Warwick Law School News

University of Warwick celebrated recognition across four categories at the 2025 Times Higher Education (THE) Awards, held on 13 November 2025 at the Edinburgh International Conference Centre. School Tasking was nominated in the Widening Participation or Outreach Initiative of the Year.

School Tasking is a creative legal outreach programme that uses the format of Channel 4’s Taskmaster comedy game show to inspire Year 5 pupils from widening participation backgrounds. Led by university law students, sessions introduce children to legal thinking through fun, interactive classroom tasks.

Created by Warwick Law School's Dr Ali Struthers in 2021, School Tasking has grown into one of the UK’s largest widening participation collaborations. In 2024-25, more than 3,500 pupils from 31 universities took part, with a Champion of Champions final hosted by Taskmaster creator Alex Horne.

Dr Ali Struthers, Reader at Warwick Law School and Creator of School Tasking said:

“We’re absolutely delighted that School Tasking was shortlisted for Widening Participation or Outreach Initiative of the Year for 2025 in the Times Higher Education Awards. It’s such an honour for us to be recognised amongst such valuable and impactful widening participation projects. All of us in the School Tasking team extend our warmest congratulations to the worthy winners, Liverpool John Moores University.”

Congratulations to Ali and the rest of the team.

Find out more about the other Warwick nominees in the University press release.