Spring 2019 awards
Student Experience Grants awarded in the spring 2019 round of applications.
Clubs, societies and social enterprises
| Club, society or social enterprise | Project title | Project overview | Amount awarded |
|---|---|---|---|
| Edinburgh Global Partnerships | Mental health facility construction in Kenya | Under Edinburgh Global Partnerships (EGP), Team Kenya is in partnership with Tinada Youth Organization to construct a mental health facility in Kisumu County. | £1,054 |
| Edinburgh University Boat Club | Taking Edinburgh University Boat Club to the Head of the Charles Regatta, USA | Taking a men’s and a women’s eight to the Head of the Charles Regatta, one of the biggest rowing events in the world, aiming to make this a biennial experience. | £1,000 |
| Edinburgh University Ladies Rugby Football Club | Global Positioning System (GPS) tracking devices for improving female performance sport | Funding 22 Global Positioning System (GPS) units for the club in order to improve training and performance. | £1,818 |
| Edinburgh University Magic Society | Magic Society website and filmed performances | Creating website and filming performances to extend the reach and spread awareness of the new Magic Society. | £500 |
| Edinburgh University Skydiving Club | Edinburgh University Skydiving Club rig | Funding a new complete parachute system (rig) for the club to help members with progression in the sport as well as allow them to form their first ever club team. | £2,000 |
| Edinburgh University Sub-Aqua Club | Discovering and surveying new dive sites in Scotland - becoming more adventurous | Learning marine and underwater archaeological surveying techniques and using these to discover new, more remote dive sites. Besides training, the grant will also be used to purchase a new air compressor. | £2,500 |
| Edinburgh University Theatre Company | Edinburgh University Theatre Company accessibility week | Running a week of accessible shows, workshops and discussions in September and supporting disability training at Bedlam Theatre. | £550 |
| Enactus Edinburgh | Edinburgh Candle Company |
Funding new candle kits as well as spreading brand awareness on campus and across the UK. |
£600 |
| Enactus Edinburgh | Harvest |
Funding a trial project that aims to bridge the gap between companies providing emerging grain storage technologies and smallholder farmers. The goal is to target the significant post-harvest losses plaguing Malawi. |
£700 |
| Orienteering Club | Increase participation in orienteering | Increasing participation in the sport of orienteering by supplying beginners with the basic equipment they require for the club’s training programme and weekends away. | £500 |
| Our SpeakEasy | Community engagement through storytelling | Hosting public speaking workshops to create inclusive, integrated and engaged community through storytelling. | £800 |
| R Sustainable | R Sustainable social enterprise | Running a range of events, starting from September, to provide a platform for conversation about “material innovation” in a wide variety of fields, from food, to fashion, to chemistry, to engineering. | £1,550 |
| Theatre Paradok | Theatre Paradok at Fringe | Twice Over is an innovative, exciting and radical piece of theatre produced by Theatre Paradok. It will be on from the 2-10th of August as part of the Fringe Festival. | £600 |
College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences
| School | Project title | Project overview | Amount awarded |
|---|---|---|---|
| Business School | Sustainable fashion documentary | Creating a documentary about the environmental impact of the fashion industry, highlighting how individual actions can make a difference. | £865 |
| Edinburgh College of Art | Music Across Borders | Bringing an intercultural integration experience to students through a celebration of local world music ensembles and illustrating through music a great potential of cultural diversity and intercultural collaboration. | £3,670 |
| Edinburgh College of Art | Indiascussion podcast series | Creating a podcast series about sustainable fashion, following a University-led trek in India, whilst raising awareness of industry problems, including sustainability, trade, colonial legacies, and gender. | £647 |
| Edinburgh Law School | Rate My Night: night-time economy website | Supporting the creation of a website that aims to improve transparency in bars, clubs and hostels in Edinburgh by allowing people to rate their experience. | £3,226 |
| Moray House School of Education | Intentional learning communities and student engagement in higher education | This collaborative project explores the student experience of intentional learning communities on student engagement, while simultaneously researching the student experience of student researchers learning research through practice. | £4,980 |
| Moray House School of Education | Multilingual STEM programme for primary school pupils and parents in Edinburgh | Putting a formative course assessment into action and running a multilingual STEM programme for less privileged pupils and their parents to explore public learning resources. | £2,204 |
| School of Divinity | Conference in Late Antique, Islamic and Byzantine Studies |
Expanding upon previous conferences in Byzantine studies by collaborating with the Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies department. The aim is to create a platform for the promotion of new historical approaches. |
£1,934 |
| School of History, Classics and Archaeology | In the Shadow of Mount Olympus: a trip to ancient Macedonia | An eleven-day trip with students to explore the ancient region of Macedonia, by visiting sites and museums in northern Greece, southern Bulgaria and the Republic of Macedonia. | £5,000 |
| School of History, Classics and Archaeology | LIFT - Elevating Women Beyond Sport | Running a networking event, aimed at female performance athletes whilst demonstrating how sporting skills can be transferred into successful career opportunities, both within and outside of the sporting world. | £1,775 |
| School of Literatures, Languages and Cultures | Syrian Futures | Syrian Futures is an outreach project led by staff and students from the University that provides specialist support, training and resources to Scottish Syrians refugees of all ages | £2,500 |
| School of Literatures, Languages and Cultures | University of Edinburgh Disabled Students Archive |
Building the foundation for the formation of the University of Edinburgh Disabled Students Archive. The aim is to collate an initial collection of extant documents and bring together current and past disabled students voices. |
£3,200 |
| School of Philosophy, Psychology and Language Sciences (PPLS) | PPLS PhD Summer Training in Statistics and R | The project aims to build an infrastructure for PPLS PhD student’s statistics training, focusing on areas that are core to successful research and/or participants teaching career. | £1,452 |
