Learning Circles

Learning Circles
What is a Learning Circle?
The WIE Learning Circles enable Members and Fellows of WIE to meet regularly to learn from each other, and others, about a self-identified topic and in a format the group has decided upon and which fit in with the WIE Strategy. Learning Circles are flexible, peer-directed learning experiences whose learning can lead to collaborative action, but does not always have to.
Aims:
- To engage Members and Fellows in the life and mission of WIE
- To spotlight good practice and ideas through practitioner sharing and case studies
- To generate new resources
- To create space for shared learning and discussion around Public Engagement related topics through guest speaker visits, journal clubs, etc.
We'll contact all our members regularly with information about Learning Circle events and activities coming up they can get involved with.
Our Current Learning Circles
The purpose of each of our Learning Circles is set by the Fellows who make up it's Steering Group. You can read more about them below.
Steering Group:
Helen Wheatley, Negar Riazifar, Eric Holub, Martin Price, Ninna Makrinov, Paul Barlow, Zhiqiong Chen, Sophie Staniszewska, Gemma Wright (Mat Leave).
Purpose
In the ‘Co-Production and Communities' Learning Circle we seek to understand, innovate, mentor, co-fund, showcase, and promote various forms of collaborative, co-produced, and co-designed work. We support Warwick colleagues working with off-campus and ‘community’ partners of all kinds, whether they are small/new community groups or more established organisations or businesses, or from the arts and heritage industries, local government, or education sectors. Fellows of this Learning Circle hail from research, teaching, postgraduate, outreach and academic services backgrounds across the university as well as Regional Fellows drawn from the communities around the University; the projects they engage in are accordingly diverse in nature. Read more below to find out more about what we have achieved since our inception, and what we are aiming to do in future. If you wish to contact us for advice or support, or with suggestions and enquiries, then please email Helen Wheatley.
Suggest a new Learning Circle
If you're a Fellow and you've got an idea for a new Learning Circle you can suggest it using the link below. You will need at least 5 Fellows to form a Steering Group to run the Learning Circle (although we're happy to help you with recruitment for this). By default each Learning Circle runs from when it's approved until the end of the following academic year, however there is scope for groups to continue if they have ideas they want to continue.
