Departmental news
UG Communication from the Director of Student Experience, Dr Jen Baker
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From the Director of Student Experience, Dr Jen Baker: |
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A reminder that we still want UGSSLC reps – we still have vacancies for Q300 First year rep, QW34 hons levels, Exchange student rep, Joint hons (based outside English) rep. The other levels and degrees are full, as is the EDI position. https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/english/currentstudents/undergraduate/sslcadministeredbysslc First meeting is Wednesday of week 4 between 1-2pm and in-person. You also need to attend training with the SU and need to be quite active as reps in garnering feedback throughout term. Please email me by Wednesday 9th October at J.Baker.5@warwick.ac.uk with your details (course / year group) if you want to join the SSLC and please also let me know if you have already gone through the SU nominations process or are contacting me independently
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Thrive™ is an exciting new personal development programme at Warwick, which was co-created with students and launched in autumn 2023. Thrive aims to help increase students’ confidence, resilience and agency, and is open to both undergraduate and postgraduate students, in any year, studying any subject. For the open programmes, advertised here, students must identify as a woman or non-binary person comfortable in a female centred community. Places are limited to just 30 per programme, so we encourage students to book early to avoid disappointment – bookings are via myAdvantage (search on ‘Thrive’ or use the links from the Thrive webpage). See fantastic feedback from past students here - Student Feedback (warwick.ac.uk) along with powerful impact data. 4 open programmes will be running during 2024-25:
All will take place in person, in The Hub (in Senate House) on campus.
A big part of what Thrive is all about is building a sense of community with our students, through additional opportunities for connection such as the Thrive Celebration event (planned for April 2025). A robust optional mentoring offer has also been built into Thrive to elevate the power of the programme by further supporting students on their personal development journey. A selection of comments from those who attended a Thrive in 2023-24 can be found below. Thrive helped me to feel welcomed into the new community. I can enter the adult world with the courage and the toolkit Thrive provided me with. The guest speakers gave brilliant presentations and talks on topics that I felt really resonated with me. It has encouraged me to acknowledge and value my own strengths. I feel a lot more confident in myself, I've made some brilliant new friends. It was wonderful. I met a community of strong women and I felt very empowered. I particularly enjoyed the session about strengths, as I was then able to use it in a strengths-based job interview I had recently. I was able to connect with such a variety of women from different walks of life. I thoroughly enjoyed the Thrive programme. Hearing from such a large variety of speakers with their own unique experiences made me feel a lot less alone in navigating the challenges of the world. I feel a lot more confident going into social and career-based situations now.
We look forward to seeing you on a Thrive programme sometime. If you have any questions, please reach out to thrive@warwick.ac.uk
Kind Regards, Dr Jen Baker |
Warwick Philosophy ranked 5th in the UK by The Complete University Guide
Warwick Philosophy has been ranked 5th in the UK by The Complete University Guide 2024.
The league table is made up of several main indicators including entry standards, student satisfaction, research quality, continuation and graduate prospect outcomes.
We are thrilled with the result, which reflects consistent high rankings in the National Student Survey (NSS) and strong graduate prospects.
Highly Commended Award for former BA Student
In a remarkable achievement, Emily Swallow has been honored with a 'Highly Commended' recognition in the Literature category at the prestigious Global Undergraduate Awards 2023. Emily's outstanding essay, titled “Holy Capitalism Batman! Exploring the Relationship Between Urban Capitalism and the Hard-Boiled Genre,” garnered well-deserved acclaim. The essay was originally crafted for the module 'Twentieth-Century American Literature'
Warwick Philosophy ranked 4th in the UK by The Times Good University Guide 2024
Warwick Philosophy has been ranked 4th in the UK by The Times Good University Guide 2024.
The league table is made up of eight indicators including student satisfaction with teaching quality and their wider student experience, research quality, graduate prospects, entrance qualifications held by new students, degree results achieved, student/staff ratios, and degree completion rates.
We are delighted with the result, which reflects consistent high rankings in the National Student Survey (NSS) and strong graduate prospects.
Find out more here.
'the woods, the woods' - an installation on Shakespeare's Relationship with Britain's Forests by Molly Dunne - Tuesday 23rd May 2023 - 11am - 5pm
11am to 5pm - Queen's Beacon on the Hill by Cryfield Village.
'The woods, the woods' explores what the forest stands for in Shakespeare’s works: how has our presentation of them evolved and what do they represent,liberate and constrict. It looks at social breakdown and symbolism, as well as directorial approaches towards the tricky and increasingly avoided task of creative the greenwood on stage.
Location: The Glade by Cryfield Cottages. The installation will be visible from the Queen's Jubilee Beacon on Windmill Hill.
Additional student study space available for Term 3
There’s a variety of study space available for students to use during Term 3. Students can find available study spaces in the Library buildings and Grids, and find out about the new Library Flexi-spaces on the Library study space page.
In addition, centrally-timetabled teaching rooms are also available for individual or group study when they are not required for teaching. In key areas (Oculus, FAB, Social Sciences corridor, Junction and Gibbet Hill) where the Reserva display screens show as available (green) until the next booking, these spaces can be used for study (no need to book).
Choosing options for next year - deadline extended to 9 May 2023
Congratulations to Kenneth Quek
Philosophy Undergraduate Kenneth Quek has had a paper published in the journal Logos, an undergraduate philosophy journal edited by Cornell University in the USA. Kenneth’s paper is called ‘Forgiveness: A Descriptive Analysis’. Kenneth summarises it as follows:
“Forgiveness features as a huge part of our moral lives, but very little work has been done to figure out just what it is and what it accomplishes. My paper aims to describe what, on a fundamental level, is involved when one forgives someone else.”
The paper was awarded the Top Prize out of 91 submissions and was the product of Kenneth’s Undergraduate Research Support Scheme (URSS) project on Forgiveness undertaken with Professor Fabienne Peter in the summer of 2021. Congratulations to Kenneth on this noteworthy achievement. Read the issue here:
https://cpb-us-e1.wpmucdn.com/blogs.cornell.edu/dist/6/8621/files/2022/09/Logos-2022-Journal.pdf
Warwick Outstanding Student Contribution Awards (OSCAs) 2020: Congratulations to Vera Okojie
Vera Okojie has been selected as one of the winners in the University’s Outstanding Student Contribution Awards for 2020.
This award to Vera, who graduated with a Degree in Philosophy in June, recognises both her enormous dedication to the life of the Department and to the University community as a whole, as well as her significant achievements academically.
Vera will be presented with her Award at her postponed Graduation Ceremony, when new dates are announced.
Congratulations, Vera!
Philosophy Department to Launch Student Work Placement Intercalated Year
The Philosophy Department are launching a new option for students who are interested in undertaking a year long work placement as part of their studies. Students who are keen to take up this option can now apply, at the end of years 1 or 2, to transfer on to intercalated versions of their current philosophy programme, on which the intercalated year is spent on work placement. (Students will have to arrange the placement themselves). During their intercalated year, students will take a special module, requiring a report on their placement year; this will be marked pass/fail, and those who fail revert to the initial 3-year variant of their programme. This means that students can work for a year in the midst of their studies without taking temporary withdrawal, and their doing so will be reported on their transcripts.
Please contact Guy Longworth (G.H.Longworth@warwick.ac.uk) for further information and if you have any questions.