The CEPPL is keen to encourage, and work with, others who are interested in placement learning. To this end, we offer a number of opportunities for those wishing to secure funding for small projects in relation to teaching and learning and that support the overall aims of the CEPPL in terms of transformative placement learning.
Further details on these opportunities are provided below.
Innovation Funds
Innovation Funds 2008 -2009: Applications for our 2008 -2009 Innovation funds are now available online. Please download the Innovation Fund application form and the Innovaiton Fund Flyer on the right hand menu. The deadline date for 2008 -2009 Innovation applications is the 23rd June 2008.
The Centre has set aside a sum of money for 2008 -2009 to support small scale learning and teaching projects associated with placement or practice learning for one year. Bids of up to £7,500 are invited.
What can the money be used for? The money can be used in various ways to support the project. For example:
Successfull applicants will become Fellows of the Centre for Excellence in Professional Placement Learning (Ceppl) for the duration of the project.
Workshops supporting bid writing for Innovation Funding are held annually, further information will be available shortly.
For further information on 2005-2006, 2006-2007 and 2007-2008 projects please go to our Funded project page.
Graduate Fellowships
Graduate Fellowships 2008 -2009. Nominations for Graduate Fellowships for the period 2008 -2009 are now invited, please download the Nominator`s and Nominee forms on the right hand side of this menu and the Graduate Fellowhsip flyer for further information. The closing deadline for 2008-2009 nomination forms is 31st July 2008.
Graduate Fellowships are aimed at students who have produced outstanding work-based learning or project work, at undergraduate or master`s level that has the potential to impact on practice/placement learning and teaching and/or on the delivery of care to the service user. In our experience the excellent work such students produce often goes no further because they enter employment or are not given the opportunity to disseminate their work. The aim of these Fellowships is to reward students for excellence by awarding them a Fellowship with the Centre that gives them access to the resources and support they require to disseminate their work appropriately.
The CEPPL offers up to five Graduate Fellowships annually. The funding is used to release the graduate from their employment (if employed), or pay for the equivalent of a full month`s salary, to enable them work with the CEPPL to disseminate their project. Release arrangements are agreed with employers, and arrangements vary from part-time day-release to blocks of time. All graduate fellows have an appointed mentor with whom they work and have access to office space, e-mail and internet, library facilities and some media production.
Graduate fellows are expected to disseminate their work via an appropriate means - this is agreed with the mentor and CEPPL director and may be a journal article, a conference paper, or a workshop. All outputs are authored by the Fellowship holder and colleagues (where appropriate) and acknowledged as associated with the CEPPL.
The process of application involves nomination by a University of Plymouth academic staff member or an equivalent service staff member, following consultation with the student. The criteria for nomination includes: a first class mark for the relevant piece of work; a clear commitment to disseminate the work through the CEPPL; a clear fit between the piece of work and the aims of the CEPPL; and support from the line manager if the graduate is employed.
For general enquiries or registering your interest in any of the CEPPL`s funding opportunities email ceppl@plymouth.ac.uk or telephone the Centre on 01752 238652