Expression of Interest Form
Postgraduate Researchers and Early Career Researchers are invited to submit a 250 word expression of interest by Wednesday 13th May 2026
This year鈥檚 creative writing competition centres on the theme of crisis. We welcome submissions from any subject area or discipline that explore 鈥榗risis鈥� across society and culture, understood in the broadest possible terms.
Participants may wish to respond to the following provocations:
- Is there a crisis in relation to the topics or subject areas that I am engaged with? What does this look like?
- How should we understand crisis in the contemporary world?
- What counts as a crisis - and how do we recognise it?
- Are there alternatives to the 鈥榗risis鈥� narrative that we should be focusing on?
We encourage contributions that explore how crises are understood, experienced, and addressed. Topics might include (but are not limited to): climate and environmental crisis; political instability and democratic strain; economic inequality; public health; migration and displacement; technological development and disruption; or crises within knowledge itself, including challenges facing higher education or different academic disciplines.
What does it mean to recognise a crisis - and what forms of knowledge shape that recognition? Can research and knowledge still offer ways of understanding or responding to the conditions we face? Are there hopeful ways of thinking about 鈥榗risis鈥�?
The Society & Culture Spotlight provides a space to explore and develop new perspectives on knowledge in times of crisis.
This form will close at 12:00 on Wednesday 13th May 2026.
Submissions will be reviewed by the Society & Culture Spotlight Leadership Team.
If you have any queries around this application, please contact davide.piaggio@warwick.ac.uk.