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Congratulations to WATE Winners and all nominees

Many congratulations to all who have been recognised for their teaching via the recent WATE Awards.

Nancy Haijing Jiang and Michael Meeuwis were both short-listed and in the postgraduate group, Owain Burrell and Andy Irwin received a Commendation, and Elizabeth Sharrock was declared a winner.

WATE Postgraduates who teach




Professor Peter Mack FBA (1955-2023)

We are shocked and deeply saddened to learn that Peter Mack died as the result of a car accident on Thursday 5th October.

Peter Mack was a rigorous scholar and an excellent administrator. He directed the Warburg Institute from 2010 to 2014 and was both Head of the Department of English & Comparative Literary Studies and Chair of the Faculty of Arts, besides being actively involved in the Centre for the Study of the Renaissance. A Fellow of the British Academy and a leading authority on the English and European Renaissance, combining Shakespeare and Montaigne, his work and kindness touched everyone who met him, from students to colleagues, across various disciplines. His many books included Elizabethan Rhetoric: Theory and Practice (2002); Reading and Rhetoric in Montaigne and Shakespeare (2010); A History of Renaissance Rhetoric 1380-1620 (2011); and Rhetoric's Questions, Reading and Interpretation (2017) 

Further details about the funeral and memorial event will be announced as soon as we have them. Our thoughts and prayers are with his family. 

Mon 09 Oct 2023, 18:26 | Tags: Staff, Teaching, English, News

'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.

Mon 22 May 2023, 09:22 | Tags: Undergraduate, Public Event, English, News

Impact of 1956 Clean Air Act detected in Thames sediment using Advanced Mass Spectrometry

A Warwick collaboration with the British Geological Survey and CENTA funding unearths the environmental history within the Thames area using ultrahigh resolution mass spectrometry

Tue 09 Jul 2024, 17:14 | Tags: news MeasMod Research news MeasAnalytical

Templating Calcium Phosphate onto Graphene Oxide Sheets

Journal of Colloid and Interface Science paper shows how to grow Calcium Phosphate onto single dispersed sheets of Graphene Oxide

Tue 09 Jul 2024, 16:55 | Tags: news PolymerChem MatPolymers

Warwick Battery Days 2024

The Warwick Battery Days (WBD 2024) conference, co-organised by Warwick Chemistry and Warwick Manufacturing Group (WMG), was a resounding success.

Wed 03 Jul 2024, 12:29 | Tags: news Research news Energy CaTCh

Branched polymer latexes make great adhesives

Excellent water-based pressure sensitive adhesives can be made from polymer latexes with a branched chain architecture

Fri 21 Jun 2024, 09:39 | Tags: news PolymerChem MatPolymers Research news

Four Warwick Chemists win prestigious Royal Society of Chemistry prizes

Professors Reinhard Maurer, Scott Habershon, Tim Bugg, and Sébastien Perrier, have been recognised for their contributions to Chemistry.

Wed 12 Jun 2024, 12:12 | Tags: news PolymerChem people MatPolymers ChemBio Research news CaTCh

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