Funding Objectives

This is the launch year for the WFS Collaborative SoTL Research Fund.

The WFS SoTL fund has been created to enable collaborative partnerships between academic staff from WFS with those from at least one other department which receives students from a WFS programme, in order to positively impact the learning experience of students.

As a department, WFS holds a strategic cross-departmental role as the majority of our programmes prepare or support students, mainly international students, for effective and successful academic study. Current programmes include:

• Warwick International Foundation Programme (IFP)
• Pre-sessional English programmes from which students progress to a range of postgraduate taught degrees, with some also progressing to undergraduate degrees
• In-sessional study skills support
• Warwick Summer School & Pre-University Summer School

Within this context, the fund aims to support collaborative projects across a range of subject disciplines that will directly support the learning and teaching experience for students starting their journey in WFS and then progressing to another department.

We welcome applications initiated by staff from any department.

Full details of the criteria and the application form are available in the guidance document.

Note: As the deadline for proposals is quite late in the year, applicants are encouraged to think of extending their project into 24/25. This will mean costing for Term 3 and the new academic year separately (see section on funding).