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Winners of the HRC Doctoral Fellowship Competition

Thu, 23 Apr 2026 23:00:00 GMT

Congratulations to:

Aidan Diable (History) / Adam Coleman (History of Art) - Pride and Place: Negotiating Self, Civic, and National Identities in Space

Jade Lindo (History) - Empire’s Fruit: Colonial Ecologies, Food Systems, and Imperial Power

Francesca Luppino (SMLC) - Say a Body where None. Necromanticism and Thanatologial Imagination of the Afterlife in the Modern and Contemporary Age (1764-2027)

(Neo)Colonial Images and Literature: The Construction of the Other - Registration now open

Wed, 22 Apr 2026 14:50:31 GMT

Women, Power and Money - Registration now open

Wed, 01 Apr 2026 14:37:00 GMT

Student Opportunity! Workshop & contemporary scratch performance with Fierce @ WAC

Fri, 27 Mar 2026 08:00:00 GMT

The ��TV Arts Centre and Fierce are looking for students interested in contemporary performance making who would be interested in taking part in a workshop directed by the artist, facilitator, performer and community worker Sym Stellium. They are a Birmingham-based movement artist whose work focuses on supporting and uplifting QTIPOC (queer, trans, intersex people of colour) communities.

When? The workshop will take place during the day on the 30th of May 2026 at the ��TV Arts Centre. Following the workshop, participants will present a scratch performance at the Mead Gallery. This will be a great opportunity to work alongside Sym Stellium, discover the Midlands’ artistic scene and get to experience Fierce’s work before the upcoming festival in October 2026! We will select 6 students for whom the workshop will be free, as will be the performance.

How? If you are interested, please complete the following google form by 1st of May. We will prioritise students with a strong interest in contemporary performance or live art and a wide range of forms, content, and performance strategies. We welcome expressions of interest from all ��TV UG and PGT/PGR students. Please do not hesitate to contact us at airelle@wearefierce.org if you have any other questions!

About Sym:

Sym explores the process of bringing knowing into consciousness, somatic expressions of the ethereal, and ways in which we begin to recognise and reconfigure internalised colonial belief systems to leave room for furthering collectivity. Sym is currently a working group member of Building Our Own Knowledge (B.O.O.K), lead facilitator at UNMUTED, and former steering group member for Fierce Festival's Healing Gardens of Bab.

About Fierce:

Fierce is Birmingham’s cultivator of artists, audiences and contexts for contemporary performance, placing experimental, interdisciplinary, and queer voices centre stage. Fierce presents the internationally renowned biennial Fierce Festival; the previous edition was one of The Guardian’s best cultural events for Autumn 2024. We disrupt expectations of what art can be, who can make it, and where it can happen. The work we present can be outrageous with a punk or camp sensibility, or, equally, exquisite and sublime.

Over our 27-year history, we have cemented ourselves as one of the oldest and most important contemporary performance festivals in the country. The festival’s focus is primarily international, where 80% of the artists we present come from outside the UK. Fierce has a track-record of attracting young and diverse audiences, often selling out events. By locating art in a range of less traditional spaces (the club, shopping centres, on the street) we create multiple entry points for new audiences who may not feel comfortable attending more traditional arts venues. We juxtapose ‘high art’ with ‘popular culture’, legitimising a broad range of art-making practices in the process, inviting audiences to meet the work on their own terms, firmly believing all responses to artistic practice are valid.

We are looking forward to hearing from you!

All the best,

Airelle

Airelle Amédro (she/her)

PGR student, School of Modern Languages and Cultures, University of ��TV

/ Associate Producer, Fierce Festival

airelle@wearefierce.org

Bookings now live: Inclusive Education Festival 2026 - Thursday 21st May 2026

Wed, 25 Mar 2026 12:10:00 GMT

Dear all,

Bookings now live: Inclusive Education Festival 2026

We're pleased to invite you to book your place on the first joint-faculty Inclusive Education event on Thursday 21st May 2026 in The Oculus Building. This event is open to all staff and students, with particular relevance to those engaged in departmental inclusion and student experience project work.

This collaborative event will bring together people across all Faculties to share good practice, explore challenges and celebrate the inclusion work happening throughout the University. Department spotlight sessions will feature themes such as:

Mentoring and coaching
Supporting neurodiverse and disabled students
Embedding inclusive change
Transitions and academic support
Inclusive Assessment
Working with students as partners.

