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The Science of Music - A blog by Angel Addo (UG Life Sciences)
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.
Student Innovation at Warwick new IATL Podcast
Student Innovation at Warwick is a new podcast series on how Warwick's departments embrace innovation. In episode 8, Dr Elena Riva talks about wellbeing, why it is important in student lives and she discuss the work of the students of her module "Understanding Wellbeing".
Wellbeing in the Learning and Teaching: Pedagogic Research Published
A group of Warwick staff and students led by Dr Elena Riva (IATL) has investigated student wellbeing in the teaching and learning environment. Read all about the findings of this pedagogic research project in this newly published article: http://www.ccsenet.org/journal/index.php/hes/article/view/0/44200
Student Learning Experience at IATL
Two students who have taken IATL modules have written blogs about their experiences. Vanshika Saxena writes about her take on our Design Thinking module and Qurratuain Amir Ihsan reflects on her experiences of our Understanding Wellbeing module.
Reinvention an International Journal of Undergraduate Research, volume 13, issue 1, publication 29 April 2020
This issue brings you research from a wide variety of disciplines, to make us think about our current context and the relevance of research to life. With five original research papers, two book reviews and two exhibition reviews.
We hope that as you read this work you will learn something new but also see the positivity the future holds, even in such troubling times.
Project Grant Award
Congratulations to Nick Monk, for being co-awarded a grant of €999k for the project ‘ENHANCE- Enabling Humanitarian Attributes for Nurturing Community-based Engineering’. The project is funded by the European Commission under the Erasmus + Key Action 2 Cooperation for innovation and the exchange of good practices; Capacity Building in the field of Higher Education.
Dr Jonathan Heron releases new publications
Deputy Director and Principal Teaching Fellow of IATL, Dr Jonathan Heron, has recently had two new publications released- ‘On PAR: A Dialogue about Performance-as-Research’ (with Baz Kershaw) in Performance-as-Research (Routledge, 2018), and ‘End/Lessness’ in Contemporary Theatre Review (Interventions, 2018). Click on the links to find out more.
IATL Senior Associate Fellow featured in THE article on crossing disciplinary boundaries
IATL Senior Associate Fellow and former Warwick staff member Matthew Broome has featured in a Times Higher Education article in which he talks of pursuing his interest in the works of Samuel Beckett alongside his main role of professor of psychiatry and youth mental health at the University of Birmingham.
Performing Chemistry
This article - co-authored by IATL Deputy Director Jonathan Heron, Warwick colleagues Isolda Romero-Canelon (now at the University of Birmingham) and Peter J. Sadler, and Monash colleagues Felix Nobis and Christopher Thompson – has appeared in Education in Chemistry magazine, published by the Royal Society of Chemistry.
Reconstructing Identity: A Transdisciplinary Approach
This book - co-edited by IATL Director Dr Nicholas Monk and Monash colleagues Mia Lindgren, Sarah McDonald and Sarah Pasfield-Neofitou - examines the notion of identity using a variety of interdisciplinary approaches. It collects current thinking from international scholars spanning philosophy, history, science, cultural studies, media, translation, performance, and marketing. The book is born of the authors’ experience of sharing an IATL interdisciplinary module with their students.