-creation.
Sharing IATL’s Practice Creating content for IATL’s social media/ webpage (e.g., writing a blog, recording a video about a module experience) Presenting one of IATL’s Modules at the IATL Module Fair