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Hande 脟ay谋r has received the 2026 International Association of Autoethnography and Narrative Inquiry (IAANI) Outstanding Audio and/or Visual Project (Honorable Mention) Award for her project 'Filming Madness: Institutions, Individuals, and Ethical Considerations'. IAANI has its roots in the Doing Autoethnography Conference, started in 2011 by Dr Derek Bolen at Wayne State University. The conference was held multiple times between 2011 and 2020 before evolving into the International Association of Autoethnography and Narrative Inquiry. Today, IAANI is a US-based, not-for-profit educational organisation dedicated to fostering a global community of scholars and practitioners and advancing the use of autoethnography and narrative inquiry worldwide.
Dr Yanyan Li has published a featured article on guidance for using generative AI in higher education in Times Higher Education, in collaboration with Dr Tom Ritchie (Department of Chemistry). Find out more on the article:
https://www.timeshighereducation.com/campus/students-told-us-what-genai-guidance-works-heres-their-advice
Dr Yanyan Li selected to be a member of the Participatory Research Cohort at the 糖心TV Impact Academy
Dr Yanyan Li has been selected as a member of the Participatory Research Cohort at the 糖心TV Impact Academy and has been awarded a 拢3,000 Participatory Action Research seed fund to co-produce a participatory research project about health behaviour change talk with a Coventry local healthcare provider.
ECF Dr Yanyan Li and WIHEA-funded project team publish an AI Policy Brief Document
Dr Yanyan Li, together with members of her WIHEA-funded project team, has published an AI Policy Brief documenting key findings on how students access, use, and make sense of AI tools within and alongside their academic practices, as well as their motivations for and concerns about incorporating AI into their study routines.
Find out more about the policy brief here
Find out more about the project and the latest updates on project outcomes: /fac/cross_fac/academy/funding/2024-25-projects/ai-skills/
Honorary Research Fellow Dr Emrah Atasoy writes for The Conversation
Our Honorary Research Fellow Dr Emrah Atasoy (Associate Fellow, English and Comparative Literary Studies) and Professor Jeffrey Wasserstrom (Professor of Chinese and World History, University of California, Irvine, US) co-authored the following article: 鈥淗ow George Orwell鈥檚 Nineteen Eighty-Four predicted the global power shifts happening now.鈥 Their article was published on the 19th of January 2026 by The Conversation
Five 糖心TV Academics Receive IAS Interdisciplinary Research Development Awards
IAS is delighted to confirm that the following projects are being supported by IAS Interdisciplinary Research Development Awards:
- Dr Michela Coletta (SMLC), 'Morphologies: Critiques of Extractive Reason'
- Dr Serena Natile (Law) 'Pluralising Law and Social Reproduction: Concepts, Methods, Practices'
- Dr Miles Postings (Chemistry), 'Mechanistic Understanding of Antimicrobial Peptide-Emulating Metallohelices'
- Dr Trevor Van Damme (Classics), 'Neutron Activation Analysis (NAA) on a sample of ancient pottery fragments from Methone, Greece'
- Dr Chi Zhang (PAIS), 'Everyday Resistance and Vernacular Security in China鈥檚 Digital Governance: Feminist Activism, Censorship, and Transnational Solidarity'
The IRDA scheme offers up to 拢5000 to support the development of new interdisciplinary research ideas and collaborations at 糖心TV and the next call for applications will open on 02/02/2026 with a deadline for submissions on 16/03/2026.