This call has now closed. Judges selected two winning projects in late July and the Doctoral College increased the award money to £600 to be shared by both teams. You can read about the winners along with some of the BLM-related activities of a number of our students in the Summer 2020 Research and Enterprise newsletter. Thanks to everyone who submitted to the call. We will be continuing to support student-led projects in this area and will bring you details of that later in the year.
Black Lives Matter: Call for Project Proposals
Deadline for submission Thursday 23rd July 2020, 5pm
In solidarity with the current Black Lives Matter movement, the Doctoral College in collaboration with Doctoral Researchers Representatives are allocating the Prof David Arnold Fund for a small interdisciplinary project limited to £500. This project wishes to complement other university initiatives engaged in decolonising the University of Brighton (in the broadest sense) and challenging racial injustice (see Decolonising the curriculum and Race Equality Charter for some examples). The Prof David Arnold Fund was established in 2017 in memory of David, former Dean of the Doctoral College.
Doctoral Researchers from different disciplinary backgrounds are invited to work together on a small project running over an eight-week period, resulting in an output of their choosing. The collaborative output – whatever that may be! – will then be shared on the Doctoral College’s digital space. Perhaps you would like to collaborate on a literature review, analyse relevant news articles, critique policy, design a future study, make an art piece… Let your creativity flow! Challenges that your project responds to might include:
- Challenging and deconstructing anti-black racism
- Decolonising the curriculum and academic spaces
- Celebrating Black academics and academics of colour in academia; thinkers, activists or scientists
- Black Lives Matter student engagement
- Institutional Racism, what it looks like in the UK, and how can we make changes
We are looking for a simple project pitch of no more than 500 words (see below for suggested proposal headings). All ideas will be considered. No breakdown of costs will be required; however we ask that all projects do not require ethics approval and involve a minimum of 3 postgraduate students from different disciplinary areas.
The selection committee will consist of PGR student reps and members of the Doctoral College. We will be giving special consideration to projects involving Black and other researchers of colour. Please email your proposal as an attachment to DoctoralCollege@brighton.ac.uk by 5pm on Thursday 23rd of July.
The winning project will be awarded £500. The money can be used for equipment and/or be spread among contributors. No additional funds will be allocated for the project. Any questions, please contact Lorraine Slater (L.Slater@brighton.ac.uk).
Suggested proposal headings – you can use bullet points
Title
Details of contributors: (Name, email, school)
Abstract or Summary [120 words max]
Aims and objectives
What are you going to do? (Methodology and Method)
What do you hope to achieve? (Intended outcomes)
Tasks and timescales (Rough Project plan)
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