Community engagement opportunities for staff and students

Here are all our current opportunities. If you are interested in any of them and want to know more, or would like to work with the Community Engagement team at UCL East in another way, you can email us or book a time to speak to a member of the team.

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Reward and Recognition

UCL East Engagement Awards

The UCL East Engagement Awards celebrate staff, students, partners and projects that have exemplified mutually beneficial engagement between UCL and our east London communities. We expect nominations to open again in Summer 2026.

Read about the inaugural award winners.

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Funding

Community Engagement Seed Fund

The UCL East Community Engagement Seed Fund is a small grants funding round for UCL staff and post graduate research students. It is designed to support the development of engagement activities and partnership opportunities with east London communities. We expect to fund six grants of up to £4,000. Closed for 25/26

Community Engagement Seed Fund

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Community Engagement Development Funding

This is a small grants funding scheme for UCL staff and post graduate research students who have previously received funding for engagement projects in east London. It is designed to build capacity for previously funded projects to deepen the impact of ongoing engagement practice. We expect to fund grants of between £2,000 - £4,000. Accepting applications.

Community Engagement Development Funding

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Connecting with others

Networking with east London communities

We run networking events with east London Voluntary and Community Sector, and arts and Culture Sector organisations.

Liveable Cities Networking Event

Please leave your details to hear about these when they are confirmed.
Get in touch with the team to suggest themes for these meetings, or to collaborate on an event.

Workshops and Training

Skills development for community engagement

We deliver programmes and workshops for UCL staff and students around skills and knowledge for community engagement.

We developed a series of online modules in public and community engagement.

self-paced public engagement training

Please leave your details to hear about these when they are confirmed.
Get in touch with the team to suggest workshop ideas.

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The Creative Engagement Fellowship

An opportunity for 8 PhD students undertaking research in areas relevant to the ESRC or AHRC, and with an interest in creative approaches to community engagement, to join an exciting new training programme. The Creative Engagement Fellowship will support you to develop your engaged research skills and expand your knowledge of the arts and cultural sector.

Find out more.

Applications now closed. Contact engagement-east@ucl.ac.uk about potential future rounds.

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