Warwick Psychology Ideathon 2025
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When and Where?
When: 15-16th December 2025.
Where: Warwick Campus.
Cost: Completely free!
Please note: You must attend both days.
Places are limited.
What is the Ideathon?
The Warwick Psychology Ideathon is a 2-day team-based challenge where students work together to design innovative solutions to real-world problems.
You will:
- Work in small teams to respond to a live challenge brief
- Apply psychology theory and research to real-world issues
- Develop a practical solution or intervention
- Present your ideas to a panel of expert judges
The Ideathon focuses on creativity, collaboration, and impact, encouraging you to think beyond existing solutions and design ideas that can make a real difference.
2025 Challenge Focus:
Helping communities choose sustainability and improve energy equality, in partnership with external stakeholders.
Why should I participate
By taking part, you will:
- Develop key skills such as teamwork, communication, and problem-solving
- Gain hands-on experience applying psychology outside the classroom
- Work on a real-world challenge with industry partners
- Build your confidence in presenting and pitching ideas
- Expand your network by collaborating with peers, staff, and professionals
- Receive a certificate and Warwick Award points
- Have the opportunity to win prizes and develop your idea further with mentorship
Client: Coventry City Council - E.ON Strategic Energy Partnership
Topic: The 2025 Psychology Ideathon challenge will focus on helping communities choose sustainability and improving energy equality.
Challenge Brief: How might we design an innovative intervention to encourage engagement with home energy retrofit schemes in Hillfields?
Using relevant theory and research, develop a novel intervention to increase the uptake of home energy retrofit schemes in Hillfields, Coventry. In your team, consider the unique characteristics and needs of owner-occupiers and landlords in Hillfields. Think about how to impact their behaviour rather than just their level of knowledge or awareness of the benefits of retrofitting. Consider how to involve and empower the community, and how to measure whether a behaviour change has been achieved. Ensure your proposal is ethical, inclusive, culturally sensitive, and respects the rights and dignity of the client group(s). Use your creativity and go beyond existing or common interventions already taking place.
This is not just a theoretical exercise. Funding is available to support the development and delivery of retrofit interventions like the one you and your team will be working on during this Ideathon. This means that your work could directly shape how Hillfields residents experience and benefit from retrofit and neighbourhood improvements, helping to create a fairer, greener future.
View our team here.