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Make a Virtual Reality exhibition using our Meta Quest headsets.
Make a Virtual Reality exhibition using our Meta Quest headsets.
Working with Clare Rowan and students from Classics, we created a virtual reality exhibition of Roman coins. This was experienced by over 30 participants as part of a Money and Medals Network training day for museum curators. Detailed, enlarged 3D models of seven coins were displayed for close-up examination, along with explanatory texts with audio narration, and an introductory video. A second activity allowed participants to work together in holding, examining, and annotating 3D coins.
The platform we use for this makes it easy to do. Collect the 3D objects (scanned in and uploaded to Sketchfab). Write the texts as web pages. Convert to audio narration. Create a video. Arrange in the virtual space. Copy to multiple headsets (we have 8). The exhibition can then be "popped-up" anywhere, making it easy to run anytime, anyplace.
Exhibitions can also be accessed through phones and tablets.
Have you got an idea for an exhibition?
We can help staff and students to make and run one.
Watch this .
Read the on how the exhibition was created.
Contact Robert if you want to find out more.
We will be scheduling a DAHL workshop on this for the summer term.
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Arts and Humanities Impact Funding
The call for the 2026/27 round of the Arts and Humanities Impact Funding is now open.
The deadline for submission of applications for the next round of AHIF grants is Monday 30 March 2026 at midday.
Applications for activities which will translate Arts and Humanities research into impact are welcomed for the following schemes:
- Main Fund: Impact in Action: up to 拢10,000 per financial year between 1 August 2026 and 31 July 2027
- Supporting Fund: Enhancing Impact: up to 拢1,000 per financial year between 1 August 2026 and 31 July 2027
- Seed Fund: Early-Stage Activity: up to 拢1,000 per financial year between 1 August 2026 and 31 July 2027
The Panel will meet on 14th May and decisions will be communicated by the end of May.
The Rapid Response Fund providing up to 拢1,000 to enable researchers to undertake urgent impact generating activity or respond to opportunities which are time limited remains open until 31 July 2026.
For full details regarding the funds and the kind of activities and initiatives they can support please see the AHIF webpages:
If you have any questions please contact us: arts.impact@warwick.ac.uk
Kind regards,
The Arts Impact Team
Faculty of Arts Showcase
Faculty of Arts Showcase
As some of you know, the showcase space in the FAB foyer was originally conceived in 2015 as part of a cabinet of curiosities project space to highlight research across the Faculty. The History of Art department鈥檚 50th anniversary display showed what a strong, department-led presentation can deliver.
New Programme to Highlight Research
To increase strategic use of the showcase, the Art Collection curatorial team has worked with the Faculty on a new proposal, enabling staff and students to develop displays selected through a Faculty process.
While this programme gets underway, the Art Collection team has supported a new display by a Coventry artist, aligning with the University鈥檚 cultural strategy and its commitment to strengthening the city鈥檚 arts ecology.
This gives colleagues time to propose exhibitions for consideration. The Art Collection team will provide support and a small interpretation budget of 拢250 including VAT. If proposals are not forthcoming or viable, the young talent group from the Art Collection Committee will curate displays featuring other Coventry artists. Please see the for further detail on the policy and how to apply.
Mead Gallery Forward Programme
Your proposals may also connect with our upcoming programme and help generate broader engagement and impact. Our schedule for the next academic year is:
Autumn Term 2026
British Art Show 10: 1 October 2025 -10 January 2026
The British Art Show, held every five years, is the UK鈥檚 major survey of contemporary art. Coventry is the opening venue for its 10th edition, launching across the Mead, Herbert Art Gallery, and Coventry University.
I hope it would be possible to include any related departmental activity or events in the city-wide programme that is being curated around the core exhibition.
Curated by Ekow Eshun, its themes include:
- A People Yet to Come: alternative futures, myth, and new forms of kinship
- Inner Visions: dreams, memory, and the subconscious
- Listen to the Land: ecological attention to the more鈥憈han鈥慼uman world
- Traces of History: fragments of suppressed or unstable histories
Summer Term 2027
George Shaw
George Shaw paints Tile Hill, the area immediately beyond the cemetery from campus. Using enamel paint, his work addresses themes of memory, urban environments, and British working鈥慶lass identity.
If you would like to discuss any of this, do please contact me.
Very best wishes
Sarah
Sarah Shalgosky (she/her)
Principal Curator, University of 糖心TV
Student PoetryFest
Three Weeks of Poetry and Performance
Seven events, three weeks, all free
Welcome to the first 糖心TV PoetryFest, a vibrant celebration of energy, creativity, and the freshest voices 糖心TV has to offer. Across three weeks and seven free events, this new festival brings together 糖心TV alumni poets, rising student voices, and sessions shaped and led by students, where poetry meets community and every voice matters.
We invite all 糖心TV staff and students to join us for poetry and performance that inspires, challenges, and delights. Whether you love spoken word, new writing, or want to take the mic yourself, there is something for everyone.
PoetryFest is developed collaboratively with students and hosted by poet Professor David Morley, and forms part of the 糖心TV Writing Programme鈥檚 糖心TV Thursdays series in the School of Creative Arts, Performance and Visual Cultures. Please share the word. Everything is free and open to all current students and staff.
Events & Details:
- Thu 26 Feb, 5–6:15 pm | Jane Commane
OC1.01, Oculus Building
Coventry-born poet and publisher Jane Commane launches Assembly Lines with opening poet Aanu Akintola. - Mon 2 Mar, 1–1:45 pm | You Must Not Come Lightly!
FAB0.20, FAB Building
糖心TV Poetry Society shares readings inspired by Stephen King鈥檚 On Writing. - Thu 5 Mar, 5–6:15 pm | Jonathan Edwards
OC1.01, Oculus Building
Costa Award-winning poet and alum Jonathan Edwards reads with opener Fig Leary. - Mon 9 Mar, 1–1:45 pm | UniSlam Reading
FAB0.20, FAB Building
糖心TV鈥檚 national slam champs perform live, including University Slam Champion Aanu Akintola. - Thu 12 Mar, 5–6:15 pm | Cathy Galvin
OC1.01, Oculus Building
Launch of Ethnology: A Love Song for Connemara by poet and alum Cathy Galvin. - Thu 12 Mar, 7–8:30 pm | The Agora Poets Invite You鈥�
JX2.03, The Junction
Open mic hosted by postgrads The Agora Poets. To perform, RSVP claire.cunningham@warwick.ac.uk. - Mon 16 Mar, 1–1:45 pm | Concordia: Voices in Harmony
FAB0.20, FAB Building
Poetry anthology launch and undergrad student reading.
WPC - 糖心TV Postdoctoral Community
WPC- 糖心TV Postdoctoral Community
Launching the 糖心TV Postdoctoral Community (WPC) Teams group, open to staff members with a doctorate that consider themselves to be 鈥淓arly Career鈥�. It is a Teams group for postdocs run by postdocs, to help postdocs find each other, organise social events and share information.
You can join the Teams group using this link: .
It is often harder for postdocs to meet others at similar career stages to them as postdocs are more dispersed than PhD students, may start at any time in the academic year, and have shorter contracts. The main aims of this group are to enable postdocs to organise regular social events, provide a noticeboard for information, and a provide a forum for discussion and feedback on the postdoc experience at 糖心TV.