An IAS/Research Exchange event on how Early Career Researchers can achieve impact with their research. Speakers include: Professor Philip Cowley (University of Nottingham)on getting your work into Westminster, Professor Richard Aldrich (University of Warwick) leading a case-study panel on generating impact, and Peter Dunn (Communications Officer, University of Warwick) on getting your research into the media. Also featuring a panel on social networking and new media.

Join Nick Barker and Vas Stavros from the Chemistry department on Monday 21 May for an evening of noisy, bubbly, whizz-bang chemistry displays for all the family, to raise funds for the Warwick in Africa programme.

The sessions will focus on how to help you deal with stress and improve concentration. We aim to help make meditation a useful tool you can use to combat stress and feel great. We will deliver various short guided meditations to help you find that pocket of peace in your hectic day.

Professor Jonothan Neelands will present his lecture ‘'Creative Education as a 21st Century Imperative'’, followed by a drinks reception.

This WBS inaugural lecture will define creativity, ethical innovation, problem based learning and collaboration as 21st Century imperatives that are essential to the survival of the planet and the species. Cutting through the boundaries of commercial and cultural production and creative education the lecture will suggest that there are common processes that might underpin an ethical and pro-social foundation for building sustainable futures. Examples will be drawn from the artistic work of the Royal Shakespeare Company, Open Space Learning at Warwick and the WBS Working Capital programme.

Follow the link for more information and to reserve a ticket.

Professor Roach will examine miscarriages of justice from a comparative perspective with a focus on the UK, US, Canada and Australia but also with some reference to China. Among the questions examined will be differing approaches to the definition of miscarriages of justice including the emphasis placed on factual innocence and different means of investigating and overturning miscarriages of justice.

The lecture will be held in the ACCR in the Art Centre and will start at 5pm and a drinks reception will be held afterwards in the foyer at around 6:15pm.

Kate Cooper presents a seminar from the New Optimists Forum entitled 'Food futures for Birmingham 2050'.5.30-7.30 pm. ‘Food futures for Birmingham 2050’. Drinks and nibbles will be provided. Please bring a laptop along if you have one. E-mail Deb Butler to confirm attendance. Visit the New Optimists Forum website for further information.

A termly chance to meet and chat to other Warwick staff, including senior staff, over a cup of coffee and a snack.

Workshop for students who worry about feeling sick; tightness in chest/racing heart/nausea/bad tummy/dizziness, whilst otherwise being in good health.

Ariel Rubinstein, widely recognized as one of the most important and creative economic theorists of our day, will speak at the University of Warwick Department of Economics this month. The 90-minute lecture, “A Personal Journey in the Wonderland of Neuroeconomics,” will begin at 2 p.m. on Thursday, 24 May in S0.21. Everyone is welcome.

Presentation and discussion on 'Seeding the Cloud Services by Re-aligning People, Process and Technology'.

Dr Haluk Demirkan is Professor of Information Systems and Research Fellow for the Centers for Services Leadership and Advancing Business through IT, Carey School of Business, Arizona State University.

All are welcome.

The sessions will focus on how to help you deal with stress and improve concentration. We aim to help make meditation a useful tool you can use to combat stress and feel great. We will deliver various short guided meditations to help you find that pocket of peace in your hectic day.

The 10th symposium on Parish Research brings together independent researchers, preservation organizations, local communities, parish societies and academics interested in parish history, culture and heritage to showcase the great variety of work pursued in the field across Britain and Europe from the Middle Ages to the present day.

Four leading scholars in this area will deliver plenary lectures, including Dr Penny Roberts from Warwick's History Department. Parallel sessions will feature a diverse range of research and project presentations, panel discussions and methodological workshops. A fair of project displays and promotional stalls will run alongside.

The event is open to all. Registration is required and residential and non-residential delegate packages are available.

St John Ambulance University of Warwick LINKS invite you to have your photo taken with an official London 2012 Olympic Torch.

If you make a donation to St John Ambulance you will be able to either take your own photo of you with the Olympic Torch, or have your photo taken by the organisers.

Everyone is welcome.

Professor Luis Aragon (Cell Cycle Group Head,MRC Clinical Sciences Centre, Faculty of Medicine, Imperial College London) will speak on 'Roles for cohesin SUMOylation and cleavage at DNA double-strand breaks'.

The seminar is open to staff and students and there is no need to register in advance.

Strategy Bites is your chance to find out more about the many projects that are part of the University's Strategy 2015.

This session will focus on the Global Research Priorities Programme.

The session will be led by Pro Vice-Chancellors Professors Jones and Croft.

The sessions will focus on how to help you deal with stress and improve concentration. We aim to help make meditation a useful tool you can use to combat stress and feel great. We will deliver various short guided meditations to help you find that pocket of peace in your hectic day.

