Small Grants
The Community Engagement Team strives to support and develop public engagement throughout the University. To this end we run an annual small grants scheme offering grants of up to £500 to support academic staff and PhD researchers to undertake public engagement activities.
Projects funded in 2013:
School of Biosciences, Dr Rosalind John – A series of activities on the theme of ‘Maternal lifestyle and healthy babies’
School of Biosciences, Dr Elisabetta Canetta - Series of three workshops on ‘Understanding the natural process of human cells using physics’
School of City and Regional Planning & School of Architecture, Dr Andrea Frank & Dr Marga Munar Bauza – Exhibition and events based around student urban design work
School of Earth and Ocean Sciences, Ian Fryett – ‘Exploring the underwater world’ – boat based scientific cruise around Cardiff Bay
School of Earth and Ocean Sciences, Kate Walker – A series of podcasts ‘What everyone should know about climate change’
School of English, Communication and Philosophy, Helen Mckenzie – ‘Victorian Popular Culture’ - a study day for ‘A’ level students
School of English, Communication and Philosophy, Shelagh Weeks – Creative writing workshops with local secondary schools
School of Engineering, Michelle Davies – public engagement activities with ’Cardiff Racing’ the formula student racing team.
School of European Languages, Translation and Politics, Mirona Moraru – ‘The Human Library’ - an event designed to allow people to share their different multilingual experiences.
School of Medicine, Dr Rose Thompson – ‘Epilepsy Stories Collection’ – developing digital stories with people with epilepsy
School of Medicine, Dr Danielle Huckle – Digital storytelling for the Mushin Museum of anaesthetics
School of Physics and Astronomy, Dr Edward Gomez – Production of astronomy activity booklets for 5-11 year olds
School of Psychology, Dr Derek Jones – ‘Brain Games’ primary school assemblies
School of History, Archaeology and Religion, Dr Jacqui Mulville - Guerilla Archaeology at summer festivals
If you would like any further information about the scheme please contact Community@cardiff.ac.uk