We are delighted to share the news that Théo Aiolfi, one of our Early Career Teaching Fellows, has been awarded a two-year postdoctoral position as an EUTOPIA Science and Innovation Fellow (SIF) at CY Cergy Paris University starting in September, with an internal secondment at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB) in the second year of the project.

Students from IATL's Science of Music module visited the Royal Birmingham Conservatoire last term as part of IATL's new collaboration with students and staff from the Conservatoire. Several students from the Conservatoire took the opportunity to do a work placement as part of their studies by supporting Warwick staff on the module while, in return, Warwick students were able to explore the different musical performance spaces and acoustics in the new Conservatoire building. Angel Addo blogged the day.

IATL's Science of Music module inspired an event "Resonate: a string, a concert hall, a universe" at the Resonate festival. Some demonstrations were based on module's student projects and some involved balloons - always fun! The atmosphere was great, and it received lots of praise from the attendees. The performance with elements of electronic music and physics demonstrations was talking about resonance in physics and music and was developed by the team from Physics Department: Oksana Trushkevych, Gavin Bell, Rachel Edwards, Tim Cunnimgham and Sue Burrows - the team behind the IATL's Science of Music. *The link below is to the Resonate section on WIE website, scrolling down there are photos from our event (with balloons). The uploaded photo is chosen as the slide mentions the student project. Feel free to choose other photos if they will work better (there are some nice ones with the audience - or with three presenters.

Join us for this short online information session to find out about IATL and the modules we offer. There will be a welcome from IATL's Head of Department, Professor Jonathan Heron and IATL module convenors followed by a chance for you to ask your questions. Please click here to register.

Reinvention Journal's new Special Issue on the theme of intertextuality, myth and poetry is now available to read online, showcasing research and poetry by the 2020/21 cohort of students on the Reeling and Writhing module at the University of Warwick

IATL’s Student Voice Reps are some of our unsung heroes. They are the team of students who volunteer (or are volunteered) to represent the opinions, thoughts and experiences of the students on our modules, not just at the end of the module, but as it is happening, right in the heart of the learning. The insights they provide feed into our module reviews, evaluations and inform our action plans. They have made a huge impact, from helping us redesign our module pages to consulting on assessments and new modules. 

Found Sound brings together alumni artists and interdisciplinary academics to showcase sound archive as part of the City of Culture programme. This new version of the project samples materials from the National Cycling Archive at the Modern Records Centre and has been created by Jonathan Heron and Kieran Lucas, in collaboration with James Ball (funded by the Centre for Digital Inquiry).

We are very excited to be able to share with you our brand-new online module ‘Understanding Wellbeing’, open to all Warwick students. This co-created, not for credit (CATS), HEAR Accredited module, aims to provide students with a safe space and a helping-hand to begin or continue their own wellbeing journey. Students can explore the module at their own pace throughout the academic year.

For more information, click here. If you are a student, access the Online Module 'Understanding Wellbeing' on Moodle here. If you are a member of staff who would like to know more about the module and how to bring it to your students, please email understandingwb@warwick.ac.uk or e.riva@warwick.ac.uk 

We are pleased to announce that Dr Elena Riva’s article on Wellbeing Pedagogies was one of the most read resources on THE in 2021.

To celebrate this, Elena recently featured on a THE podcast about her contribution in which she shares her advice on practices that can be implemented to positively impact student wellbeing, inclusive teaching strategies and enabling classroom environments. You can listen to the podcast here.

Illuminations is a WIHEA funded project, building on the work of the Wellbeing Pedagogies Learning Circle and engagement with the Warwick Wellbeing Strategy. Our primary interest at this stage is to explore different ways of talking and thinking about workplace wellbeing with different stakeholder groups across the university. The aim is to help locating and illuminating ways in which institutional work practices, processes, and procedures, in a post Covid-19 landscape, enhance and/or inhibit the wellbeing of student-facing staff at Warwick.

Have you got something to say about workplace wellbeing? Got 10mins to spare? Help us find the words to tell your story using our anonymous submission form. 

For more information and questions please contact Raksha Gohel r.gohel@warwick.ac.uk or Dr Elena Riva e.riva@warwick.ac.uk