Departmental news

We are pleased to announce that Dr Imran Khan has recently joined the Department of Computer Science as a Teaching Fellow. Although new to the department, Imran has engaged with Warwick before—first through a secondment during a previous postdoctoral position, and more recently as a Research Fellow in the Department of Psychology.

Imran’s research focuses on embodied and enactive cognition within social systems, with particular interest in how and why emotions, social interactions, and relationships contribute to adaptive self‑organisation in biological systems. He primarily uses computational models to investigate these questions, aiming to draw insights from natural systems that may help inform the development of more adaptive artificial systems.

Imran believes computer scientists bring a distinctive mode of thinking to complex problems and encourages students to apply computational approaches when exploring questions across diverse disciplines. He is also passionate about science communication and is committed to making complex ideas accessible to wider audiences through podcast hosting, educational workshops, summer schools, and other outreach activities.

The department looks forward to the contributions Imran will bring in the months ahead. Colleagues and students are warmly invited to reach out to discuss research, teaching, outreach, or anything in between.

We welcome him to the department.

We are delighted to share that People without History are Dust, the new book by Dr Anna Hájková, Reader in Modern European Continental History, has been shortlisted for the National Jewish Book Award. The book is the first to examine queer Holocaust history, exploring same-sex desire and gender variance during the Shoah.

The National Jewish Book Awards are North America’s longest-running programme recognising outstanding work on Jewish history, culture, and ideas.

Find a full list of shortlisted titles and more about the awards on the Jewish Book Council website.

Warwick Manufacturing Group (WMG) has enjoyed strong connections to Indian industry since its creation in 1980. As national relationships deepen between the UK and India, including the signing of the Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA) in July 2025, there is a huge opportunity for mutual benefit.

Warwick's relationship with the Tata Group is a wonderful example of what can be achieved. The pioneering partnership was recognised when it won the Royal Academy of EngineeringLink opens in a new window’s highly esteemed Bhattacharyya AwardLink opens in a new window in October 2025.

This month's Warwick Wow Award celebrates the Early Career Criminologists behind the HMP Long Lartin Course, for transforming lives behind bars through education.

The highly competitive ISIS Springboard AwardLink opens in a new window has been awarded to Dr Daniel Mayoh (Superconductivity and Magnetism Group), marking a significant milestone in his early career journey.

Martin Baker (LLB Law, 1981) Chief Commercial Affairs Officer and Managing Director for the Paralympics at Channel 4, has been awarded a Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) for services to Broadcasting.

Dr Thomas Barber has been recognised by ‘Scholar GPSLink opens in a new window’ as highly ranked scholar in field of obesity for the last 5 years, placed in the top 0.05% of all scholars in the specialty worldwide, and ranked number 37Link opens in a new window in the world.

The paper describes the development of ShapeSpaceExplorer, an interactive software package that makes it easy to analyse cell morphology without any prior knowledge of relevant shape features and in particular enables tracking how cell shape changes dynamically. At the core of our software is a new and efficient method to measure the similarity of two shapes. Pairwise distances from all shapes in the dataset are used to position each shape in a low-dimensional map of shape space. The user can explore this shape space and visualise average shapes from any region of interest, partition shape space to analyse shape distributions from different experimental conditions or measure the speed of shape changes between two regions of shape space. We also show that shape dynamics information is sufficient to predict when migrating cells change direction.
Read the paper here.Link opens in a new window

Linsey McGoey, a professor at the University of Essex is joining Noortje Marres and Nick Ganes in an event led by Technology Economy and Society Cluster.

The call for proposals for the Warwick Education Conference 2025/26 is now open. This year’s theme invites us to explore teaching approaches that centre lived experience, challenge systemic barriers, and nurture students' capacity to imagine and enact meaningful change. Submissions are invited from across the education community (students and staff) and offer a variety of ways for you to share your work or lead community discussions. There is also support for writing your submission and opportunity to become a submission reviewer.

The submission deadline is Monday 9^th February 2026. The conference itself will be taking place on Thursday 4^th June 2026.

If you have any questions, don’t hesitate to contact educationconference@warwick.ac.uk