Teaching Innovation, Research and funding in German Studies at Warwick
Dr James Hodkinson
Warwick Alumni Day:
Saturday 8 th March 2008.

The Continued Shift towards a ‘bidding culture’ in Higher Education
We face an ever increasing need to bid for internal and external funding to aid teaching development and research …

 Warwick Educational Innovation fund
Dr Se án Allan and pod-casting Goethe project
 Funding for postgraduate research, to create
‘studentships’ to free students from paying tuition fees and provide them with money, proves more elusive, however.

Postgraduate Life in Warwick
German Studies
 Three Taught MAs
MA in German Cultural Studies
MA in Pan-Romanticisms
MA in Translation, Writing and Cultural
Difference
 The MA by Research
 PhD programme

A student’s perspective:
Mary Sage, currently an
MA student in the department ….

The future costs money:
Typical Warwick fees for
 an MA student: £3,830 p.a. rising to £5,200 in 2010?
 a PhD student: £3,300 p.a.
Cost of living: ca. £10,000
Sources of Funding:
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WPRS (does not fund MA-s, PhD-s only)
AHRC (only eight MA awards for German in the whole UK)

Investing in the Future
 Studentships: a fee waiver plus £ 7,000 towards maintenance
 The Godfrey Carr Fund : requires constant topping up …

Growth in Warwick German Studies
 Increase in size in the department:
 A large German department, bucking the national trend of shrinkage in the field
 Year groups of 70 students
 New academic posts
 National Student Survey : 100%
 Postgraduates: in 2000, 1 student in 2008, 8 students.

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