New deadline for proposal submissions: 15 November 2024, 17:00

Funding Objectives

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), from which students progress to a broad range of undergraduate degrees across the institution;
• 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 which provides targeted academic skills development for those on any level of degree which is often tailored provision within specific departments
• 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.

In line with the institutional education strategy, project focus could include:

• Student Engagement and Inclusion
• Digital Education/Blended Learning
• Inclusive Assessment
• The effectiveness of specific strategies and approaches
• Curriculum Design & Development
• Internationalisation
• Inclusive education
• Student outcomes
• Mapping of WFS programme to one of the degrees/a group of degrees students progress onto
• Tracking of students (e.g. student experience, student performance on degree)

Full detail of the criteria is available in the guidance document.