| School of Social and Political Science | Centre of African Studies writing retreat and workshop | Enhancing the productivity of PhD candidates writing skills in order to aid them in the completion of their PhD theses, and to achieve wider research impact through the participation in writing and research outreach workshops. | £1,160 |
| School of Social and Political Science | Edinburgh Graduate Research Conference in Political Theory | This conference is geared towards postgraduate students in the School of Social and Political Science, and other schools in the humanities, and aims to address current challenges to global governance. | £433 |
| School of Social and Political Science | Decolonising knowledge through art | Carrying out two small but ambitious art-based projects on decolonising knowledge. | £2,615 |
College of Medicine and Veterinary Medicine
| School | Project title | Project overview | Amount awarded |
|---|---|---|---|
| Edinburgh Medical School | Critical care ward virtual reality (VR) experience | Developing a VR experience of a critical care ward for undergraduate students | £2,450 |
| Edinburgh Medical School | Gamify your research | Development and delivery of a game, with students and about students’ research, to connect with a local community audience as part of an established community engagement project. | £2,500 |
| Edinburgh Medical School | Medics’ wellbeing walk |
Providing first year medical students with an opportunity to gain empathy for each other and a sense of togetherness from the outset of their six-year studies. The goal is to undertake a whole-group medium-distance walk in the Edinburgh environs. |
£2,500 |
| Edinburgh Medical School | WellMed - a peer support group for medical students and other affiliated subjects | Starting a new peer support group and focusing on four strands of activities - discussion, activity, a talk and self-help. | £1,500 |
| Edinburgh Medical School | 3D printed skull base tumours for patient counselling and medical education | Using a patient specific 3D printed skull base model to counsel the patient of the operative plan to see if it allows for a more informed patient consent. | £1,000 |
| Royal (Dick) School of Veterinary Studies | Enhancing student experience and community building by peer learning and society | Creating a new agriculture society and form Agri-PALs (Peer Assisted Learning). These activities will facilitate student learning, build community and enhance student experience. | £2,460 |
| Royal (Dick) School of Veterinary Studies (R(D)SVS) | R(D)SVS Pipes and Drums | The newly formed R(D)SVS Pipes and Drums Society aims to provide teaching to those who wish to learn the bagpipes or drums and join our new pipe band. We welcome members of any level of expertise and welcome staff and students based at Easter Bush. | £2,145 |
| Royal (Dick) School of Veterinary Studies | The Food Fly Project | This student-led project aims to reduce food waste by exploring the use of black soldier flies as a means of converting food waste and other types of waste into usable protein. | £895 |
| Royal (Dick) School of Veterinary Studies | The Journey of Tea - from tea plantation to teapot | Over the course of one week, we will explore the journey of tea - from plantation to teapot. We will identify social, economic and environmental issues and their impact on a sustainable supply chain. | £4,950 |
College of Science and Engineering
| School | Project title | Project overview | Amount awarded |
| School of Biological Sciences |
Building research links between Edinburgh and Trinidad |
The project will work to assist and advise honours projects, assist PhD research, deliver community outreach and build a platform that makes it possible to form an expedition to Trinidad. | £1,700 |
| School of Biological Sciences | Micro-fight: competitions of student microbiota for personalised phenotyping | Setting up a 'tournament' where student microbiota compete against each other to promote awareness about the microbiome and to illustrate its applications for personalised medicine. | £5,000 |
| School of Biological Sciences | Raspberry-Pi Plant: capturing plant growth dynamics, for research and education | Develop programming and 3D-printing skills to construct an inexpensive, user-friendly and open-access, plant growth imaging platform. | £2,566 |
| School of Chemistry | STEM Stories: a storytelling series of student journeys | Through the medium of storytelling, this project aims to build a supportive environment to see what we share, what our fears and dreams are and the monsters we have conquered along the way. | £2,500 |
| School of Chemistry | Electronic chess board for treatment of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) | Design and fabrication of electronic chess boards interfaced with artificial intelligence and chess engine. The whole idea of prototyping this electronic board is to explore the application of chess to attention deficit hyperactivity disorder. | £230 |
| School of Chemistry | The Playable Periodic Table Workshop - Unleashing the Elements | The project aims to deliver a workshop based on newly developed card game promoting chemistry to primary schools in targeted areas. | £1,268 |
| School of Engineering | 180 Degrees Consulting Edinburgh | 180 Degrees Consulting aims to bridge the gap between quality, well-meaning consulting services and social enterprises struggling to afford such a service. | £1,077 |
| School of Engineering | Leapfrogging Beyond Borders | Holding STEM workshops in Southeast Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa and creating a network of university students excited about using STEM innovation for social impact in these regions. | £4,800 |
| School of Mathematics | Recognition of refugees’ education | A cooperation project with the non-governmental organisation Za’atar in Athens to assist refugees who seek recognition of their higher education whilst promoting cultural integration of refugees in Europe. | £1,070 |
| School of Mathematics | Mary Lister McCammon Research Fellowship | This is a ten-week summer research fellowship for female students aiming to pursue a PhD in mathematics. | £2,823 |
| School of Physics and Astronomy | Focusing on unheard voices in physics | Providing underrepresented groups the opportunity to effectively communicate the changes they want to see through the work of new focus groups. | £700 |
Non-academic departments
| Department | Project title | Project overview | Amount awarded |
|---|---|---|---|
| Edinburgh University Sports Union | Volunteer Zambia | Working with Sport in Action and its partners to make a significant contribution to the long term, sustainable development of young people in Zambia. | £500 |