Supported projects
Funds raised through the Annual Fund support a variety of projects. During the spring 2012 round of disbursement, 31 projects were supported by the Annual Fund. Please see the table below for further details.
Donations of any amount make a significant and immediate impact upon the quality of the Exeter experience for our students.
| Project | Description | Amount awarded |
|---|---|---|
| Student Peer Coaching Networks | Support to encourage second year undergraduate students and PhD students to meet on a regular basis to provide training and skills development. | £6,100 |
| Exeter Care Homes Reading Project | Funding that will link Exeter University English students with a number of Care Homes in the local community to develop a reading scheme. | £7,530 |
| Law in Transition – From Legal Studies to Legal Practice | Funding to support the post of a qualified supervisor for the Community Legal Helpdesk, a student outreach project based at Exeter County Court. | £15,000 |
| Every Student Volunteers - Discipline based community volunteering | This project will provide funding to support one discipline based volunteering project per College that will benefit up to 50 students per project. | £10,000 |
| Cornwall Campus Central Career and Employability Fund: Enhancing Student/Business/Recruiter Interaction | Funding will be provided to develop parity of recruitment and employability opportunities available for Cornwall students. | £4,500 |
| International Genetically Engineered Machine (iGEM) Competition | The objective of this project is to enable the University to enter its inaugural undergraduate team into the iGEM competition in 2012. iGEM is an international synthetic biology competition where multidisciplinary student teams are given a kit of biological parts with the aim of designing new biological systems and operate them in living cells. | £4,925 |
| First Steps in Publishing | Funding will provide support to allow students the opportunity to gain valuable insight into a career in Publishing. With the aim to equip students with the skills needed to successfully secure their first role in the sector. | £3,000 |
| The Work Placements in the Life and Environmental Sciences Programme | Funding to provide travel bursaries to enable Biosciences and Geography students at Tremough to take up work placement opportunities. | £3,000 |
| Coach Education Fund | Funding for this project will enable the Sports Park to help subsidise National Governing Body coaching qualifications in sports for all students at the University of Exeter. | £15,000 |
| Adding to Academic Excellence: Grand Challenges | Support for this project will be used to fund a number of activities at the end of the academic year that will engage students and encourage them to take part in unique, dynamic, exciting and research-intensive experiences. | £5,000 |
| First Class Acts: Exemplary academic writing skills project | Funding to provide students in Management Discipline with the opportunity to submit their work for publication in a professionally produced university journal. | £1,200 |
| Ghana International Project | Support for this project will allow up to 10 students to visit Ghana to work with both a local school and the local community, teaching both academic subjects and sports. | £1,000 |
| Student Entrepreneur in Residence (SEiR) initiative | Support to expand and secure the future of the Student Entrepreneur in Residence initiative. An initiative involving the Guild working in collaboration with EGD and the Innovation Centre to join up current activity on campus designed to support student enterprise and entrepreneurial activity. | £5,000 |
| Exploring Computer Science Through Interaction | Funding will enhance the engagement of students with Computer Science by increasing their knowledge and understanding of the subject in addition to what is offered at Exeter. Aimed at current students, and those from the wider community, the project will provide the department of Computer Science with a set of resources that will make the subject, particularly Artificial Intelligence, accessible to a much wider audience. | £2,500 |
| Formula Student | Funding to support a Engineering students to take part in the Formula Student Competition, an engineering industry standard project that requires engineering students to design and manufacture a single seater race car. | £5,000 |
| Healthy Halls Programme | Funding will provide a range of activities, talks, seminars, and educational sessions to encourage all students in halls to be active and healthy. The sessions will include; nutrition advice workshops, cooking workshops, personal safety sessions and courses, demonstrations and activities. The activities will include; campus and city walks exploring the Exeter area, running groups from halls, fitness classes, health testing days and sports sessions for the specific halls. | £10,000 |
| Access to Internships - Pilot Scheme | Funding to allow student’s access to Internships support will provide funding and training to help selected students or graduates to access paid internships/placements. | £10,000 |
| Engineering student projects (Industrial Links Database + Evaluation/Feedback) | The aim of the project is to improve the student experience of ‘engineering student projects’ by establishing an ‘Industrial Links Database in addition to setting up an online evaluation and feedback interface between project supervisors and student’s. | £3,000 |
| Touching the Past - Archaeological field school in Roman Devon | As a collaborative venture between the departments of Archaeology, Classics and Ancient History funds will enable and enhance the experience students involved in the planned excavation and post-excavation of a newly identified Roman site. Funding will support the creation of a digital archive to be used in undergraduate teaching and public outreach. | £14,976 |
| Teaching Awards | Funding to support the annual Teaching Awards. The Awards are a vital part of the University community; ensuring that staff from all departments, campuses and roles get a chance to be recognised by the students they support. | £5,000 |
| School Business Enterprise Scheme and Work Experience Development | Funding will create work experience opportunities for Exeter students in partnership with Exeter City Football Club and local schools. | £14,895 |
| University of Exeter Sporting Stars Education Days | Funding will allow the School of Sport and Health Sciences and the Athletic Union to host educational delivery events to local primary and secondary school children, based around the theme of sport. | £15,000 |
| Beating the Blues – self-help support for students with mental health difficulties | Funding to support a self-help computer programme to support students who are struggling with stress, anxiety and depression. | £5,000 |
| Volunteering in Cornwall | Funding will provide support to continue the work of the ‘Volunteering in Cornwall’ project, to encourage History students on the Cornwall Campus to engage in the voluntary sector, nationally and internationally. | £7,656 |
| Five Ways to Wellbeing | This project seeks to apply the “Five Ways to Wellbeing” throughout the University as a series of well-spaced student-led campaigns across all campuses to encourage students to think positively about their mental health. | £3,780 |
| The Medieval Exeter Hub | Funding will help establish an Exeter Medieval Hub for Undergraduate students that will act as a catalyst to promote interaction between Undergraduates in a wide variety of disciplines with a passion for all things medieval. | £4,403 |
| Art Society equipment | Funding has been provided to allow the Art Society to purchase equipment, including an etching press for the Art Studio in Queens. | £4,000 |
| Politics, History and the Challenge of Climate Change | This project will use funds to enable SSIS & the College of Humanities to invite speakers from campaigning organisations involved in the politics of climate change to talk to students taking relevant modules within the humanities and social sciences. | £3,200 |
| Film Practical Skills Workshop | 18 Film students will be taught and coached how to use filming equipment and film software, with the aim of allowing each group to act as a ‘film unit’ that produces a short film centred on an object taken from the Bill Douglas Centre’s film history collection. | £640.08 |
| Footlights | Funding to support the production of ‘A Little Night Music’ at Reed Hall. | £1,000 |
| BeeSoc Hive | Funding to support the design and construction of a unique, state of the art, high-technology hide containing 2 observation hives. | £5,000 |
Projects previously funded
Please click on the files below to find out more information about projects funded in previous rounds of the disbursement process.
