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Are you a final year undergraduate, Masters or PHD student looking for a ‘hands on’ project either for your dissertation, or to gain practical experience in your field?
Science Shops Wales may be able to help you. We are a community university partnership which seeks to match up final year undergraduate, Masters and PHD students to community groups who are seeking help with assistance with a research project.
Community and voluntary groups often require specialist skills to develop their work. The Science Shop can put these groups in touch with students who might be able to work with them.
By undertaking a Science Shop Wales Project, students and researchers can strengthen community/university links, develop research with real local relevance, and gain valuable, ‘real-world’ experience. Our database includes projects in art, business studies, education, engineering, sustainable development, and the social sciences.
Students benefit by gaining:
- Practical experience which may enhance future employment prospects
- Access to ready-made, clearly defined projects
- The opportunity to develop specific skills
- The opportunity to carry out work useful to a community
- An opportunity to learn key skills and core competences such as team working, project and time management and negotiation skills
- An opportunity to learn new skills and techniques from the community group with whom they work
- An opportunity to network with charities and community organisations, which may in turn, improve student career prospects
- Overseas and other differently-cultured students encounter increased opportunities to experience local cultures and customs
Science Shops Wales holds an extensive database of student research projects including:
- Bio-diversity audits
- market research for community businesses
- a feasibility study to install a wind turbine on school premises
- a technical feasibility study to install micro-hydro energy generation at the offices of a local community group
- assess the possibility of creating an earth sculpture that is sufficiently robust to be used as a BMX course
- traffic assessment within a village to improve flow of transportation
For more information contact Kim Fitzgerald at kafitzge@glam.ac.uk
16/12/09
Based on the success of his final dissertation and project, a Master’s Mechanical Engineering student from Glamorgan University’s Faculty of Advanced Technology has been offered work by his host organisation after successfully completing a final project arranged by Science Shops Wales.
Julien approached SSW looking for his dissertation project in July 2009 and went on to develop a cooker, powered by short rotation coppice willow, and designed on rocket stove principles. The project was put forward to Science Shops Wales by LAMMAS, a low-impact eco-village located in West Wales.
Julien successfully completed his dissertation to a very high standard in September 2009 and subsequently graduated. Julien was then offered the chance to develop a prototype of the cooker for Lammas; a rare and invaluable opportunity for any graduate! Julien said “I am delighted to have this chance to work for LAMMAS, it would not have happened if I hadn’t taken this project with Science Shops Wales. It is not often that students have the chance to bring their research to life, but this is set to become a reality for me which I am extremely grateful for”.
Through the Student Research Service, Science Shops Wales provides an enriched experience of higher education for students by supporting opportunities to develop employment and transferable skills through accredited participation in community based projects. Julien said “Working with LAMMAS and Science Shops Wales greatly improved my CV and skills. I worked with a group of wonderful people I would never have met otherwise and the project motivated me to reconsider the direction of my future career. I now want to work with renewable energy technology because of my experience with LAMMAS and Science Shops Wales.
Julien’s summary report can be found online here. |
GWEITHIO GYDA NI: Myfyrwyr
Gwnewch Wahaniaeth!
Ydych chi’n fyfyriwr israddedig blwyddyn olaf neu radd Meistr neu PhD yn chwilio am brosiect ymchwil ymarferol naill ai ar gyfer eich traethawd neu er mwyn ennill profiad ymarferol yn eich maes?
Gallai Siopau Gwyddoniaeth Cymru eich helpu. Partneriaeth rhwng y gymuned â’r brifysgol ydym ni sydd yn ceisio matsio myfyrwyr blwyddyn olaf neu radd Meistr neu PhD i grwpiau cymunedol sydd yn ceisio cymorth gyda phrosiect ymchwil.
Yn aml mae angen sgiliau arbenigol ar grwpiau cymunedol a gwirfoddol er mwyn datblygu eu gwaith. Gall y Siop Wyddoniaeth gysylltu’r grwpiau hyn â’r myfyrwyr a allai weithio gyda nhw.
Drwy ymwneud â Phrosiect Siopau Gwyddoniaeth Cymru, gall myfyrwyr ac ymchwilwyr gryfhau cysylltiadau cymuned/prifysgol, datblygu ymchwil sydd wir yn berthnasol yn lleol, ac ennill profiad gwerthfawr yn y byd go iawn. Mae ein cronfa ddata yn cynnwys prosiectau yn y celfyddydau, astudiaethau busnes, addysg, peirianneg, datblygiad cynaliadwy, a’r gwyddorau cymdeithasol.
Bydd myfyrwyr yn elwa drwy ennill:
- Profiad ymarferol allai wella cyfleoedd am waith yn y dyfodol
- Mynediad i brosiectau parod, wedi eu diffinio’n fanwl
- Y cyfle i ddatblygu sgiliau penodol
- Y cyfle i wneud gwaith sydd yn ddefnyddiol i’r gymuned
- Cyfle i ennill sgiliau allweddol a chymwyseddau craidd megis gweithio mewn tîm, rheoli prosiect ac amser, a sgiliau trafod
- Cyfle i ddysgu sgiliau a thechnegau newydd gan y grŵp cymunedol y byddant yn gweithio ag ef
- Cyfle i rwydweithio gydag elusennau a chyrff cymunedol, a all yn ei dro wella cyfleoedd am waith i’r myfyriwr
- Bydd myfyrwyr tramor ac o ddiwylliannau gwahanol yn dod ar draws cyfleoedd pellach i brofi diwylliannau ac arferion lleol
Mae gan Siopau Gwyddoniaeth Cymru gronfa ddata eang o brosiectau ymchwil i fyfyrwyr gan gynnwys:
- archwiliadau bioamrywiaeth
- ymchwil i’r farchnad ar gyfer busnesau cymunedol
- astudiaeth ymarferoldeb gogyfer â gosod tyrbin gwynt ar fuarth ysgol
- astudiaeth ymarferoldeb technegol gogyfer â gosod generadur ynni microhydro yn swyddfeydd grŵp cymunedol lleol
- asesu posibilrwydd creu cerflun pridd sydd yn ddigon cadarn i’w ddefnyddio fel trac BMX
- asesiad traffig o fewn pentref i wella llif y drafnidiaeth
Am wybodaeth bellach cysylltwch â Kim Fitzgerald ar kafitzge@glam.ac.uk
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