IPE researchers from PAIS have won the IATL Strategic Project Grant for I-PEEL: International Political Economy of Everyday Life.

This innovative teaching project aims to create an online teaching tool for use in political economy modules. Its content will be steered by students and geared to their development as self-directed learners. The central format will revolve around a set of front page 'tiles' (i.e. clickable squares) presented on a webpage, which will feature an image or object such as a cup of coffee, a bar of soap, or a development charity poster. Our pedagogical purpose is to provide students with an accessible route into the study of the global economy; a topic which is complex and can often feel like it is far removed from the realities of people’s daily existence. The project will achieve this by producing a platform website which will host a series of short academic reflections on the political economy of the objects and events of everyday life. Taking advantage of the online format, the text will also be supplemented with pictures and podcasts, hyperlinked sources, feeds on further reading, and linked forums for online discussion.

The project is funded by the University of Warwick Institute for Advanced Teaching and Learning. Project team members are: James Brassett, Juanita Elias, Lena Rethel and Ben Richardson (all PAIS). The online platform will be developed in collaboration with IGGY.

We are currently in the process of recruiting volunteers for our student advisory board. Please email Lena at L.Rethel@warwick.ac.uk if you want to get involved.

We also gratefully acknowledge the support from colleagues in CAL, CIM, English and Comparative Literary Studies, Film and Television Studies, History, Law, Sociology, Theatre Studies and WBS.