Many congratulations to our Senior Tutor Tilly Harrison on being shortlisted for the Warwick Awards for Personal Tutoring Excellence (WAPTE)!

This initiative recognises the importance of academic support to our students and seeks to celebrate the work of the University's dedicated network of Senior and Personal Tutors. The full shortlist is available here: https://warwick.ac.uk/services/dean-of-students-office/wapte/wapte1920shortlist/

The Department’s GlobalPeople team have recorded two sets of webinar-style videos for those interested in working across cultural boundaries of various kinds. The topics covered so far are as follows:

Global Fitness for work

#1 What is global fitness and why is it important?

#2 Nurturing responsibilities

#3 Assessment and strategic planning

Internationalisation in Higher Education

#1 Understanding the process

#2 Checking progress

#3 Academic integration

#4 Classroom diversity

They can all be accessed via the GlobalPeople website

Dr Stephanie Schnurr explains why humour is a powerful tool that can help us feel less worried & alone, & more in control in a piece for the University of Warwick's Knowledge Centre.

Staff and students are celebrating as it was announced that we have been ranked 2 amongst UK Linguistics Departments in the Times and Sunday Times 2020 University League Table. Our new ranking puts the department just behind Oxford in this nationally recognised league table.

It gave us great pleasure that internationally acclaimed scholar, Professor Janet Holmes, was awarded an Hon DLitt (Honorary Doctor of Letters) at yesterday’s graduation ceremony. Not only is Janet an outstanding scholar in the field of Sociolinguistics, she has also always been very generous in sharing both her expertise and her time with students and colleagues during her time as Honorary Professor in the Centre for Applied Linguistics (2010-2018). We were thrilled that she received her award at the same ceremony as our graduating students.

100% of students gave their overall satisfaction with our undergraduate courses as 95.2% according to this year’s NSS survey with overall satisfaction reaching 100% on our BA Language Culture and Communication degree.