In 2023-24 the College of Arts Social Sciences and Humanities EDI committee presented two bursary schemes for undergraduate students:
The CoASSH Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) Student Bursaries aimed to provide students with the opportunity to share work on an important subject matter to reach a wider audience, developing skills and knowledge in the process. The projects should aim to showcase work, research, theories and voices that may not traditionally have been seen or heard.
The CoASSH Undergraduate Student Bursaries aimed to provide students with the opportunity to share work on an important subject matter to reach a wider audience, developing skills and knowledge in the process. The projects should aim to showcase work, research, theories and voices that reflect their subject of study, interdisciplinary approaches are also welcomed.
Two LSHH students were awarded bursaries, in Conservation and English:
Erin Fountain (English) was awarded a CoASSH Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) Student Bursary for the research project ‘Villainy and Disability: The Presentation of PTSD in J.M. Barrie’s Peter Pan‘. The project aimed to discuss how the sanitised Disney version of Peter Pan has furthered negative stereotypes of mental and physical disability. Erin explored how Hook is presented in J.M. Barrie’s children’s novel and how Barrie’s expected audience leaves the text open to furthering negative stereotypes through to today: within the original source text, Erin found, the role of villain is not as easy to give as the Disney version of Peter Pan makes us believe but is rather muddied by the actions of both Peter and Hook. The poster presenting Erin’s research can be accessed via this link (PDF).
Tinashe Chipawe (Conservation) was awarded a CoASSH Undergraduate Student Bursary to create ‘The Layers of Cultural Diversity’ (2024, below), a piece of artwork that reflects on the principles of equality, diversity, and inclusion (EDI) and the concept of One Community. The image draws inspiration from paint samples sourced from the architectural paint research field: Architectural paint research is a highly specialised and relatively new research tool that allows the decorative history and archaeological development of a building to be discovered. There are very few professional paint researchers and Lincoln Conservation has a reputation for excellence in this field.
