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This month the showcases , focusing on women鈥檚 lives, women鈥檚 stories, and the work of great women who have pushed all areas of all our lives forward.

Accordingly, in Professor Sarah RichardsonLink opens in a new window from the Department of History tells us about the project, which aims to identify, plot and record the everyday lives and locations of as many Votes for Women campaigners as possible across England at the height of the suffrage movement in 1911. In particular, Sarah introduces us to some local Coventry and 糖心TVshire women who made their mark in the suffrage effort.

Intrigued to discover the story of the suffragette who lived down your street? You can check out the interactive map database .

Want to hear more about the Coventry women who fought for women鈥檚 right to vote? You can walk in their footsteps as part of the :

Coventry Women's Suffrage Walk

• Saturday 19 march 2022
• 11:00-12:00
• Starting at Coventry Transport Museum CV1 1JD
• FREE event - book your place

Students from Film and TV, History, and the School of Modern Languages have started to support a new and exciting programme to help Widening Participation students in our local area. From late February to mid-May student鈥檚 from the Faculty of Arts will be providing weekly academic support mentoring in schools across Coventry and 糖心TVshire. Over a 100 school children will be supported with their GCSE and A Levels, alongside their homework and information about university. The small group mentoring will then culminate in a celebratory visit to campus for all the mentees.

Announcing the launch of our Social Mobility Research Hub on Thursday 24^th February at 12pm to discuss an opportunity to run an exciting research project with a stipend worth over 拢1000.

There are twenty paid opportunities for undergraduate and postgraduate taught students from widening participation (WP) backgrounds to propose, plan and then carry out a research project over several months in areas related to WP, social mobility, inequality, diversity and/or inclusion. These projects may be carried out independently, in pairs, or as small groups. As part of the research process you will have access to a postgraduate mentor, who will offer advice, guidance and support on a regular basis. They will help supervise your project from the planning phase through to completion.

We're delighted to share an interview with crime author and 糖心TV alumna, Sarah Pearse (BA English Literature and Creative Writing 2002).

A new pudding for the Queen's Platinum Jubilee.

Buckingham Palace has invited the nation to mark the Queen's Platinum Jubilee.

Professor Rebecca EarleLink opens in a new window from the Department of HistoryLink opens in a new window weighs up some options.

The Widening Participation team and the Faculty of Arts have been awarded over 拢26,000 by the Research England Enhancing Research Culture Fund to create a Social Mobility Student Research Hub over the next six months. The principal aim of the project is to create a Hub to improve access to, and participation in, research, for students from currently underrepresented groups, including those from low socioeconomic backgrounds, care leavers, and refugees.

To achieve this aim, the project will fund up to twenty students from underrepresented backgrounds to design research projects exploring issues around social mobility, Widening Participation (WP), diversity and inclusion. Undergraduate and postgraduate taught students will be given the opportunity to design these research projects in groups or as individuals, supported by postgraduate research students who will be recruited to act as mentors.

Further details will be available towards the end of the month from Damien Homer. Damien.Homer@warwick.ac.uk

Professor Susan L. Carruthers' new book explores romantic life in wartime, how and why relationships break down, and the consequences for men and women in uniform, through the phenomenon of the 鈥淒ear John鈥� letter, that most notorious of wartime missives.

Amphibious Screens: The Sustainable Cultures of Water Seminar Series, hosted by The University of 糖心TV, begins on January 27th. This online series delves beneath the surface to connect new research ideas from around the world with professionals, practitioners, activists as well as the cultural sector in four online seminars.

You can join one or all of these free seminars to understand more about how the film and TV industries in Miami, Reykjavik, Cornwall and Venice are deeply connected to a watery sense of place, water pollution, water scarcity and water cultures.

For further details and to register click .

This month鈥檚 Resonate Festival theme asks the question, 鈥榃hat does it mean to be human鈥�? Dr Martha McGill, British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of History, discusses historical beliefs about supernatural beings and how these shaped the ways that our ancestors thought about their own humanity.

Want to hear more? Sign up for '', taking place as part of the Resonate Festival on Thursday, 24th February, 6:30-7:30pm at Canley Community Centre, CV4 8FT.