Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Project Award 2025-26 now open for applications
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 2025/26 we are offering the opportunity for students to run a zine project or self-propose a project.
A zine is a handmade self-published magazine, focused on personal, political, or unconventional topics. We are looking for students who would like to run zine workshops or create their own zine and campaign/ publicise this. The zine project is open to all students, we do not require any prior knowledge/ experience. Just come up with a topic relating to EDI that you are passionate about! We have a self-publishing zine expert, Becky Kidner, working in the Faculty who is keen to share their experience and support students with their projects.
Credit Becky Kidner
We also welcome self-proposed ideas and projects.
So be creative and innovative. Past self-proposed ideas have been AI Art workshops for third culture kids, 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.
Figure 1: 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.
Apply now
To apply, please complete the application form by Sunday 14 December 2025, 11:59 pm.
Drop-in sessions
There will be an online drop-in session from 14:00-14:30 on Tuesday 2 December to provide information and answer questions about the scheme.
There will be an in-person drop-in session to learn more about the zine project from 14:00-15:00 on Thursday 4 December, Parkinson SR (2.15), 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 2 December between 14:30-16:00. Please book here.
For further information, please email Susan Preston, Faculty Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Project Officer.
