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Meifang Zhuo has received another IATL Project Support Funding, with an award of £1500, for a student-led interdisciplinary project entitled 'Technostress in the age of generative AI: Voices from L2 doctoral students in the UK. ' In this project, she will be collaborating with and receiving mentoring from two staff members:  Associate Professor, Dr. David Orrego-Carmona from School of Modern Languages and Cultures  Associate Professor, Dr. Carla Toro from Warwick Medical School This project will soon recruit L2 doctoral students in the UK as research participants. Participants will be involved in informative, fun and creative data collection sessions and receive reimbursement/lunch for their participation. Please express your interest by email: meifang.zhuo@warwick.ac.uk.

Marianna Patrick, who has been offered the post of Research Fellow to support Ema Ushioda’s Leverhulme Trust project “Navigating the ethical complexities of using generative AI for academic writing”! This is a two-year full-time postdoctoral research position starting in April, and Marianna beat stiff competition from a very large pool (100+) of applicants!

The project is titled ‘Fostering Belonging: Empowering Doctoral and Early Career Researchers in Intercultural Research Context’.

Li, J., & Gong, W. (2025). Engaging young language learners in participatory research: Visual arts-based approach. Research Methods in Applied Linguistics, 4(1), 100187. See it here.

Altman Peng research, coauthored with Dr Chunyan Wu and Dr Yu Sun, is featured in a news story. Phys.org. 2025, 5 February. Activists leverage social media to counter China's state-controlled narratives, Available here.

Kieran File, Stephanie Schnurr & Marianna Patrick have led on an exciting research project collaborating the University of Warwick and Monash University on groundbreaking research into inclusivity in multicultural cricket teams.

The University of Warwick, in partnership with Monash University, is proud to unveil the findings from an insightful research project addressing inclusivity and cohesion in multicultural cricket teams.

This collaborative project, developed through the Monash Warwick Alliance and spearheaded by Kieran File (The University of Warwick) and Dr Lucas Santos (Monash University), focuses on how multicultural cricket teams, particularly those involving South Asian migrant players,

can foster greater inclusivity.

By examining the behaviours and interactions within these teams, the research provides a deeper understanding of how everyday actions can either foster belonging or perpetuate exclusion.

Dr Kieran File, Principal Investigator at The University of Warwick said, “Our research revealed that many challenges to inclusion in multicultural teams arise from every day, taken-for-granted actions and behaviours. These everyday actions and behaviours can unintentionally lead to exclusion, but when thoughtfully addressed and/or adjusted, they can foster a stronger sense of belonging.

Read more about the project here.