We've teamed up with Warwick Sport to help you take an active break and to show exercises you can do anywhere, anytime to improve your wellbeing.

Join us and try pop-sports and deskercise!

All sessions are free and no booking is necessary. :)

To learn more about this and other Study Happy events, visit our Facebook page.

The lovely Pets As Therapy (PAT) dogs are here to help you cuddle away your stress!

Each slot will last for 12 minutes. Please book for a single time slot only as we want to make sure as many of you get a chance for a cuddle as possible.

The tickets will be released two weeks before the event.
Any extra spaces will be allocated at the door on a first come, first served basis.

For more information and to book your free ticket visit:  warwick.ac.uk/study-happy-events.

Chat with our team about Study Happy programme and meet other departments across the university who work with students.
Biscuits and freebies included! :)

Meet new friends over coffee & biscuits and practice your conversational language skills!

Let us know on Facebook which languages you would like to practise!

Tuesday evenings, weeks 1, 3, 5, 7 & 9 in Rootes Learning Grid.

Mindfulness practice is one of the 5 ways to wellbeing recommended by the NHS. Doing regular mindfulness exercises can help manage daily stress and has impact areas of the brain related to memory retrieval, decision making, and outward attention.

Our free weekly workshops are a great way to try different mindfulness techniques if you are a beginner, and find dedicated space and time for regular practice.

No booking necessary, open to all students at the University of Warwick. If would like to learn more about mindfulness practice, visit: Mindful Library

To learn more about this and other Study Happy events, see our Facebook page.

Join us in PG Hub 1 & 2 for some traditional East Asian and South-East Asian games and crafts, such as Mahjong, Chinese Checkers, Gobang, Ddakji and calligraphy - plus, we will have a selection of snacks and light refreshments.

In collaboration with Warwick Arts Centre, the Study Happy Team are organising a Lunar New Year celebration, welcoming the Year of Rat. :)

This is a chance to meet fellow students, have some festive nibbles and try different craft activities:
* Calligraphy
* Paper lantern and fortune cookie making
* Chinese checkers
* Ddakji and tangram

This event will take place in the Seminar Room and everyone is welcome to join us!

Chat with our team about Study Happy programme and meet other departments across the university who work with students.
Biscuits and freebies included! :)

Mindfulness practice is one of the 5 ways to wellbeing recommended by the NHS. Doing regular mindfulness exercises can help manage daily stress and has impact areas of the brain related to memory retrieval, decision making, and outward attention.

Our free weekly workshops are a great way to try different mindfulness techniques if you are a beginner, and find dedicated space and time for regular practice.

No booking necessary, open to all students at the University of Warwick. If would like to learn more about mindfulness practice, visit: Mindful Library

To learn more about this and other Study Happy events, see our Facebook page.

Phones are great at keeping us connected with the world, but can also be an unwanted distraction when you're trying to finish an essay or a reading. If you struggle to put your phone away and focus, this event is perfect for you.

We'll provide space and refreshments, and all you need to do is bring your study materials.
To register your space for one or more slots visit warwick.ac.uk/study-happy-events.

Switch the phones off and get some work done!

Want to write? Not sure how to start? What forms are best for your topic? Feeling uncertain about the best ways to plan your writing?

Come along to the Creative Writing Group and work alongside supportive peers to enhance your skills, find your voice and improve your writing, both fiction and non-fiction.

All postgrad students welcome!

We've teamed up with Warwick Sport to help you take an active break and to show exercises you can do anywhere, anytime to improve your wellbeing.

Join us and try pop-sports and deskercise!

All sessions are free and no booking is necessary. :)

To learn more about this and other Study Happy events, visit our Facebook page.

Phones are great at keeping us connected with the world, but can also be an unwanted distraction when you're trying to finish an essay or a reading. If you struggle to put your phone away and focus, this event is perfect for you.

We'll provide space and refreshments, and all you need to do is bring your study materials.
To register your space for one or more slots visit warwick.ac.uk/study-happy-events.

Switch the phones off and get some work done!

Chat with our team about Study Happy programme and meet other departments across the university who work with students.
Biscuits and freebies included! :)

Meet new friends over coffee & biscuits and practice your conversational language skills!

Let us know on Facebook which languages you would like to practise!

Tuesday evenings, weeks 1, 3, 5, 7 & 9 in Rootes Learning Grid.

Mindfulness practice is one of the 5 ways to wellbeing recommended by the NHS. Doing regular mindfulness exercises can help manage daily stress and has impact areas of the brain related to memory retrieval, decision making, and outward attention.

Our free weekly workshops are a great way to try different mindfulness techniques if you are a beginner, and find dedicated space and time for regular practice.

No booking necessary, open to all students at the University of Warwick. If would like to learn more about mindfulness practice, visit: Mindful Library

To learn more about this and other Study Happy events, see our Facebook page.

A two part session for staff and students in the arts and humanities.

Hosted by the Library Academic Support Librarians, Digital Art Lab (DAL) and Academic Technology, ITS with external speakers Christ Houghton and Joanne Richardson from Gale.

Part 1: Eighteenth Century Collections Online (ECCO) and other Gale Primary Source collections

Find out how to access this and other contemporary, early modern to modern period and newspapers/periodical resources through Gale Primary Sources.

