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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

Dr Emily Clifford wins CAMWS First Book Award

Sun, 26 Apr 2026 16:10:34 GMT

Dr Emily Clifford, Assistant Professor of Classical Languages and Literature, has won the CAMWS (Classical Association of the Middle West and South) ‘First Book Award’ for her monograph Figuring Death in Classical Athens: Visual and Literary Encounters (OUP 2025).

New publication - An ash-chest in an English country-garden

Sun, 19 Oct 2025 17:18:29 GMT

New study of a Roman ash chest at Sissinghurst Castle, Kent.

New publication - Inscribing Flavian Rome: Epigraphic Strategies in Martial’s Epigrams by Alessandra Tafaro

Mon, 22 Sep 2025 07:44:01 GMT

Former PhD student at Warwick, Alessandra Tafaro is pleased to announce the publication of her monograph, derived from her PhD.

AI meets antiquity: Warwick ancient historian tests DeepMind’s transformative new model

Wed, 23 Jul 2025 15:07:50 GMT

Co-authoring a paper published in the world's leading multidisciplinary science journal Nature today, Alison Cooley, Professor of Classics and Ancient History at the University of Warwick, has played a key verification role in developing the first artificial intelligence (AI) model for contextualising ancient inscriptions.

New Omnibus article

Mon, 25 Mar 2024 09:02:45 GMT

'Augustus’ endless empire' by Alison Cooley just published in Omnibus 87, the magazine for schools

Classical Association Annual Conference 2024: Delegate Information

Wed, 28 Feb 2024 10:04:38 GMT

Full details for delegates, speakers, and chairs.

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.

Latest Material Musings article

Mon, 04 Dec 2023 11:22:50 GMT

This month on Material Musings blog, Dr Rocío Gordillo Hervás explores the significance of dress in religious ceremonies in an article entitled: 'Roman priesthood regalia: the bust-crown'.

You can read it here.