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Sign-ups are now open for the first student-led Warwick Film Festival! All staff and students are invited to enter – no matter your level of skill, the team wants to see your short films around the theme of ‘belonging’. Participants will also have the chance to join workshops led by a range of experts, from local filmmakers to big industry names like Disney. – and make a note that your film will need to be submitted by Sunday 21 May. 

In February 2023, the University and College Union (UCU) announced that it would ballot its members to allow industrial action to continue in universities for the rest of the academic year. The ballot closed on 31 March, and yesterday (Monday, 3 April), UCU announced that members have secured a mandate for further strike action.

At present, no details have been shared, but we will continue to keep staff updated as further announcements are made.

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°Â±ð’r±ð currently working through a series of changes to how we collect and return our student data to the Higher Education Statistics Agency (HESA). Read this update to learn more about ·É³ó²¹³Ù’s changing and why, and what it means for departments.

Warwick Business School’s Distance Learning MBA has today been crowned the , beating some of the world’s leading online MBA programmes to top the QS Online MBA ranking.

Researchers in WMG have teamed up with the National University of Radio Electronics (NURE) in Ukraine to develop artificial intelligence that will help treat those wounded by shrapnel. This new state-of-the-art technology will allow medics to spot life-threatening wounds that might not be obvious to the naked eye, so that they can determine which patients require immediate treatment.

Did you nominate a colleague who’s made a significant difference to the support of students through personal tutoring? This year’s shortlist for the Warwick Awards for Personal Tutoring Excellence (WAPTE) has been announced – see who’s been shortlistedLink opens in a new window.

In this ‘Meet the researcher’ video, Professor Helen Wheatley, School of Creative Arts, Performance and Visual Cultures, Centre for Television Histories, talks about her research into our local television history. Helen’s ‘Ghost Town’ project explores . 

See how schoolchildren from Coventry visited Parliament recentlyLink opens in a new window, as part of our work to open up opportunities and experiences for schoolchildren from disadvantaged backgrounds. The visit was part of wider work to forge closer links with UNESCO UK, to promote peace and the ideals of the UN.

Find out about a new programme, led by the Social Inclusion team, which will pair up staff from marginalised communities with senior staff membersLink opens in a new window, to share insight and lived experience over a six-month period.