In 1668, Claude Perrault and the Royal Academy of Sciences dissected a chameleon gifted to Louis XIV; in 1672, Mademoiselle de Scudery, literary star of the Paris salons, offered her own literary ethnology of the two chameleons she had herself received as a gift. The relations between the "scientific" and the "literary" at the beginning of the Age of Louis XIV are explored in the comparative microhistory of these three chameleons that moved back and forth between the two texts, and between the dissecting room and the salon, at a critical moment in the reception within polite society of the "new science" and the contested figure of Descartes in France.

Join three fabulous speakers for an early evening event exploring Bletchley Park and its legacy. The high-level intelligence produced at Bletchley Park, codenamed Ultra, provided crucial assistance to the Allied war effort. 

Hear from Chris Grey, Professor of Organisational Behaviour at WBS; Richard Aldrich, Professor of International Security at Warwick, an expert in the technology of secrecy - particularly secure communications; and Michael Smith, an award-winning Investigative journalist who writes on defence and security issues.

All are welcome. Drinks will be served 6.30-7pm, with the speakers and questions between 7-8.30pm. Reserve your place today by emailing flo.swann@wbs.ac.uk

The University of Warwick Science & Technology for Health Global Priorities Programme (GPP) is hosting this exciting event to foster discussion regarding the importance of building collaborative partnerships between the NHS, academia and industry that will facilitate future innovation in the NHS where is most required. This meeting will also feature special guest speaker - Dr Stephen Dunn, Director of Policy & Strategy, NHS Midlands and East Strategic Health Authority - who will deliver the opening lecture on 'Taking Forward Innovation Health and Wealth'.

The relationship between sensitivity to temporal fine structure information and hearing aid outcomes was investigated in 75 older adults over the first six-months of hearing aid provision. Prior to receiving hearing aids, participants completed a short test to determine their sensitivity to TFS [1], part one of the Glasgow Hearing Aid Benefit Profile (GHABP: [2]), and the Speech, Spatial and Qualities of Hearing (SSQ-A: [3]). Follow-up appointments were conducted three and six months post hearing-aid fitting and comprised of a speech reception task, the GHABP part two, the Speech Spatial and Qualities of Hearing: Benefit (SSQ-B: [4]), and the International Outcome Inventory for Hearing Aid Outcomes (IOI-HA: [5]). Lunch provided from 12.30 to 1pm

This event will launch the Warwick Healthcare Partnership and the new WHP Annual Lecture. The inaugural lecture will be given by Professor Garret A. FitzGerald, MD. Professor Fitzgerald is the McNeil Professor in Translational Medicine and Therapeutics at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, where he chairs the Department of Pharmacology and directs the Institute for Translational Medicine and Therapeutics. Professor FitzGerald serves on the Warwick Medical School Advisory Board.

The lecture will be followed by a drinks reception and is open to staff, students and alumni. Registration is required.

Esteemed members of the academy! You have done me the great honour of inviting me to give you an account of my former life as an ape.” Brutally imprisoned and desperate to escape, the ape-man reveals his rise through the ranks of the beasts to become a master of the ‘civilised world’ – a walking, talking, spitting, smoking, hard-drinking man of the stage. A witty, heart-rending and ironic tale of forced assimilation into an alien culture, Kafka’s Monkey places a startling mirror in front of a modern day audience.

The ape is played by the Olivier Award winner and Complicite founding member Kathryn Hunter (Peter Brook’s Fragments, National Theatre’s The Visit, Mike Leigh’s All or Nothing, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix). After the performance on the 30 May there will be a special post-show discussion on the theme of human attitudes towards animals. Presented by the Being Human: Medicine and the Human Sciences’ research network (IAS) and funded by the University of Warwick’s Institute of Advanced Studies, it will feature Kathryn Hunter and a panel of academics. Tickets cost £15.

This event has been designed to give attendees the ability to produce competitive Post-Doc funding applications by giving them the chance to listen to, and interact with, more experienced colleagues who have won Post-doc awards.

Matthew Watson is Professor of Political Economy in the Department of Politics and International Studies. After a period running the department's PhD programme and trying to incorporate advice on professional socialisation into the day-to-day running of that programme, he became the department's first dedicated Director of Postdoctoral Programmes.This is a post he held for three years before passing it on to a committee of colleagues to oversee its future development. The department has been extremely successful since investing its staff time heavily in nurturing its postdoctoral programme, and this year it has eighteen fully-funded postdocs working for it.

The main points that Matthew will address will be those that relate to the all-important question from the prospective applicant's perspective of 'what do I need to do to put myself in the best possible position to secure postdoc funding?'.

Registration is required.

The sessions will focus on how to help you deal with stress and improve concentration. We aim to help make meditation a useful tool you can use to combat stress and feel great. We will deliver various short guided meditations to help you find that pocket of peace in your hectic day.