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Using GIS Storymaps in Research

Wed, 06 May 2026 10:10:39 GMT

This workshop will look at the ways GIS can be used in research within the Humanities and Social Sciences.

Dr Godwin Yeboah (Senior Software Engineer, Research Computing) will give a presentation on the possibilities GIS offers for use in research, then Dr Christina Williamson (University of Groningen, IAS Visiting Fellow) will presnt on her use of GIS Storymaps in her research on Deep Mapping Sanctuaries

The workshop will conclude with refreshments and time for informal discussions.

Please sign up on the form below.

Major Wellcome Trust Discovery Award win

Sun, 26 Apr 2026 16:16:50 GMT

Prof. Simon Swain, Prof. Caroline Petit, and Dr Uwe Vagelpohl have won a Wellcome Trust Discovery Award for their project Liquid Knowledge. The rise of uroscopy in medieval Byzantine and Arabic medicine

Upcoming Lectures on Seneca by Victoria Rimell

Mon, 05 Feb 2024 12:10:00 GMT

Lectures relating to Leverhulme Research Fellowship project, Care of the Other: Seneca and the Work of Mourning.

Doctoral Study for 2023/24 Entry

Mon, 23 Oct 2023 12:55:00 GMT

Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellowships 2023

Sun, 04 Jun 2023 19:49:36 GMT

WCN awarded WIE Collaboration and Co-production fund to develop relationship with Warwickshire Museums

Mon, 13 Dec 2021 18:04:37 GMT

The WCN are proud to announce that Dr Grigsby has secured £3000 from the WIE to undertake a project to strengthen the relationship between the Dept of Classics and Warwickshire Museum. The money will be used to develop an engagement project on the Roman coin hoards displayed at Market Hall Museum.

New book on Galen's Treatise On Simple Drugs

Wed, 24 Feb 2021 10:50:00 GMT

A special issue of Archives Internationales d'Histoire des Sciences on the interpretation and transmission of Galen's treatise On simple drugs. Guest editors: Caroline Petit (Warwick), Matteo Martelli (Bologna), Lucia Raggetti (Bologna).

The volume explores the fate of Greek text across time, languages and cultures. It arises from a BA-Leverhulme-funded project, 'Rethinking Ancient Pharmacology' and a conference at the BSR in 2017.

Congratulations to Dr Caroline Petit!

Thu, 21 Jan 2021 12:01:00 GMT

We are delighted to announce that Dr Caroline Petit has been awarded the prestigious Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel Research Award from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation in Germany.

The award recognises Dr Petit’s excellent academic achievements, and she will be invited to carry out a new research project of her choosing in collaboration with colleagues in Germany.

Dr Petit’s research interests lie in the textual transmission, translation and interpretation of ancient medical texts. This includes the many ways they have been appropriated up to modern times.

Her recent projects include ‘Medical Prognosis in Late Antiquity’ (Wellcome Trust University Award, 2013-2018) and ‘Rethinking Ancient Pharmacology' (British Academy - Leverhulme 2017-2019).

In 2019 she was awarded the prestigious Médaille de Chénier by the French Académie des Inscriptions et des Belles Lettres for her recent book on the Greek physician and philosopher Galen of Pergamum (Galien de Pergame ou la rhétorique de la Providence. Médecine, littérature et pouvoir à Rome, Brill 2018). This medal is a distinction awarded only to one scholar every five years in recognition of outstanding scholarship in ancient Greek.

Find out more about Dr Petit’s research.

PG Open Day on Wednesday 2 December

Mon, 23 Nov 2020 16:53:00 GMT

A PG Open Day for PhD and MA studies will take place on Wednesday 2 December.

Congratulations to Joe Sanzo, awarded a European Research Council Starting Grant!

Wed, 04 Sep 2019 17:01:17 GMT

Dr Sanzo said: “Although scholarly study of the early Jewish and Christian practices, rituals, and texts deemed “magical” has blossomed over the past few decades, this research has tended to be divided along disciplinary lines, with historians of Judaism studying Jewish magic and historians of Christianity studying Christian magic.

“This grant will allow an interdisciplinary team to address this scholarly gap by examining local and global features of the magical artefacts – and the literary traditions about magic – from late-antique Jewish and Christian communities. In particular, my project will focus on the similarities, differences, and contacts between these traditions in four central areas of their magical practices: biblical texts and traditions; sacred names and titles; the word-image-material relation; and references to illicit rituals.”