Reinvention is published by the Institute for Advanced Teaching and Learning at the University of Warwick.
What is IATL?
The Institute for Advanced Teaching and Learning (IATL) at the University of Warwick is a pioneering academic department dedicated to educational innovation. IATL collaborates with both students and staff across the university to foster transformative educational opportunities. It acts as the institutional hub for educational innovation at Warwick, providing leadership and support to help students achieve their full potential, develop their ideas, and contribute to the university community as engaged citizens.
IATL empowers students by offering them the tools to design and execute their own projects, and to share their research findings through creative mediums, conferences and academic journals. The department also hosts interdisciplinary modules that encourage collaboration between students and staff from various disciplines, helping them connect their learning to tackle larger questions. IATL is committed to exploring diverse forms of assessment, including student-devised assessment, and co-creating different ways of learning and teaching with students.
IATL and Reinvention
IATL supports student research development and dissemination in conferences in the International Conference of Undergraduate Research (ICUR), British Conference of Undergraduate Research (BCUR), Posters in Parliament (PiP) and the World Congress of Undergraduate Research, along with Reinvention. Disseminating research is a crucial part of the research journey to get research out to an academic and often wider public audience. Opportunities include presenting a conference such as ICUR or BCUR and submitting a paper for publication via Reinvention.
Writing for an academic journal or presenting at an undergraduate research conference is a great starting place for developing skills for research dissemination and ensuring good quality original research is available. Writing for a non-subject specialist audience is a skill and developing a paper helps budding academic authors think critically about their research, to refine and reframe their results for new audiences.
IATL’s Mission
The mission of IATL is grounded in three foundational principles: Research-Led Educational Innovation, Participatory Practices and Inclusive Structures, and Care-Rooted Approaches. These principles support the creation of academically rigorous, holistic learning experiences that are caring and inclusive, recognising the unique talents and needs of each student.
IATL’s core activities, which include Learning beyond Disciplines, Student Research, Learning beyond Borders, and Research-Infused and Enterprise-Infused Curricula, embody its mission. These activities create student-centred, transformative educational experiences that expand students’ learning opportunities and horizons, aligning with the overarching mission of Reinvention and the conference International Conference of Undergraduate Research (ICUR) and the ICUR Philosophy.