Research-based learning at Warwick

As a research-led university Warwick aims to maximise the benefits to both staff and students of potential links between teaching and research. The university’s learning and teaching strategy includes a focus on research-based learning, with activities including an Undergraduate Research Scholarship Scheme and the work of the Reinvention Centre for Undergraduate Research.

The Undergraduate Research Scholarship Scheme

The Undergraduate Research Scholarship Scheme enables students to participate in a ‘live’ research project led by an academic. By taking part in the scheme students:

• become directly involved in real research work
• experience what it’s like to be a member of a research team
• develop transferable skills such as project management and communication
• enhance their research skills
• become aware of academic research and career options in this area

Natasha Latiff, a third year law student, took part in the scheme during 2007-08 – read about her experiences working on a project on gender in Islamic criminal justice

The Reinvention Centre

The Reinvention Centre, a Centre for Excellence in Teaching and Learning (CETL), aims to put research at the heart of the undergraduate curriculum and to integrate students into the research cultures of their subjects and universities.

One of the centre’s key outputs is its journal, Reinvention: a journal of undergraduate research Articles on law and related topics:

• Justified discrimination? A critical analysis of the decision in Wilkinson v Kitzinger [2007] 1 FLR 296 – by Erin Culley (Department of Law, University of Greenwich)
• Representations of reality in a court of law – by Rebecca Funnell (Department of Sociology, University of Warwick)
• The absence of mercy: the treatment of the mentally ill in death penalty cases by the state of Texas following Ford v Wainwright – by Hayley Knight (School of Law, University of Warwick)

Last Modified: 30 June 2010