Elisabeth Simbuerger, the Centre's PhD student at Warwick, submitted her thesis yesterday.  Well done Elisabeth!

Funding of up to £1,000 is available to Warwick undergraduates to conduct an original research project; the deadline for applications is 31 January 2009.  See the Small Grants Fund page for details of how to apply.

Volume 1, Issue 2 of Reinvention: a Journal of Undergraduate Research has now been published. This is the 3rd issue of the journal since the launch of the publication last September and all of the papers are free to view via the journal website. The journal is now welcoming contributions for Volume 2, Issue 1, to be published in April 2009, and for a collaborative special issue, also to be published next year.

A number of local schools are involved in the design and development of their buildings and classrooms, including planning for new buildings under the Building Schools for the Future programme. In collaboration with Reinvention Centre staff, they are using the Reinvention Centre at Westwood as a space for thinking and discussion about the sorts of teaching and learning spaces they would like, and the kinds of teaching and learning that particular spaces can enable.

The Reinvention Centre is gaining recognition for its pedagogic research in the field of innovative learning spaces.  As such, the Centre was invited to become an international partner in the project 'A comprehensive learning space evaluation model', funded by the Australian Learning and Teaching Council and led by Nicolette Lee, Swinburne University of Technology.