Part 2: Digital Humanities tools and methodologies for working with texts

Explore how digital humanities tools and methodologies can be used with these primary sources, and their application to teaching and research.

Bring your own device with a browser to get hands on in the session. Visit the webpage for more information and to register

Explore your sensory profile at interactive stations, win prizes, and take a break with free refreshments.

No bookings are required and all students are welcome! :)

We've teamed up with the Creative Learning Team from Warwick Arts Centre to bring some colour in your Library life!

Join us and try different relaxing, creative activities. All the materials are free and we'll also provide refreshments on the day. :)

All students are welcome!

To learn more about this and other Study Happy events, visit our Facebook page.

Chat with our team about Study Happy programme and meet other departments across the university who work with students.
Biscuits and freebies included! :)

Yvette Hutchison

While teaching and researching in Theatre & Performance Studies, I am struck by how much and what kinds of knowledge are created and disseminated in and through bodies, alongside discussion (written and oral) to produce discourse invisibly, in unnoticed ways. Since the #Rhodesmustfall movement in South Africa (cf. Garman, 2018), which extended to Oxford in the UK (cf. Williams, 2017), and the University of Amsterdam’s student occupation in 2015, we are seeing increasing student and academic engagements with decolonising curricula (see Baker, 2017; de Jong, Icaza, Vázquez and Withaeckx, 2017; Robbins, 2017). So, how does one undertake decolonising an education system when, as M. Jacqui Alexander argues, ‘the epistemologies, systems and knowledges [that empires] it created continue to define and haunt us (2005, 1). If, as Parker, et al. have argued, these epistemologies render any ‘university as a colonising space that is simultaneously a site for revolutionary transformation’ (2017:234), then this is where we need to start – by critiquing what is taught and how at universities with our students, as these processes define what can/not be known, discussed and practiced.

Parker, et al have suggested that we need to

(a) practise radical openness [bell hooks]: be teachers that are guided by the students’ experiences in the academy;

(b) interrogate research [and teaching] norms as critical sites of entrenched colonising practices; and

(c) create spaces that foster the co-production of knowledge. (Ibid., 235)

In this workshop I am going to share ways in which I use figuration (allegorical representation) and embodied learning to facilitate the active co-production of knowledge with students.

I am going to ask: How can we be open to empire ‘writing back’ (Ashcroft, Griffiths, & Tiffin, 2003), while avoiding falling into the trap noted here:

‘when students of colour, women, or people from the Global South go to graduate school [or university] and begin the path of writing back and decolonising knowledge production, that implicit otherness is often reinscribed upon their bodies and used to discount their lived experience, their words, and their research.’ (Parker, et al., 2017:234)?

Book your place

Mindfulness practice is one of the 5 ways to wellbeing recommended by the NHS. Doing regular mindfulness exercises can help manage daily stress and has impact areas of the brain related to memory retrieval, decision making, and outward attention.

Our free weekly workshops are a great way to try different mindfulness techniques if you are a beginner, and find dedicated space and time for regular practice.

No booking necessary, open to all students at the University of Warwick. If would like to learn more about mindfulness practice, visit: Mindful Library

To learn more about this and other Study Happy events, see our Facebook page.

To celebrate LGBTUA+ history month join the Library and Wikimedia UK to improve the representation of LGBTUA+ individuals, cultures and events by learning how to create and edit Wikipedia pages.

Staff and students are welcome to attend!

For more information and to register your attendance visit our Moodle sign up page.

For any questions please email Library@warwick.ac.uk

Alongside our usual weekly Wellbeing Hour, join us for some mindful craft activities to help you take a break, along with the usual tea, coffee and fruit!

The switch between teaching responsibilities and research can be hard at times during the PhD process. This workshop is designed for PhD students who are starting to teach or currently teaching. In this session we will share different experiences, exchange tips, and identify potential strategies to manage your time and balance your workload.

Want to write? Not sure how to start? What forms are best for your topic? Feeling uncertain about the best ways to plan your writing?

Come along to the Creative Writing Group and work alongside supportive peers to enhance your skills, find your voice and improve your writing, both fiction and non-fiction.

All postgrad students welcome!

We've teamed up with Warwick Sport to help you take an active break and to show exercises you can do anywhere, anytime to improve your wellbeing.

Join us and try pop-sports and deskercise!

All sessions are free and no booking is necessary. :)

To learn more about this and other Study Happy events, visit our Facebook page.

Phones are great at keeping us connected with the world, but can also be an unwanted distraction when you're trying to finish an essay or a reading. If you struggle to put your phone away and focus, this event is perfect for you.

We'll provide space and refreshments, and all you need to do is bring your study materials.
To register your space for one or more slots visit warwick.ac.uk/study-happy-events.

Switch the phones off and get some work done!

Chat with our team about Study Happy programme and meet other departments across the university who work with students.
Biscuits and freebies included! :)

Meet new friends over coffee & biscuits and practice your conversational language skills!

Let us know on Facebook which languages you would like to practise!

Tuesday evenings, weeks 1, 3, 5, 7 & 9 in Rootes Learning Grid.