THE SHEFFIELD GRADUATE AWARD 2014/5 – THEMES AND RELATED ACTIVITIES
Enterprise
Student jobs and work
experience
Volunteering
Cultural and Social
Internationalisation
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Enterprise ‘Skills Build’
Certificate (achieved)
Business Planning
Competition (finalists
only)
SIFE/ENACTUS
‘Genesys’ project mentor
Set up/run own business
(HRMC reg)
Summer Boot Camp
Enterprise Student
Interns
Personal Finance
Module (achieved)
Formula student
Creative Media
workshops
IBM Business Challenge
(semi or finalists)
Aerospace Challenge
Competitions, e.g.
BarSoc, RBM challenge,
Energy 2B, Robotics
European Computer
Driving Licence (ECDL)
Enterprise Activities
/Events (approved)
AIESEC Executive Board
member
AIESEC Team member
SU Investment Soc
Simurq Electronics
Legal Advocacy
(finalists)
Ed Bram Mooting
competition
Enterprise Summer
School
Sheffield Student Market
SIID Share challenge
team member
Behaviour Change
Challenge
Interviews and
Applications MOOC
Careers Service
Mentoring Programme
301 Academic Skills
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Achieved Skills for
Work Certificate
(SfWC)
Paid/unpaid vacation
work in home country
or UK
Paid/unpaid part time
work, e.g. bar, library
shelving asst, life
guard
Sabbatical Officer
(u/g)
Camp America
Campus brand
managers
Nuffield bursary
Award (u/grad
scheme)
SURE (Sheffield
undergraduate
research experience)
Welcome Trust
Placement (NFC)
Internship (NFC)
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Advocacy/Mediation e.g.
advice services, youth
offender panel
Befriending/Mentoring e.g.
The Cellar Space, SOVA
Children e.g. Project Buzz,
South Yorkshire scouts
Elderly e.g. good neighbour
scheme, lunch clubs, lost
chord
Health e.g. Shield, Second
Nature Life Support
Homelessness e.g. The
Sunday Centre, St Wilfred’s
Refugees/Asylum Seekers
e.g. Sheffield conversation
club, RIES mentoring,
Embrace
Schools Project e.g.
mentoring (Secondary),
Special needs tutoring,
classroom support
Social Work e.g. Youth
Offending Service,
Safe@Last, Endeavour
Special Needs e.g. Sheffield
mencap and gateway, Inside
Out,
Sports e.g. Energise
Tutoring e.g. cellar space,
Whirlow Hall Farm
Oxfam, Cats shelter
Officer Training Corps (OTC)
Duke of Edinburgh Award
FreeLaw project (NFC)
Science Brainwaves
Community Rendez-Vous
LEAP
SIID Share volunteer
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Sports club colours (achieved)
Establishing and running
sports clubs, societies,
committees and student
groups
Entertainments manager
Journalist: e.g. Forge Press,
Stiletto
Sign language (BSL
accredited)
Society/Club committee
member
Significant charity fund raising
e.g. BUMMIT, RAG, half/full
Marathons only
Musician –Chamber,
ensemble, soloist
Student film Workshops,
filming/video editing
Identity – chaplaincy
Sheffield University Radio
Sole caring responsibilities*
Theatre archive interviews
Religion and belief/Interfaith
tandem learning
Engineers without Borders
(EWB)
Elite sports performance
scheme (ESPS)
Justice and Violence Project
(NFC)
Faiths Forum
International cultural evening
Barnardo’s Society
Motorsport Marshalling
Representation and
Democracy
SPRINT
SU Officer Campaign
(Candidates only)
Student Communication officer
SIID Share committee
member/fundraising team
member.
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Community/voluntary
group work (international)
International paid /non paid
work experience (not
assessed/accredited as
part of course and not in
your home
country(international)
Meet and Greet Assistants
Teaching international
students (recognised)
Elective summer language
courses (NFC)
English Language Support
Assistant
USIC buddy scheme
Intercultural Awareness
with a language (NFC)
Intercultural Awareness via
on line learning (achieved)
Sheffield Confucius
Institute, culture/language
courses
Teaching partners English
classes (ELTC)
International Summer
School (Thessaloniki)
MLTC language courses
(NFC)
AEGEE training/event
organising
International Student
Christmas Project
Internationalisation
Ambassador
IEU open days, fairs,
welcome meetings
AIESEC internship
International hosting
programme
Internationalisation
Engineer
SheffMUN
Discovery Week Asst
SIID Share International
Development Intern
The University and its Community
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Union Counsellor
Mentor/tutor to support Halls
of Residence
Intro week assistant
Sheffield Mentors scheme
Academic Committee
Faculty/course Representation
Learning Resource Asst
Departmental ‘buddy’
schemes
Royal Geographic
ambassador scheme
GIS student demonstrators
Communities project
(Endcliffe)
Peer
mentoring/tutoring/outreach
Ambassador/Support worker
(disabled, dyslexic/dyspraxic
students)
Student panel member,
(periodic review)
Tour guide, Edge village
Boeing Scholarship
Gabby Foundation summer
school
Student Colloquia Tutor
Green impact - SUSSED
Recording for Global
education outreach
Ambassadorial roles, eg
Volunteering, STEM,SALT
Music/Philosophy/History in
the City (NFC)
Student involvement in
development/ alumni relations
US in schools
Supervision of Aerospace
Simulator
Dept Enterprise Link
PASS leader
Campaigning for SU elections
as officer
SIID Share Teaching and
Learning Support
Certificate
NFC = Not for Credit. This list is not exhaustive and if you don’t see your activity listed, please remember that the list is constantly expanding. However, if you do use an activity not on the list, you will need to check
with the SGA team that it is eligible PRIOR to submission of your portfolio and provide reliable evidence to support the activity. The information contained in your plan will help us make a decision as to whether an
activity is eligible for inclusion in the Award.