Interactive breakout workshops will also cover topics including:

Student engagement
Tackling Racial Inequality at ��TV
Using and analysing inclusion data
Understanding our student cohort.

It would be brilliant to have your presence and support on the day, and to ensure that all departments are represented.

For more information, and to secure your place, please visit the event webpages. A finalised programme will be released shortly, along with registration for individual sessions.

We hope to see you there!

The Inclusive Education Festival Team

'Whose Freedom? Worksites of Freedom and the Aesthetics of Solidarity’: CFP

Mon, 23 Mar 2026 12:14:47 GMT

��TV India Network Launch

Fri, 13 Mar 2026 15:07:42 GMT

Monday 16th March, 15:00-17:30
Panorama, Rootes Building

Join the launch of the ��TV India Network and help shape our institutional engagement with India:

Hear from the University’s senior leaders and reflect on what is, and should be, ��TV’s distinctive approach to engaging with India.
Learn about many inspiring and impactful projects that our researchers are undertaking in collaboration with partners in India.
Find out more about the ��TV India Network, and how it will connect colleagues across the institution, and facilitate collaborations with partners in India.
Sign up to the ��TV India Network mailing list to receive our news and participate in future India opportunities and events.

EU Funding & Training Opportunities

Mon, 09 Mar 2026 14:57:44 GMT

Please find below a summary of current EU funding and training opportunities that may be of interest across the Faculty of Arts.

Seed Funding for collaborations and for proposal writing for EU funding opportunities:

Horizon Europe Seed Fund reminder – still open for submissions, next deadline: Wed 18 March 2026, 5pm

No applications received for this deadline yet- this will be the final deadline for this academic year.

Training for Horizon Europe opportunities:

MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships (2026 call)- call deadline: 9 Sep 2026; deadline to apply for training: Fri 8 May 12pm. Also open to external applicants looking to be hosted at ��TV.

ERC Training by Yellow Research: Starting and Consolidator Grants 2027 calls- call deadlines: Oct 2026 for ERC STG; Jan 2027 for ERC COG; deadline to apply for training: 5pm on Wed 6 May

ERC Plus Grants- Thursday 23 April, 1.30pm- 2.30pm, online. Overview of the ERC’s newest scheme, ERC Plus Grants, with a deadline in Sep 2026. Grants of up to €7 Million (lump sum), 4-7 years, and open to all disciplines. Overview of the session. Sign up form.

MSCA Doctoral Networks- bespoke consultancy support of up to 25 hours per consortium to be offered for up to 2 proposals coordinated by ��TV academics and to be submitted to the 2026 round exclusively. Apply by 5pm on Mon 11 May.

If you have any questions about these opportunities, please get in touch.

Kind regards,

Lelia

Lelia Buretia | EU Research Development Officer | Research & Impact Services

E: lelia.buretia@warwick.ac.uk

EDIBLE BOUNDARIES: Food, Identity, and the Material Culture of Eating and Drinking - Registration now open

Sat, 28 Feb 2026 18:52:00 GMT

Monash Arts and Social Science Colleagues Visit ��TV: Drop-In Sessions

Fri, 27 Feb 2026 10:00:00 GMT

Dear Colleagues,

From 9th to 13th March, WIE are delighted to be hosting Professors Jo Winning and Catherine Mills (Arts, Monash University) for a week-long residency and programme of events. Supported by the Monash ��TV Alliance Research Activation Fund, this week-long programme is designed to draw together the faculties Arts and Social Sciences at both Monash and ��TV to explore the nature and value of public engagement at the two institutions and use this as a basis for new collaborations, new research, new teaching and to equip both universities to better articulate the value of the so-called H.A.S.S. family of disciplines as they intersect with engagement practices.

Alongside larger networking events, the programme will involve two open door, drop-in sessions to allow ��TV staff to consult informally with our Monash guests about future projects, collaborations or simply to explore. Non appointments necessary, just turn up. The sessions will run at:

Tues 10 March, Arts 2:30 – 3:30 pm (FAB1.38)

Wed 11 March Social Sciences 2:30 pm – 3:30pm (Social Sciences, B1.36).

Although the sessions might appear to be faculty specific, colleagues from either session can drop in to either.

Please contact Dr James Hodkinson j.r.hodkinson@warwick.ac.uk or Dr Georgiana Mihut Georgiana.Mihut@warwick.ac.uk for further details.

All very best wishes,

James Hodkinson