Research Opportunities

"We are interested in hearing from students who would like to do a URSS project related the Society and Culture Interdisciplinary Spotlight. See Society & Culture | Research at Warwick

We are hoping to start a strand of work around the civic university and the role of the university in the local/regional area."

We would like to support students to carry out research projects on topics relating to widening participation, social mobility, diversity, inclusion, and inequalities. For more information on potential projects, please visit our student projects page or email Dr Ellis Ryan.

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Working on the Mapping Women’s Suffrage project is an opportunity to identify, research, and map the lives and materials of ordinary women and men that fought for women’s right to vote in villages, towns and cities across the country. It offers a diverse range of ways for you to share your work with the public whether through the online map, blogs/vlogs, social media, local walks, or talks and presentations. It can also help spark conversations about women and girls in politics today.

For more information see the website or email Tara Morton.

The URSS project would be available to up to 3 people and it would examine methods for strengthening legal and regulatory systems to tackle greenwashing. The studies will focus on improving oversight of environmental marketing claims, exploring modifications to UK trade mark registration procedures, and applying behavioural economics principles to identify and counter greenwashing activities. The research will incorporate analysis of contemporary legislation such as the Digital Markets, Competition and Consumers Act 2024, current trade mark legislation under the Trade Marks Act 1994, and developing European Union proposals including the draft Directive on Green Claim

"I work mostly developing mathematical resilience for those who experience maths anxiety – to reinclude them in maths. This has extended to Second Language anxiety and presentation anxiety. I’d be interested to talk with any student who would like to explore this further."

The LaleoLab board game was designed and patented by Italian researchers with the aim of building students’ critical awareness of gender stereotypes and roles, helping them to recognise the influence that gender has on their educational choices and professional aspirations. Due to the success of the LaleoLab game in Italy, we have translated and adapted it into English.

We welcome research proposals to test the adaptation of the game for public engagement, for example in a summer programme libraries. More information of the board game and how it looks like may be found here:https://linktr.ee/laleolab

In your work, you will be supported by a team that includes one of the creators of the original game: Ninna Makrinov (Assistant Professor in Research Methods at WMG), David Reynolds (Assistant Professor in Digital Marketing at WMG), Dr Andreana Pastena (Assistant Lecturer in English Studies at the Universitat de les Illes Balears (Spain) and an Honorary Fellow at Warwick’s IAS), and Dr Sara Parisi (Teaching Fellow in Italian Studies at the University of Warwick). Please contact us by email to explore your research ideas.