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Story Story is a four part audio history series that explores important events in Nigeria’s history through dramatisation and immersive sound scaping. It has been created by Lanaire Aderemi, one of IATL’s Co-Creation Officers and pulls forgotten Nigerian histories from the margin to the centre.

Please click to listen to the podcast which is available on all streaming platforms.

The ninth annual International Conference of Undergraduate Research was held on 28th-29th September 2021. ÌÒÉ«ÊÓƵ presenters connected with fellow undergraduate researchers at our thirteen participating institutions around the world. ICUR 2021 welcomed almost 600 presenters in 118 spoken presentation panels and 70 poster presentations.

IATL is an expanding academic community of staff and students with a shared interest in educational innovation. We are pleased to welcome new colleagues, fellows and co-creators at the start of the new academic year.

Illuminations is a WIHEA funded project, building on the work of the Wellbeing Pedagogies Learning Circle and engagement with the ÌÒÉ«ÊÓƵ Wellbeing Strategy. Our primary interest at this stage is to explore different ways of talking and thinking about workplace wellbeing with different stakeholder groups across the university. The aim is to help locating and illuminating ways in which institutional work practices, processes, and procedures, in a post Covid-19 landscape, enhance and/or inhibit the wellbeing of student-facing staff at ÌÒÉ«ÊÓƵ. Have you got something to say about workplace wellbeing? Got 10mins to spare? Help us find the words to tell your story using our anonymous submission form.

Student Innovation at ÌÒÉ«ÊÓƵ is a new podcast series on how ÌÒÉ«ÊÓƵ's departments embrace innovation. In episode 8, Dr Elena Riva talks about wellbeing, why it is important in student lives and she discuss the work of the students of her module "Understanding Wellbeing".

On the 15th of April 2021, Dr Elena Riva and IATL have hosted the 5th Interdisciplinary Learning and Teaching Conference that explored a variety of issues in the theme of 'Interdisciplinarity: Learning from Each Other', reflecting on the learning elements of collaboration, co-construction of knowledge and practice that underpin the interdisciplinary teaching and learning experiences of students and teachers.

IATL Co-Creation Officer , Lanaire Aderemi has created a festival called ‘story story’ comprised of workshops, commissions and films.The three day digital between took place between the 5th-7th of February and aims to equip storytellers with the skills and knowledge needed to share their stories with the world. Speakers include industry leaders such as Inua Ellams and Chinonyerem Odimb. Follow @storystoryfest on Instagram for updates.

A group of ÌÒÉ«ÊÓƵ staff and students led by Dr Elena Riva (IATL) has investigated student wellbeing in the teaching and learning environment. Read all about the findings of this pedagogic research project in this newly published article:

Your chance to present at the British Conference of Undergraduate Research virtually, 12 - 13 April 2021 Undergraduates of all levels are invited to submit papers, to present posters, creative show and tell, oral presentations and performances to the Conference. The deadline for submission of abstracts is midnight Thursday 24th January 2021.

Two students who have taken IATL modules have written blogs about their experiences. Vanshika Saxena writes about  our Design Thinking module and Qurratuain Amir Ihsan  her experiences of our Understanding Wellbeing module.