Individual Awards for Engagement 2011/12
 

UEA's Engagement Executive and CUE East have opened this year's call for nominations for the annual Individual Awards Scheme which offers a cash reward of up to £1000 plus an award certificate presented at UEA’s annual Congregation in July. 

The opportunity to send in nominations for the 2011-12 Public and Community Engagement Awards scheme closes on Friday 11th May 2011.

Click here for the Guidance Notes and Nomination forms.

Click here for a list of Individual Award winners for 2010/11.
Individual Award Winners for 2010/11 were all featured in the CUE East Spring/Summer Newsletter.
Previous winners have also contributed to the CUE East Case Study publications on Public Engagement in Teaching and Research.
See also the  Case Studies for the 2008/09 Awards.
The Awards Scheme is open to staff and students of the Norwich Research Park and UEA but nominations are welcomed from community partners.

 

Funding

If your project or activity involves engagement and you would like information about sourcing funding streams (whether relating to Research Awards or otherwise)  as well as advice about planning your activity, CUE East are holding free workshops as part of UEA’s CSED programme for 2011/12. See our Professional Development Opportunities pages or click here for the programme.

CUE East funding streams are part of a four year pilot which will close on 30th June 2012.
Information can be found using the links below:
Sustainable Living Partnership Fund
Enhancement Fund
Small Expenses Fund

Successful 2010/11 applicants for the Sustainable Living Partnership and Enhancement Funds were announced in February 2011. For full details read here or see below for summaries:

Sustainable Living Partnership Fund Projects 2010/11
Biodiversity and Sustainability: A Level Conference Following on from the successful A-level conference in 2010, the International Year of Biodiversity, CUE East has elected to fund a further conference in 2011.
Artists for Climate Change (AfCC) – City Coast and Countryside Norfolk has a carbon emission reduction target of 25% by 2014. This project will explore creative and effective ways to support local schools to reduce their carbon emissions and evolve more sustainable lifestyles.
Broadland Community Climate Change Champions This project aims to help Broadland District communities understand more fully the debate around climate change and the degree to which human-generated CO2 is contributing to global warming.
Elements 2011 CUE East monies will part-fund the community engagement strand of this multiple partnership project worth a total of £46,000.00.This exciting project will bring together some of the best expertise and facilities in East Anglia to explore the themes of sustainability in depth.
Encounters with Butterflies This exciting and innovative project aims to increase awareness of the ecological responses of butterfly populations to climate change and to develop relationships between the local community and scientists.
History, Heritage and Public Engagement Lead by the School of History at UEA, this project will add to the new 3rd year undergraduate module entitled ‘History, Heritage and Public Engagement’. Students will be required to liaise with organisations outside of UEA to create public facing projects designed to engage the public and be of real value to heritage organisations.
Invisible Dust Invisible Dust, an arts and science organisation, has been set up by freelance curator Alice Sharp, and Peter Brimblecombe from UEA, to explore air pollution, health and climate change.
Lost Worlds of Norfolk This unique pilot project will combine both geological fieldwork and the study of fossil poetry in order to help schoolchildren from Sheringham High explore the ancient worlds and primeval creatures who once lived in Norfolk.
Mile Cross Children’s Water Pollution Solution Project The Phoenix Centre, run by a volunteer management committee, is based in the heart of a high social need area of Norwich which has many children attending the centre to take part in holiday schemes. This Phoenix Centre based project aims to enhance the knowledge of local and global issues of water pollution using the expertise of UEA staff and a community artist.
Millennium Babies The Millennium babies project was set up to empower children born in 2000 to make choices that lead to a fairer more sustainable community in the Centre of Norwich. The children are now in year 6 and this project seeks to develop a new creative learning activity called the ‘Oil Game Workshop’.
Social Care and Community Engagement for Older People Building on previous CUE East funding, this project acknowledges the importance of social engagement to enhancing older people’s wellbeing and quality of life, whilst recognising the limited capacity of service providers to offer this under severe financial constraints.
World on the Street This pilot project will involve volunteers facilitating educational activities about sustainability issues of global and local importance with members of the public over the summer at the Forum.
Professional Culture Conflicts This project's aim is to establish a dialogue between the project/UEA and influential practitioners in eg social care, education and health. Recent work by this project’s co-proposers (The Transformation of Adult Social Care, Brown T. & Higham B. Social Enterprise East of England Research & Information paper, 2010) indicates a significant gap between the rhetorical commitment to ‘radical change to culture and practice,’ and the reality of change on the ground. The purpose of this project is to better understand the issues which contribute to this gap, so that practical suggestions can be made to improve professional performance.

Enhancement Fund Projects 2010/11
Aylsham Navigation 2012 Aylsham Navigation was a late eighteenth century navigation that enabled river traffic from Aylsham and surrounding communities to reach Great Yarmouth and beyond. This project focuses on helping the local community celebrate the history of the nine mile stretch of the navigation, as they research its history and impact on the towns and villages along the River Bure.
Norfolk’s Secret Seaside The next twelve months will see ecosystems off the coast of Norfolk become designated ‘Marine Protection Zones’. The aim of this project is to raise awareness of the importance of the marine environment for people and wildlife. 

The 2009/10 CUE East funded projects were -
Sustainable Living Partnership Fund Projects 2009/10
Business Breakfasts - Hosted by Shaping Norfolk’s Future
Sustainable Long Term Care for Older People
Ecopoetry in Schools and Beyond - Joint venture between UEA’s School of Literature, School of American Studies, the Norfolk Wildlife Trust and Norfolk County Council
Food for the Future - A Norwich school, Lionwood Junior, is encouraging pupils and parents to look at their food preparation, usage and wastage in a more sustainable way.
The Sustainability Resource Centre - Staff and pupils at Costessey Junior School are linking up with their local community to create stimulating multifunctional outdoor spaces.
Invisible Dust - Leading world scientists and postgraduate students at UEA and link to local artists and schools.
SEAL and the Vulnerable Teenagers - Integrating marginalised young people into the mainstream by bringing them into contact with peers and UEA staff and students.
The Big Urban Heat Experiment - BBC East and UEA’s School of Environmental Sciences running a community experiment.
Inspire Discovery Centre: Young Persons Science Café
Sixth Form Conference - A one-day sixth form conference hosted by the Castle Museum.

Enhancement Fund Projects 2009/10
Teacher Scientist Network (TSN) - Chalk Box - Creating another Resource Box for the charity.
Science, Art & Writing (SAW) Training Workshop - Training for post graduates from science and the arts at the University and the Norwich University College of the Arts.
UEA School of History - Public Health in Medieval England - Showcasing students’ work via an innovative and bespoke website.
Norfolk Coastal Encounters - A pilot model for community, UEA and partnership engagement and builds on the excellent feedback received from the Mundesley Encounters Culture in the Countryside project in 2009.
UEA School of World Art Studies & Museology - World Art in the City - A series of twelve accessible, lively and well illustrated public lectures from April to June 2010.

Further details of the successful applications for funding in the 2010 round can be found here. and details of the 2008/09 CUE East funded projects are available by request to community@uea.ac.uk.