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The University has announced a new Scholarship Scheme for Home and EU students, studying taught Masters programmes in 2014-15.

The scholarships will cover the full cost of your tuition fees for the 2014-15 academic year (or pro-rata equivalent for part-time study). In addition, students will receive a non-repayable bursary of £4,000 (or pro rata equivalent for part-time, Certificate or Diploma study) to help with course costs which will be paid to you in 4 equal instalments.

You are elligible to apply if you are a first time postgraduate student, planning on self-financing your studies (not in receipt of any other external funding or sponsorship), and you meet one of the criteria outlined below:

a. You have been an undergraduate Home/EU student in receipt of a means tested bursary from your undergraduate University in the UK and/or Maintenance (or Special Support) Grant support from the UK Government.

b. You have been an undergraduate Home/EU student prior to 2006 at a UK institution and you have been in receipt of a Higher Education Grant and a tuition fee grant from the UK Government.

c. You are currently in receipt of at least one specified UK government means tested benefit or tax credit from the list given below. Please note that only these benefits listed can be considered.

- Income Support

- Income based Job Seekers’ Allowance

- Income related Employment and Support Allowance

- Housing Benefit

- Council Tax Benefit

- Universal Credit

- Working Tax Credit

- Pension Credit

d. You entered University at undergraduate level from a Care background or as a Foyer resident.

e. You received DSA (Disabled Students’ Allowances) as an undergraduate student and/or you currently receive DLA (Disability Living Allowance), Attendance Allowance or PIP (Personal Independence Payment).

You must also have already been offered a place to study, and meet the entry requirements for your course.

The dealine for applications is the 16th June 2014.

Please visit the website for more information and to apply.

The 'Contested and Possible Sovereignties: The State of Kashmir' workshop supported by an IAS Public Engagement Award brought together scholars, media and creative practitioners and policy-makers in a dialogic format in order to understand the complex dimensions of the practices of sovereignty in relation to security, state violence, religious nationalism, human rights, and a distinctive Kashmiri cultural history and identity.

Talks by the speakers are now available.

Please click on the titles of the talks to access the video/audio clips

Catherine Coveney will be on Laurie Taylor’s BBC radio 4 show thinking allowed on May 21^st talking about her recent article, 'Medicalisation or customisation? Sleep, enterprise and enhancement in the 24/7 society' and links to her ESRC project with Simon Williams.

Denise Riley (School of Literature, Drama, and Creative Writing, University of East Anglia)

Geoffrey Gilbert (Comparative Literature and English, The American University of Paris)

Charles Turner (Sociology, University of Warwick)

• the place of shame in the ‘affective turn’ within the Humanities
• shame and the animal who writes
• the cultural configurations of shame and writing around questions of class, gender, sexuality, and ethnicity
• the translation of shame across linguistic and cultural borders
• shame in history writing and anthropology
• shame and new media practices, especially the negotiation of the private/public spheres
• the shame of reading forbidden texts
• shame and plagiarism (or the writing of borrowed words)
• the writer’s shameful practices (e.g. writer’s block; interminable editing and re-drafting; the abandonment or destruction of writing; and the anxieties of ‘confessionalism’ or ‘impostureship’).

Lunar Society, Nishkam Centre, Soho Road, Handsworth - 6:40pm - Wednesday, 14th May

Liz Dowler will join Chief Executive of the Trussell Trust, Chris Mould, and Birmingham's Director of Public Health, Dr Andrew Philips, to debate food poverty and obesity, in Birmingham, later this month.

The event will ask how Birmingham has an obesity epidemic, at the same time as a major growth in the use of food banks. It is organised by the Lunar Society, and joint hosted with Midland Heart, Localise WM, and The Birmingham Leadership Foundation

Attendance is free, and open to non members.

Visit the website for more information

If you are a postgraduate student writing your dissertation, then Dissertation Station is for you. Dissertation Station is designed to provide support as you transition from the taught element of your course to writing your dissertation.

The programme, which is organised in collaboration with the Academic Writing Programme, CAL, Masters Skills Programme, Student Support and the Library, runs in the PG Hub from 28 April 2014 until the end of August offering a variety of activities that will help you to maintain your work-life balance and provide practical information and support during your dissertation.

Sessions include:

· Academic writing for your dissertation

· Literature searching

· Managing procrastination

· Practical paraphrasing

· Sensational studying

· Dissertation Survivors (Social Sciences, Sciences, Arts & Humanities)

· Drop-in sessions with the Writing Mentors and the Wellbeing Adviser

· 'Shut up & Write' sessions

· Health & wellbeing activities: e.g. Yoga

· PG Tea chats with experts & current doctoral researchers

To see the full list of events and to sign up, please have a look at our events calendar:

http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/services/library/pghub/your/calendar/ 

This year we are also introducing the 'relaxation room' (PG Hub 7), which can be used for short breaks to relax and recharge during your dissertation writing. (Photos are attached)

If you would like to find out more, please email: pghub@warwick.ac.uk or visit our website: http://go.warwick.ac.uk/pghub/dissertation 

Liz Dowler discusses the benefit of a living wage over food banks, in an article published today on theconversation.com

June 25, 2014 is the thirtieth anniversary of the death of Michel Foucault. Governing Academic Life marks this anniversary by providing an occasion for academics to reflect on our present situation through our reflections on Foucault’s legacy – which could include critical reflections on that legacy. The focus of the conference, therefore, will be on the form of governmentality that now constitutes our identities and regulates our practices as researchers and teachers. However the event will also create a space for encounters between governmentality scholars and critics of the neoliberal academy whose critiques have different intellectual roots – especially Frankfurt school critical theory, critical political economy; feminism; Bourdieuian analyses of habitus, capital and field; and autonomist Marxism.

Gurminder Bhambra (Warwick), ‘The Neoliberal Assault on the Public University’

Nicholas Gane (Warwick), ‘Neoliberalism: How Should the Social Sciences Respond?’

To book your place, or find out more, visit the website

Download the Option Talk Schedule and the 2014-15 Honours Booklet