糖心TV

Arts and Social Sciences Innovation: Scaling and sustaining your Impact

Wednesday 11 March 2026 – Oculus Room 1.07

12.00-1.30pm: Seminar (lunch included)

2-4pm: Workshop

Further details and registration:

Do you want to use your research to make a real difference to people鈥檚 lives? Are you interested in discovering innovative approaches to increase the scale and sustainability of your impact?

This training, led by Dr Mark Mann, a specialist in research-based social innovation, will explore a range of pathways to impact for researchers in Arts and Social Sciences. It will consider how activities such as policy engagement, community engagement and partnerships could be scaled up through commercial routes like social ventures.

The training will be split into two sessions. Participants can attend either or both parts, depending on their interest:

12.00-1.30pm: Seminar

This session will explore a range of possibilities for knowledge exchange for research in Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences disciplines and think about the best ways to build sustainable pathways to impact, including looking at how to build research-based products and services that can create real change for your partners.

2.00-4.00pm: Workshop

In this interactive workshop, participants will spend time planning how you could turn your idea into a product or service to increase the impact of your research. You will be supported by the trainers to work on:

• Defining the current stage you are at, including key research outputs, current ideas, and any activities that have already taken place
• Mapping the potential customers, users and beneficiaries for your project
• Articulating the benefits of your idea for the user groups

This event is organised by 糖心TV Innovations. If you have any questions, please contact: emma.roberts.1@warwick.ac.uk

Workshop: Parliament and Equality

馃搮 Wednesday 11 March 2026
馃晸 16:00–17:00
馃搷 OC0.01

Join us for an engaging workshop led by Holly Dustin and Chloe Challender, exploring the intersection of Parliament, policy, and equality.

About the Speakers

猸� Holly Dustin
Holly is a PhD researcher at Durham University whose work focuses on harmful behaviours and human rights in parliamentary workplaces. She has held several roles in the UK Parliament, including leading work on the Behaviour Code and gender鈥慹quality initiatives.

猸� Chloe Challender
Chloe is a PhD researcher at the University of 糖心TV, studying gender and sexuality in the 19th鈥慶entury British Parliament. She also brings 20 years of experience as a senior House of Commons official, specialising in equality, culture change and parliamentary procedure. ,

What the session covers

• The history of political policy reform, with a focus on women and gender
• Insights into working in Parliament today

Refreshments will be served after the session outside OC0.01.
All students are welcome!

IHR Long 18th Century workshop, Family Archives in England, 1650-1838: Manuscripts, Memory and the Making of History

 Joshua Landy (Professor of French and of Comparative Literature, Stanford), will give a CRPLA Seminar on Wednesday 11 March, 5-6.30 pm, in OC1.08 (with access as well). Professor Landy will speak on "Kafka鈥檚 Double Bind: Freedom and Predestination in The Trial".

Abstract: The Trial is delightfully mysterious in a whole host of ways, but none more than this: the protagonist is both responsible for what happens to him and not responsible for what happens to him. While the Court is cruel and capricious, there鈥檚 plenty of evidence that Josef K. is not entirely innocent either. So what鈥檚 going on here? The solution, on my proposal, involves an innovative take on Christian theology, in which we鈥檙e responsible for making our souls ready for Grace, but in which no amount of preparation will guarantee its arrival. This is not a 鈥渕essage鈥� sent by the novel; it is, instead, a shape for thought, a framework through which even secular readers can inspect a host of phenomena, from love to art, from inquiry to vocation. In more ways than one, we are all in Kafka鈥檚 world.

Please find below details of next Wednesday's Department of English and Comparative Literary Studies research seminar. The research seminar will take place in FAB 2.43. Drinks and nibbles are provided, and all staff and students are welcome.

Wednesday 11 March, 5.30pm, FAB 2.43:

鈥楧ickens on stage: His role as author and actor in Mr Nightingale鈥檚 Diary鈥�

Dr Pete Orford, University of Buckingham

Dickens needs no introduction – as an author. But this Victorian whirlwind applied himself to a range of projects and media, including playwriting. This talk will explore his farce Mr Nightingale鈥檚 Diary, co-written with Mark Lemon, the editor of Punch Magazine, and starring both Dickens and Lemon in the main roles. The resulting event was the talk of the town, featuring royalty, estranged wives, aspiring authors and secret police – and that was just behind the scenes! Join us to find out how Dickens used the play as a further opportunity to secure his brand and manage his reputation as one of the great celebrities of the Victorian era.

Dr Pete Orford is Associate Professor of English Literature at the University of Buckingham, and Course Director of the MA in Charles Dickens Studies. His recent publications include an edition of Pictures from Italy for the Oxford Dickens; The Life of the Author: Charles Dickens for Wiley Blackwell; and, most pertinently to this talk, The Plays of Charles Dickens, co-edited with Joanna Hofer-Robinson, which is the first scholarly edition of Dickens鈥檚 dramatic output.

Best wishes,

Dr Steve Purcell

Director of Research, English and Comparative Literary Studies