teaching fellowship award

I finally had official notification of the award from UCA earlier this week. I was quite surprised that I am to receive all the funding I requested and rather daunted by the prospect of providing a break down of all the costs on a month to month basis through to December. I have researched some costs, tried to anticipate when they may occur and have hopefully put together a reasonable projection.

I have been assigned a mentor, to make sure I clarify and achieve the aims and objectives of the project. KP is UCA's Learning and Teaching Researcher and we met earlier today. I think she will be able to offer me some guidance about measuring the impact and success of the project. She has already suggested that I interview the headmaster and the school children and possibly make an audio recording of their responses to questions about the impact of the project. This has led me to yet another creative idea - cutting audio over the digital grid of images that I hope to make at the end of the project. I need to look into the ethical implications of this - such as the need for releases from my interviewees.

KP also mentioned the governments Aim Higher Scheme and I need to research this to see how my project may meet it's aims and objectives of raising children's aspirations at an early age. 

http://www.aimhigher.ac.uk/programme/home/

In the past I have given plenty of talks in conference-like situations but have usually been invited by the organisers. I have never had to write an abstract and I have never delivered a formal conference paper, so I have asked for guidance on this too.