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Policy Support Fund Showcase

Thu, 15 Oct 2026 15:48:30 GMT

We are delighted to announce this showcase event on Tuesday, 10^th November for the excellent and wide-ranging work which has been supported by the University’s Policy Support Fund since 2021.

Since 2021, the University has received an annual Policy Support Fund allocation from Research England. This funding is distributed to strengthen connections between universities and policy professionals by facilitating collaborative research, knowledge exchange, and capacity-building. Projects supported through the PSF have resulted in a range of impacts - from sector codes of practice to protect employee mental health, to UK tax reform

Details:

Tuesday 10 November 2026
09:30 - 16:00
Scarman Conference Centre
Lunch and refreshments provided
Registration essential – click here to sign up: /services/ris/impactinnovation/impact-academy/psfshowcase/

At this event, we will also be officially launching the University’s new Policy Institute: a new, university-wide initiative designed to consolidate, enhance, and accelerate the University's engagement with policymakers, public services and civil society. Building on the success of Warwick's ESRC-funded Policy Hub, the Institute will create a coordinated platform for academics across all faculties and disciplines to connect their research with policy priorities at local, national, and international levels.

Aims of the event:

This event is open to all, and will be of value to anyone currently working in the research-policy space or anyone interested in doing so, and any colleagues who support or enable this type of work.

We will be hosting a range of regional external stakeholders, policy fellows, and non-academic project partners to reflect the scope of funded work and to showcase our diverse areas of strength in policy-relevant research.

The showcase will:

Raise awareness both internally and externally of the work this fund has enabled
Celebrate the impact and policy influence of Warwick research
Provide an opportunity for award-holder networking, idea-sharing, and potential future collaboration
Explore the opportunities, challenges, and idiosyncrasies which characterise the research-policy space and share experiences of relationship building, effective communication, theory of change and working in highly charged or contested contexts
Highlight the external partnerships supported by this funding and the diverse work our researchers undertake with and for policy makers and service users
Kickstart and crystallise a long-term, dynamic, cross-university community of practice around policy engagement and policy-relevant research

We encourage you to share details of this event with any external collaborators or contacts you think might be interested in finding out more about our research community’s ambitious culture of impact and co-creation.

For further information and to register, please visit the following webpage: /services/ris/impactinnovation/impact-academy/psfshowcase/

We look forward to seeing you!

With very best wishes,

The Impact Team

CALL FOR PAPERS - Say a Body where None. Necromanticism and Thanatological Imagination of the Afterlife in the Modern and Contemporary Age

Wed, 23 Sep 2026 17:03:52 GMT

Dr Christina Williamson of the University of Groningen, IAS Visiting Fellow.

Thu, 21 May 2026 15:32:29 GMT

From 8-18th June the Dept of Classics/Ancient History will be hosting Dr Christina Williamson of the University of Groningen, as an IAS Visiting Fellow.

Christina is an ancient historian who uses a transdisciplinary approach, integrating landscape, material culture, and text to explore the meanings and uses of sanctuaries in antiquity.

While at Warwick she will be participating in a number of events which are open to all (staff and PGs): Please see below for full details, and sign up on the relevant forms:

/fac/arts/classics/research/seminars/williamson/

More than Almsmen Brotherhood and Belonging at the Lord Leycester Hospital 1571-1700

Tue, 19 May 2026 13:28:52 GMT

2nd - 30th June 2026
Curated by Angus Crawford (M4C PhD student) and Dr Naomi Pullin in the History Department at the 91Ӱ��ƽ��, this display explores the lives of the brethren who lived at the Lord Leycester Hospital between its foundation in 1571 and 1700. For centuries, attention has focused on the hospital’s founder, Robert Dudley, and his heirs, the Sidney family. This exhibition shifts the spotlight away from these well-known figures to the brethren themselves, asking who they were, how they were chosen and what daily life at the hospital was like.

Despite the later reputation of the Lord Leycester as a home for ex-servicemen, this exhibition shows that the Lord Leycester was home to a remarkably diverse group of people. Through their stories, we see complex webs of power that connected monarchs to their subjects, how patronage operated within major aristocratic households, and how ordinary people lived nearly four hundred years ago.

Empire’s Fruit: Colonial Ecologies, Food Systems, and Imperial Power - Call For Papers

Tue, 12 May 2026 13:41:26 GMT

Working with Publishers - a one-day workshop for PGRs and ECRs - Registration now open

Wed, 29 Apr 2026 07:00:00 GMT

The Future of Publishing in the Humanities - one-day symposium - Registration now open

Tue, 28 Apr 2026 15:38:11 GMT

Humanities Research Fund (HRF) - Funding Call

Mon, 27 Apr 2026 14:37:47 GMT

The Humanities Research Fund (HRF) is now accepting out-of-cycle applications for activities to be carried out between 1 December 2025 - 31 July 2026.

These will be allocated on a first-come, first-served basis. The panel will review applications approximately every 1-2 weeks until the money is allocated.

Funding is available to support research activity in the Faculty of Arts, including:

Pump-priming to kick-start new, innovative research projects
Research Supplements
Publication costs
Conference travel

Please note that this fund requires a 10% departmental contribution.

For more details and to apply please see:

/services/ris/researchstrategy/researchfunding/rdf/hrf/

Enquiries can be directed to WarwickHRF@warwick.ac.uk

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 Thanatological Imagination of the Afterlife in the Modern and Contemporary Age (1764-2027)

Women, Power and Money - Registration now open

Wed, 01 Apr 2026 14:37:00 GMT