Call for applications: Curriculum Innovation Travel Grants

Although we decided the suggestion of staff teaching classes at other universities was too complex a model in the timescale, we have taken forward the spirit of this recommendation, facilitating visits to share good practice, through a travel grants scheme which is now available. Curriculum Innovation Travel Grants are made available to lecturers to support travel between institutions and subsistence for one of the following reasons: 1. To pay for the travel of a speaker to offer a seminar on an innovative curriculum development used elsewhere that the institution is interested in taking up; 2. To pay for the travel of a member of staff to travel to observe an innovative curriculum development in practice that the institution is interested in taking up; 3. To pay for travel to bring together members of staff from two institutions to discuss collaboration on innovative curriculum development. Bids to this fund must demonstrate a credible plan for transfer of practice or new innovation. In order to avoid money being spent on activities that produce no outcomes, grants will not be issued for highly speculative activities. Funding will not be available for attendance at conferences.