IATL's outputs
Outputs from IATL's practice and research. For outputs from projects funded by us, see Projects funded by IATL.
Playfulness in Higher Education: A Playbox
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In this playbox you will find ideas to help you play and be playful at work, at home, in meetings, in the classroom and when planning events. |
Portal Pedagogy: From Interdisciplinarity and Internationalization to Transdisciplinarity and Transnationalization
This article, by IATL Director Dr Nicholas Monk and colleauges, which reflects on the effectiveness of the current trends in international education, was published in the London Review of Education in December 2015.
The War of the Worlds and antibiotic resistance: a case study for science teaching
This feature, by IATL Teaching Fellow Dr Elena Riva, was published in The Biochemist, the Biochemical Society magazine, in December 2015.
‘Beckett on the Wards’: medical humanities pedagogy and ‘compassionate care’
This article on interdisciplinary pedagogy, by IATL's Dr Jonathan Heron and colleagues, was published in the leading international journal Medical Humanities on 5 November 2015.
See also: IATL's Medical Humanities practice and research.
Space and Place: Structure, Geography and Teaching & Learning
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On 14 & 15 May 2015, The Dark Would team organised an IATL event which explored innovation in pedagogy, learning, and teaching in Higher Education. Participants were invited to question what they needed in order to develop their pedagogical skills, ideas, and philosophies and were asked to consider what it is that turns the spaces within a university into places for learning which hold meaning and value. Feedback from participants was used to create three short films, each focussed arround the reoccuring themes of Structure, Geography and Teaching & Learning. |
The Ensemble Review
Over the course of a year and a sustained period of analysis, the
Ensemble Review developed an evaluation of inter/trans-disciplinary projects and an audit of the current membership and alumni of the IATL Student Ensemble. The review also reflected upon the journey from the Fail Better residency (2008) to the FellSwoop project (2013), across five years of work. In the true spirit of the Ensemble, the review was a co-authored and multi-vocal response, and whilst it is necessarily a work-in-progress as the Ensemble continues to evolve and flourish, it documents the group’s identity in 2014.
Building Bridges for Education for Sustainability
This report, by Dr Ria Dunkley, presents findings from a research project that focused on the potential to expand Education for Sustainability (EfS) related activities at Monash and Warwick Universities, through the Monash-Warwick Alliance. The report is informed by interviews with university stakeholders, including academics, support staff, senior management and students. Findings are placed within a wider context through a review of the current EfS literature.
Quality Teaching Spaces: The Refurbishment of the Ramphal Building 2012
In November 2011 IATL and the Space Management and Timetabling Team were awarded £1,000,000 from the University's Capital Investment Fund (CIF) to refurbish teaching rooms in the Ramphal building. A research project to evaluate the success of the refurbishment was carried out in January-March 2013; follow the link above for the report.
Video summary of research findings:
HE STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths)
IATL was funded to conduct three HE STEM projects:
- SME Too: How can HEIs and SMEs interact more effectively? - Completed July 2012
- In collaboration with the Centre for Student Careers and Skills, University of Warwick
A team of four undergraduate researchers, led by a project research officer from IATL, investigated interactions between HEIs and SMEs in STEM subjects, surveying and interviewing students, academics and SMEs. - Real World STEM - Completed July 2012
- In collaboration with the Centre for Student Careers and Skills, University of Warwick
Using scenario-based learning to ensure graduates are prepared for, and oriented towards, working in STEM Careers.
- Developing Business Skills Resources for HE Chemists
- In Collaboration with the University of York
To develop 10-credits of material aimed at level-3 chemistry undergraduates. The format of the materials will be highly modular so that shorter, bespoke courses can be built to facilitate implementation across a range of institutions. The materials are designed to complement students' industrial research experiences and expose students to more commercial aspects.
Open-space Learning in Real World Contexts
This project, funded by the Higher Education Academy's National Teaching Fellowship Scheme, brought together three National Teaching Fellows, from Education, Creative Writing and E-Learning at the CAPITAL Centre (Creativity and Performance in Teaching and Learning), to develop and embed new forms of creative pedagogy associated with workshop practice and collaborative learning in flexible teaching spaces. See the video about Open-space Learning at the CAPITAL Centre, which grew into the HEA-funded project. From summer 2010, the project was hosted by IATL and was completed in July 2011.
Highlights of available material include: Case Studies | Handbook of Open-space Learning Technology | Workshop Practice
RSA Academy Tipton Projects
The University of Warwick has a strategic partnership with RSA Academy Tipton. As part of that relationship IATL developed two projects. The first, 'Re-Opening Minds', explored the academy's unique curriculum design, whilst the second project, 'Opening Spaces', explored the variety of teaching spaces at the academy and the potential for innovative pedagogies to be employed in those spaces. These projects were comploeted in July 2011.
See also
Projects, books, exhibitions and films in which The CAPITAL Centre or The Reinvention Centre for Undergraduate Research (which combined to form IATL) were involved:
The Graduate Pledge: a transformational, inter-institutional change proposal
A HEFCE-funded project conducted by King's College London, with the University of Warwick, which aimed to explore graduate capabilities developed in the teaching and learning practices at two Russell Group universities with the intended outcome being a 'blueprint' for research-led teaching to inform policy in other HE institutions.
Re-Performing Performance: Shakespeare archives in teaching and learning
This project generated an e-learning resource serving as a record or guide of the pedagogic work of the CAPITAL Centre, with archival material, offering a range of possibilities for using theatre records in a range of performance-based learning experiences. The website offers downloadable introductions to specific collections and critical analysis. A kind of companion project to this, Unpinning Desdemona, sought to answer the research question: can performance offer answers to textual problems?
Spaces and Stories of (Higher) Education: A Historical Investigation
A collaboration between the Reinvention Centre and the HEA History Subject Centre, involving students and staff from History and Sociology at Warwick examining the historical relationships between pedagogy, curriculum and space in Higher Education institutions.#
Representations
A book produced by students on the Sociology Department modules Narratives of Disease, Death and Difference: the Sociology of Story and Visual Sociology; the book collates the creative writing and photographic work that they produced for assessment.
Get Over It
A book produced by students on the Sociology Department module, Narratives of Disease, Death and Difference: the Sociology of Story; the book collates the creative writing they produced for assessment.
Sociologists Talking
Online archive of an interactive multi-media exhibition which aimed to address the importance of university pedagogies in seeking to understand and engage critically in the complex moral, social and political questions of contemporary human society.
The Idea of a University
Exhibition created by a collaborative research team of students and staff from Sociology and History at Warwick. A mixed-media installation produced from original archival and interview data in order to map the spatial and historical generation and regeneration of Warwick from the 1960s to the present day. Some material from the exhibition can be seen on the walls of the IATL open area in Senate House.
Students at Work: Learning to Labour in Higher Education
A film researched and made by a team of undergraduate and postgraduate students and administrative and academic staff at Warwick.
Universities PLC? Enterprise in Higher Education
Documentary film about the marketisation of Higher Education made by undergraduate students at Warwick.