Selection of most recent successful applications
In the autumn round we received almost 70 applications for support with student and staff projects. The panel chose 29 winning projects. A selection is presented below. The spring round for applications will take place in mid January 2013.
Mrs Gez Wilson (Gallery and Theatre Manager, Faculty of Arts)
Purpose of Grant: Enable the university to host an event for students, local artists and makers, providing an opportunity to showcase and sell their work whilst also promoting the University to the community.
Current students will be provided with an opportunity to sell their work, probably for the first time to the public and to fundraise for their graduate shows for which they need to raise several thousands of pounds. Students already have stalls in the foyer throughout the year where they sell their artwork to raise funds and our idea is to bring these together and promote it to the local community and visitors to Brighton during the festival. This will increase the student experience, will generate income and bring the community and visitors to Brighton into the University site.
Acknowledgement of Springboard Grants Programme: This event will be promoted and the Springboard Grants Programme would be credited in the event listing in the Brighton Fringe Brochure, flyers and posters produced, e-flyer, web site listings and social media and in the press release.
Amount allocated: £994.00
Impact report will be posted shortly.
Dr Peter Bush (Senior Lecturer, School of Pharmacy and Biomolecular Sciences)
Purpose of Grant: The purpose is to improve student access to the PABS-apiary. The largest part of the grant will be used to purchase a hive webcam to provide live images of bees on public and lecture display screens. The remaining will be used to purchase more bees/beekeeping clothing for university apiary visits.
Acknowledgement of Springboard Grants Programme: The live webcam feed will be transmitted with an overlay acknowledging the Springboard grants programme, as will literature (e.g. safety sheets) and signage for the apiary.
Amount allocated: £733.40
Impact report will be posted shortly.
Professor Lou Taylor (School of Humanities)
Purpose of Grant: This grant will enable a joint University/Brighton city project in fashion history, building on the town's Regency heritage. Partners are Fashion and Design History staff/students in the School of Humanities and staff at the Regency Town House, Brighton.
This is a fundamentally a Regency dress and social history research investigation into the design, function and consumption of a collection of unresearched and largely unknown paper silhouettes stored in the Regency Town House. Most of these date from 1750-1830 though there are also some later examples up to 1960. This project is not part of any formal, assessed University of Brighton teaching programme but is a separate town/gown Regency period research project.
Acknowledgement of Springboard Grants Programme: The programme will be acknowledged on the front page of the printed catalogue and on the front site of the Silhouette Research Group download.
Amount allocated: £1000.00
Impact report will be posted shortly.
Pippa Totraku ( Senior Lecturer, School of Education)
Purpose of Grant: To purchase 7 android phones and memory cards. This will enable us to investigate how designing apps with children can engage, motivate and help to address the under-representation of women in STEM careers.
Through the innovative use of android phones and open source App-Inventor software, the project aims to develop and share effective and engaging methods in the teaching of new technologies. It will target children in Year 5 and 6, as this is a critical age when, especially girls, make decisions about their aspirations to pursue computer science and ICT related careers.
Acknowledgement of Springboard Grants Programme: The programme will be acknowledged on printed materials.
Amount allocated: £888.65
Impact report will be posted shortly.
Ms Alison Cotton (Student, MA Inclusive Arts Practice)
Purpose of Grant: This grant will enable me to carry out research with young people who are affected by familial drug or alcohol misuse. My methodology will include a program of artwalks and creative workshops, giving participants a wider perspective on their own identities and how they relate to their environment, and promoting walking as a universal, economical and therapeutic method of accessing the countryside that can be continued throughout life. The grant would enable me to pay for resources such as art materials, waterproofs and studio space.
Acknowledgement of Springboard Grants Programme: Springboard grants will be acknowledged in publications, online material and any promotional material.
Amount allocated: £550.00
Impact report will be posted shortly.
Mr Sean Matthew Page (Student, BSc Sport Coaching)
Purpose of Grant: The grant is to enable me to set up a Futsal Development Centre based in Eastbourne. This will offer the opportunity for primary school aged children in the area to attend coaching sessions for three hours a week. The setup, coaching and coach recruitment will form my 3rd year placement, as well as providing 3 to 5 coaching placements for year 2 students.
Acknowledgement of Springboard Grants Programme: Springboard will be advertised on the project's.
Amount allocated: £1000.00
Impact report will be posted shortly.
Mr Jerick Rodriguez(Student, MEng Aeronautical Engineering )
Purpose of Grant: in order to support my Final Year Project Component Costs. I am undertaking the Remote Control of Airships Project whereby I will be designing and producing a prototype hybrid airship capable of collecting loads and delivering them in a specific location assigned whilst maintaining a stable orientation. As an enthusiastic aeronautical engineer, I have a great vision of new generation of Hybrid Airships which will be efficient, eco-friendly transport of the future.
Acknowledgement of Springboard Grants Programme: In promotional material and on the website.
Amount allocated: £400.00
Impact report will be posted shortly.
Miss Soram Patel (Students, On behalf of BSMS Paediatric Society)
Purpose of Grant: To run a National Paediatric Conference specifically geared towards medical students and students with an interest in paediatric medicine. This one-of-a-kind conference attracts delegates from over 30 UK medical schools.
This national conference, being organised by a committee of BSMS medical students, aims to deepen the knowledge of medical students of childhood health-conditions beyond our curriculum. We wish to enthuse and prepare students of the benefits and reality of careers in paediatrics.
Acknowledgement of Springboard Grants Programme: In delegate conference handbooks, electives handbooks, in articles in the BSMS newsletter, BSMS student newspaper (The Murmur) and the University of Sussex and University of Brighton student newspapers (The Badger and The Verse, respectively) and the BSMS Medical Society (MedSoc) website.
Amount allocated: £1000.00
Impact report will be posted shortly.
Miss Phoebe O’Donnell (Student, On behalf of Brighton Uni Radio Production (BURP))
Purpose of Grant: To buy sound recording equipment in order to enable students around Brighton to produce their own shows, podcasts and interviews so they can be played out on the student radio station, Burst.
Current students will be provided with an opportunity to sell their work, probably for the first time to the public and to fundraise for their graduate shows for which they need to raise several thousands of pounds. Students already have stalls in the foyer throughout the year where they sell their artwork to raise funds and our idea is to bring these together and promote it to the local community and visitors to Brighton during the festival. This will increase the student experience, will generate income and bring the community and visitors to Brighton into the University site.
Acknowledgement of Springboard Grants Programme: In social media and the website.
Amount allocated: £837.84
Impact report will be posted shortly.
Ms Rebecca Brueton (Student, On behalf of BURST Radio)
Purpose of Grant: To create a series of masterclasses delivered by media industry professionals, designed for media, radio & tv students, open to all students and staff interested in working in Media and Communications.
Acknowledgement of Springboard Grants Programme: In promotional material and on the website.
Amount allocated: £500.00
Impact report will be posted shortly.
