Departmental news

Carolina Alonso Bejarano and inter-disciplinary artist Miguel Alejandro Castillo’s dance-theater project, ELMO-MENTO, has received a Finalist Award for the National Dance Project Production Grant. This $10,000 award is granted by the New England Foundation for the Arts (NEFA), and it allows winners to apply for $100,000 to produce a proposed performance piece.

Warwick Law School’s Professor Vanessa Munro was highly commended for her research impact in the recent Warwick Research Celebration, which recognised colleagues who have excelled in different aspects of research.

Warwick Law School's Dr Carolina Alonso Bejarano has secured a Senior Fellowship in the Center for Advanced Studies in Reflexive Globalisation at Humboldt University in Germany, to work on her manuscript project, Legal Roots, Colonial Routes: Genealogies of the Un/Citizen in Hometown, USA.

Warwick Law School’s Solange Mouthaan has been awarded a Leverhulme Fellowship for her research project titled: ‘Cemeteries, colonialism, and intergenerational legal stories’ which reclaims the narratives of marginalised women and their erased Indigenous foremothers, opening a pathway into future research on reparations.

Warwick Law School’s Professor Shaheen Ali has been awarded the British Academy Senior Research Fellowship funded by the Leverhulme Trust for 2024-2025 for her research on ‘Adjectival Constitutionalism and the Plural Shari'a: Exploring the 'Islamic' in constitutions of the Muslim World.’

Warwick Law School’s Professor Henrique Carvalho has been awarded a prestigious British Academy Mid-Career Fellowship for 2024-2025 for his research project on ‘Just Sentences: Narrating and Rewriting Criminal Law’s Aesthetic Injustice.’

Warwick Law School students have won the LawWorks and Attorney General Student Pro Bono Award for 'Best Contribution by a Team of Students'. The awards, run by LawWorks with the support of the Attorney General, recognise and celebrate the outstanding pro bono work undertaken by law schools and law students across the UK. The Warwick team, represented by Law students Ella Cowell, Kieran Balendran, Clare Mellor, and Tani Ilemobola, received their award from the Attorney General, the Rt Hon Lord Hermer KC, in the Cholmondeley Rooms of the House of Lords on Wednesday 23 April.

Warwick Law School’s Dr Ming-Sung Kuo was awarded the 2025 Prize of Scholarly Excellence in Constitutional Studies by the Constitutional Studies Program at the University of Texas at Austin last month.

Dr. Charlotte Allender, Head of the UK Vegetable Genebank at the School of Life Sciences, The University of Warwick has been awarded the Veitch Memorial Medal by the Royal Horticultural Society (RHS) for her work conserving vegetable crop genetic diversity.

On her nomination, Charlotte said: "I am very grateful to the RHS for this award; to have such a prestigious organisation recognise the value of your work is wonderful.”

This award recognises Dr. Allender’s research into conserving genetic variation of crop species and for her almost two decades-long service to the UK Vegetable Genebank. This work has been vital for food security by preserving these sources of genetic variation that are needed to develop new and robust crop varieties.

Charlotte added: “The conservation of plant genetic resources is vital and underpins the research and breeding activity necessary to develop the new crop varieties needed for a food secure future. I would like to acknowledge that the work of the UK Vegetable Genebank is only possible with a team of skilled and dedicated staff and the support of the University of Warwick and Defra.”

The UK Vegetable Genebank celebrates its 45th anniversary later this year. It currently stores around 14,000 vegetable seed samples, sourced from 128 different countries, making it a globally significant resource.

Press release

We are thrilled to announce that Dr Ali Struthers has been shortlisted for the SLSA Annual Impact Prize 2025 for her work in leading the hugely successful legal outreach project, School Tasking.