Students volunteer to experience and explore working in museums, archives and libraries at the Museum of English Rural Life (MERL). Volunteering is accredited through a link with Reading University Students' Union RED (Reading Experience and Development) Award.
Using special events (e.g., Apple Day) to enable researchers and academics to engage with the wider public. It started as information about apples, apple tasting, access to archive materials and a talk. It has become a larger scale event including activities for all the family and the opportunity...
Future animals: Friend or Food?
‘Future animals’ was an integrated arts and science project that brought together teenagers, Cardiff University staff and students, Amgueddfa Cymru - National Museum Wales, and an artist to discuss how human manipulation of past animals produced animals of the present day, and to design animals for...
Award developed by the University of York to provide recognition of the skills developed through academic study, work experience and leisure interests carried out whilst at university
Learning Community Partnership
This case study shows how the University of Gloucestershire worked to create a new school, and a whole learning community.
UCL Step Out and other adventures
A collaboration between UCL's public engagement unit and their volunteering services unit to encourage postgraduate students to develop public engagement projects.
A collaborative one-day informal learning & community engagement event themed around aspects of medieval society to celebrate Adult Learners Week, held at Cosmeston, a reconstructed medieval village near Cardiff
Practical Piracy is a series of workshops led by post-graduate researchers from the University of Warwick to engage children with their research in a fun and engaging manner.
A National Trust Student Ambassador hosted a Mad Hatter's Tea Party at the University of Plymouth to raise awareness of the National Trust among the student body.
Quality Streets - Participatory research in Stoke’s UniQ
Quality Streets is a participatory consultation in the neighbourhood of the University. The project involved local residents and workers, and students as a community research team to find out what people think about the area.
The Whitworth’s student engagement programme is pioneering a model where the students are active learners, and co-producers. This way of working impacts upon both the students and gallery staff as co-learners and provides provide an empowering platform for student talent, creativity, vision and...
A 24 hour bodiversity study carried out in six university campuses across the country in 2010, offering a diversity of student volunteering opportunities and engaging people from across communities.
Since 2005 occupational therapy students have participated in the Study of Occupation course from first to fourth year, a component of which involves service-learning through the ‘Study of Occupation Practice’ (SOOP) course.
The promotion of using computer game design in education. To inspire and interest 12–14 year old school pupils in computer science by giving them opportunities to make computer games in the classroom.
Social Policy into Practice - learning through volunteering
An optional 20 credit module in the second year of the BA Social Policy degree at the University of Birmingham. It enables students to volunteer locally, giving an opportunity to gain practical experience of organisations and settings in which social policy is put into practice at ‘ground level’...
Two to the Left, Two to the Right
A fun event to raise awareness of the positive impact of students in the community.
Through community placements, undergraduate and MSc students studying entrepreneurship at the University of Southampton were given the chance to work with social enterprises as part of their assessed coursework.
Garden Share Feasibility Study
Student volunteers from the University of Bath led a feasibility study into the use of student gardens as allotments for local residents in the Oldfield Park area of the city
London Student Volunteers Fortnight
In 2009 nine London universities came together with multiple community organisations and schools to coordinate a broad range of volunteering events and programmes across London, a pilot which has developed into an annual event.
Manchester Leadership Programme
An academically accredited programme to produce leaders of the future, and help the integration of the university within its community.
