Departmental news
Registration for the 'Hellenistic Ethics from Nietzsche to Foucault' Conference is now open
Registration is now open for a three-day conference entitled 'Hellenistic Ethics from Nietzsche to Foucault' (25th–27th September). The conference is free of charge for all Warwick students.This is the first conference of a two-year-long research project entitled 'Prospects for an Ethics of Self-Cultivation
', funded by the Monash-Warwick Alliance.
Plenary speakers: Prof. Keith Ansell-Pearson (Warwick), Prof. Daniel Conway (Texas A&M), Prof. Beatrice Han-Pile (Essex), Dr. Edward Harcourt (Oxford), Dr. Kurt Lampe (Bristol), Dr. John Sellars (KCL), and Dr. David Webb (Staffordshire).
A full programme is now available on the website of the conference.
Congratulations graduates!
A huge congratulations to all of our graduates! We hope you've enjoyed your time here at Warwick and wish you the best of luck in the future. We may even see some of you back for further study!
Come along to our graduation party!
All students graduating from the Department are invited to a drinks celebration in the Philosophy foyer. Guests welcome to come along too!
Applications now being taken for two new Teaching Fellow posts
The Department is advertising for two new 10 month posts: Teaching Fellow in Moral and Political Philosophy, and Teaching Fellow in Aesthetics.
The closing dates for both is the 11th July 2014.
Postgraduate Philosophy and Literature student, Philip Gaydon, has been awarded a WATEPGR Teaching Excellence Prize
Philip Gaydon, a postgraduate student in the Department has been selected as a winner in this year’s Warwick Awards for Teaching Excellence for Postgraduate Research Students scheme.
The Warwick Awards for Teaching Excellence for Postgraduate Research students (WATEPGR) gives students and staff the opportunity to recognise and celebrate excellent teaching by postgraduate research students. Research students can carry out a range of teaching activities including facilitating seminars,lecturing,demonstrating and project supervision.How the scheme works
The award aims to recognise and reward postgraduate research students who teach or demonstrate and who have had positive impact on the student learning experience and also to enhance the profile of teaching excellence at the University.
Philip has been awarded a teaching excellence prize of £500, to spend on teaching or research activities.
Beyond Obligation?: Life and Ethics
Keith Ansell-Pearson will give a plenary paper on ‘Beyond Obligation?: Life and Ethics’ at the annual conference of the Royal Institute of Philosophy on ‘Supererogation’, being held at University College Dublin, 4-6 June, 2014.
Massimo Renzo will be speaking at The Ethics of War in the 21st Century conference in Stockholm
Massimo will be giving a talk entitled "Duties of Citizenship and Just War" at a conference on The Ethics of War in the 21st Century (Stockholm University, 24-25 May)
Studying an MA with us in 2014-15? Apply now for the new University Scholarship Scheme
The University has announced a new Scholarship Scheme for Home and EU students, studying taught Masters programmes in 2014-15.
The scholarships will c...over the full cost of your tuition fees for the 2014-15 academic year (or pro-rata equivalent for part-time study). In addition, students will receive a non-repayable bursary of £4,000 (or pro rata equivalent for part-time, Certificate or Diploma study) to help with course costs which will be paid to you in 4 equal instalments.
You are elligible to apply if you are a first time postgraduate student, planning on self-financing your studies (not in receipt of any other external funding or sponsorship), and you meet one of the criteria outlined below:
a. You have been an undergraduate Home/EU student in receipt of a means tested bursary from your undergraduate University in the UK and/or Maintenance (or Special Support) Grant support from the UK Government.
b. You have been an undergraduate Home/EU student prior to 2006 at a UK institution and you have been in receipt of a Higher Education Grant and a tuition fee grant from the UK Government.
c. You are currently in receipt of at least one specified UK government means tested benefit or tax credit from the list given below. Please note that only these benefits listed can be considered.
- Income Support
- Income based Job Seekers’ Allowance
- Income related Employment and Support Allowance
- Housing Benefit
- Council Tax Benefit
- Universal Credit
- Working Tax Credit
- Pension Credit
d. You entered University at undergraduate level from a Care background or as a Foyer resident.
e. You received DSA (Disabled Students’ Allowances) as an undergraduate student and/or you currently receive DLA (Disability Living Allowance), Attendance Allowance or PIP (Personal Independence Payment).
You must also have already been offered a place to study, and meet the entry requirements for your course.
The dealine for applications is the 16th June 2014.
http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/services/academicoffice/funding/fundingyourstudies/pgceandpg/wtmss
The Postgraduate Dissertation Station, in the PG Hub, is now open
f you are a postgraduate student writing your dissertation, then Dissertation Station is for you. Dissertation Station is designed to provide support as you transition from the taught element of your course to writing your dissertation.
The programme, which is organised in collaboration with the Academic Writing Programme, CAL, Masters Skills Programme, Student Support and the Library, runs in the PG Hub from 28 April 2014 until the end of August offering a variety of activities that will help you to maintain your work-life balance and provide practical information and support during your dissertation.
Sessions include:
· Academic writing for your dissertation
· Literature searching
· Managing procrastination
· Practical paraphrasing
· Sensational studying
· Dissertation Survivors (Social Sciences, Sciences, Arts & Humanities)
· Drop-in sessions with the Writing Mentors and the Wellbeing Adviser
· 'Shut up & Write' sessions
· Health & wellbeing activities: e.g. Yoga
· PG Tea chats with experts & current doctoral researchers
To see the full list of events and to sign up, please have a look at our events calendar:
http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/services/library/pghub/your/calendar/
This year we are also introducing the 'relaxation room' (PG Hub 7), which can be used for short breaks to relax and recharge during your dissertation writing. (Photos are attached)
If you would like to find out more, please email: pghub@warwick.ac.uk or visit our website: http://go.warwick.ac.uk/pghub/dissertation