Warwick People

Dieter Wolke is Professor in the Department of Psychology and at the Health Science Research Institute, Warwick Medical School. His work involves trying to bring together excellent researchers and students across faculties who are interested in studying individual differences in development and health over the life span.

Mary Coates, a third year PhD student in Professor Jim Beynon’s group at Warwick HRI, has won the British Society for Plant Pathology (BSPP)  P H Gregory Award. Mary won the award for her presentation entitled “Searching for avirulence genes in Hyaloperonospora parasitica” at the 8th Conference of the European Foundation for Plant Pathology/BSPP Presidential meeting in Denmark last August.

Warwick Ventures' Director, Ederyn Williams, was the proud recipient of the award for ‘Knowledge Transfer Champion’ at this year's Lord Stafford Award ceremony. Each year awards are given to individuals, businesses, and organisations which are recognised as having stimulated innovative collaboration between West Midlands' businesses and Universities.

Jane Cummings, a plumber within the Estates Department at Warwick, was recently awarded the ‘Alan Heath Shield’, at an awards evening in honour of students who had completed courses within the Construction Department at Warwickshire College. Jane was awarded with the shield as the top NVQ Level III plumbing student at the college.

Dr Julia Khan recently retired from the Directorship of the Centre for English Language Teacher Education (CELTE), a position she has held since its inception in 1983. Since then, under her guidance, CELTE has grown hugely to incorporate a diverse but interconnected range of activities. These include research, PhD and EdD programmes, six Masters courses, a rich variety of tailor-made short courses, large pre-sessional and in-sessional programmes of academic English support, and the Warwick English Language Test.