Departmental news

The Modern Records Centre (MRC) at Warwick University has prepared a set of digital research guides to assist and encourage undergraduate students to use archival sources in their modules of study. The guides can be found on the MRC website.
 

Congratulations to Mark Storey , Commendee for WATE 2016.

Professor Christina Hughes, Pro-Vice-Chancellor (Teaching and Learning) and chair of the WATE judging panel, commented, "The Warwick Awards for Teaching Excellence highlight the efforts all our teaching staff make to provide outstanding learning environments for our students. We are justifiably proud of this year’s winners and commendees, all of whom exemplify Warwick’s commitment to fostering our students’ successes."

Congratulations to our PGs Sourit Bhattacharya, Brigit Breidenbach, Karen Borg Cardona, Lara Choksey, Qiao Qiao, Emil Rybczak, Martin Schauss, Madeleine Scherer, Andrew Stones and Milly Weaver who all passed their PGA qualification, Teaching and Learning in Higher Education. It was an exceptionally strong group according to the examiners, who considered their work of an extraordinarily high standard.

The Warwick University History Department students currently engaged in the Venice Programme for the Autumn term, available to all third-year single-honour history students at Warwick, visited the Palazzo Ducale (the Doge's Palace) on Wednesday 21st October 2015 with their tutors Dr Jonathan Davies and Dr Celeste McNamara.

Rob Daniel and Jack McGowan have both won Warwick Awards for Teaching Excellence for Postgraduates Who Teach. WATE winners are nominated through a process that gives students, peers, and members of your department the chance to recognise teaching excellence in the PGR community. They were selected from over 100 nominees. Many congratulations.

As a result of outstanding success in both research and teaching, the Warwick University History Department is delighted to announce the recruitment of four fixed-term assistant professors, all starting in September 2015:

• Assistant Professor in Medieval and Renaissance History: 01/09/15-31/07/18
• Assistant Professor in North American History (including the Caribbean): 01/09/15-31/07/18
• Assistant Professor in Global History: 01/09/15-31/07/18
• Assistant Professor in the History of Medicine: 01/09/15-31/07/17

The closing date for applications for all four posts is 20th April 2015. Please direct any informal queries to the Head of Department, Professor Daniel Branch, at D.P.Branch@warwick.ac.uk.
 

Overall student satisfaction for History students at Warwick University has risen to 93% in this year’s National Student Survey (NSS). The University as a whole has seen noteworthy increases in satisfaction in 5 of the 6 main category scores, including a 7% increase in satisfaction with Assessment and Feedback.

Thank you to all the students that took the time to complete the survey, giving us a clear picture of what their learning experience was like and helping us identify areas of strengths and weaknesses so that we can bring about enhancements to the student experience for current and future students.

Warwick’s Vice-Chancellor Professor Nigel Thrift said:

This success reflects our commitment to provide Warwick students with a high quality research led learning experience, that also equips them to become internationally aware and to leave Warwick inspired and equipped to take on some of our world’s greatest challenges. It also reflects Warwick’s continued reinvestment in its campus to provide the experience that our students expect.”

The NSS is an independent high profile census of nearly half a million final year students at Higher Education and Further Education institutions throughout the UK. The NSS results inform prospective applicants about the student experience at Warwick, and the feedback helps potential students with their decision about where they wish to study.

The Department of History seeks to appoint an Assistant Professor of South Asian History, with a closing date for applications of Wednesday 13th March 2013. Further details are available from the University's job vacancies website at https://secure.admin.warwick.ac.uk/webjobs/jobs/academic/job22778.html

Congratulations to Martin Moore, History PhD student, on receiving a commendation at the 2012 Warwick Awards for Teaching Excellence for Postgraduate Research Students (WATEPGR).

A new MA module, "Culture, Society, and Religion in Renaissance Venice", to be taught entirely in Venice during the Autumn term has been launched for the 2012/13 academic year. This new module can be taken by students on the 'MA in History' and the 'MA in Religious, Social, and Cultural History'.