AHC Student EDI Project Award 26/27
The Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Cultures has launched the EDI Student Project Award fund to support student projects that seek to promote belonging, community and inclusion.
Passionate about Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI)? We want to support you!
The EDI Student Project Award will provide up to £250 to four individuals or groups with a project designed to enhance diversity, equality or inclusion. The scheme is open to all students: undergraduate, postgraduate and postgraduate research who are based in schools belonging to the AHC Faculty.
For 2026/27 we would welcome any self-proposed project, but particularly projects focusing on gender equality.
So be creative and innovative. Past self-proposed ideas have been AI Art workshops for third culture kids, a zine for estranged students, Uli (Nigerian) art workshops, festival of games, a calendar of cultural and religious events and the creation of the first South Asian Feminist society. Check out previous project blogs here.
Photo by Andy Holland, Library Makerspace of the Uli Art Workshop.
Funds can be used for any project that enhances Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion. This could be:
- Holding an event or workshop – a training event, guest speaker, performance or discussion
- Producing a resource (might be information, but equally might be an artistic work)
- Doing a small research project
- Setting up a network
- Or anything else you feel would be of value.
What is important is that you have:
- A clear sense of the aims of your project
- An understanding of the intended audience - who is it for and how do you know it is needed?
- Thought about the practicalities - is it achievable and deliverable in the £250 budget?
- Sought to maximise the impact of your project.
We will also support your project with a staff mentor and show off all you have achieved at either a showcase event, a project video or a blog.
To apply, please complete the application form by Sunday 13 December 2026, 11:59 pm.
Drop-in sessions
There will be an online drop-in information session from 14:00-14:30 on Tuesday 1 December to provide information and answer questions about the scheme.
There will be an in-person drop-in information session from 14:00-15:00 on Thursday 3 December, Clothworkers North Building SR (1.17), with snacks. Please sign up for these here.
To support your application and discuss your idea with staff, students are invited to book a 1:1 informal chat on Microsoft Teams on Tuesday 1 December between 14:30-16:00. Please book here.
For further information, please contact Susan Preston, Faculty Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Project Officer.
