The University of Lincoln has teamed up with Santander Universities to deliver a lifechanging scholarship to one of our students.
According to research conducted by The Independent, more than a fifth of young students at UK universities from the most disadvantaged social backgrounds drop out of studies before the end of their first year.
In response, Santander Universities has developed a new flagship scholarship programme aimed at breaking down barriers for students who are likely to face financial and social challenges during Higher Education.
For the successful applicant, the scholarship is worth a total of £30,000 over three years. £10,000 each academic year until 2025.
The Scholarship provides funding to support one University of Lincoln student from a disadvantaged background, along with training and development opportunities, to get them all the way to graduation.
Applications are now open for the Scholarship and will close at 11pm on 31 January 2023.
To apply for the Santander Universities Scholarship you must be over 18 and be from one of the below underrepresented groups :
Black, Asian and minority ethnic students
Mature students
Disabled students
Care experienced students
Carers
Students estranged from their families
Students from Gypsy, Roma and Traveller communities
Refugees
Students from military families
Applicants must not be receiving more than £1,500 per academic year in external sponsorship.
All students must be able to confirm they meet the above criteria during the application.
For more information and to apply for the Scholarship, visit: lncn.ac/santandersp
University of Lincoln students and staff have the chance to win a pair of tickets to see award-winning journalist and author Will Self in conversation at this October’s Lincoln Book Festival.
Will Self will make a guest author appearance in a book festival headline event sponsored by the University of Lincoln which will be held in the Stephen Langton Building on Thursday 14th October 2021, starting 6.30pm. He will be in conversation with Dr Guy Mankowski, programme leader for MA Creative Writing in Lincoln’s School of English and Journalism, discussing his latest book, Will – a powerful, funny memoir about past struggles with addiction.
Will Self is the author of many novels and books of non-fiction, including Great Apes, How the Dead Live, The Butt (winner of the Bollinger Everyman Prize for Comic Fiction), and Umbrella, which was shortlisted for the Booker Prize.
To enter the Lincoln Book Festival 2021 ticket competition, answer the following question:
What is the title of Will Self’s first published collection of short stories, which first appeared in paperback in 1991?
The winners will be chosen at random from entrants submitting the correct answer and will receive a pair of tickets to the event.
Send your answer to competitions@lincoln.ac.uk by 5pm on Wednesday 6th October with your contact information (email and phone number) for a chance to win. Winners will need to collect their prize from the Brayford Pool Campus prior to the event. Terms and conditions apply (see link).
Lincoln Book Festival runs 11-17 October 2021 and brings acclaimed novelists, historians, journalists and broadcasters to the city for a celebration of great fiction and non-fiction. Guest authors include Loyd Grossman, Christy Lefteri, Annie Garthwaite, and Mark Billingham. Tickets for most author events are priced £10. There are free events too – including a showcase of student work from Lincoln’s Creative Writing programme!
The University is piloting a new Q&A chatbot designed to offer staff and students support with out-of-hours ICT queries – and needs your help to test and train the system.
Developed by a ICT and a team of computer science students using Microsoft’s AI (artificial intelligence) and language processing technology, the bot has already been primed with a series of frequently asked questions to build its knowledge base ready to answer common ICT queries. It now needs to be launched “into the wild” to field genuine questions to further develop its ability to understand and respond coherently to ICT service desk requests. More University services will be added to the bot’s knowledge base after the pilot phase.
Staff and students can help in piloting the fledgling bot with their ICT questions and queries on the pilot platform: https://lncn.ac/chatbot
Currently known simply as Ask the Bot, the bot also needs a suitable name. Staff and students can enter their suggestions for a name for the bot using the Submission Form by clicking here (opens in Microsoft Forms).
A panel of staff and students will select their preferred name from those submitted. The person who submits the chosen name will win a prize of a £50 Amazon voucher. Terms and conditions apply (see more below).
Name the Bot Staff and Student Competition 2019 – Terms & Conditions
The promoter is: the University of Lincoln (known as ‘the University’).
These terms and conditions apply to “Name the Bot Staff and Student Competition 2019” known as ‘the Competition’.
There is no entry fee to enter the Competition.
To enter you must be a currently enrolled student at the University of Lincoln or a member of University staff.
By entering the Competition, an entrant is indicating his/her agreement to be bound by these terms and conditions.
To enter the Competition eligible entrants must submit their suggested name using the Submission Form before the deadline of 30th November 2019.
No responsibility can be accepted for entries not received for whatever reason.
Entrants accept that by submitting the Form their name will be made known to the Promoter.
Any prize for winning this competition will be detailed in an email to the winner.
The prize consists of a £50 Amazon voucher.
No alternative to the prize will be offered.
Prizes are subject to availability and we reserve the right to substitute any prize with another of equivalent value without giving notice.
The winning submission will be chosen by a panel appointed by the Promoter. The panel’s decision is final and no correspondence will be entered into.
The winner will be notified by email before 13th December. If the winner cannot be contacted or does not claim the prize by 20th December they will forfeit the prize.
The promoter’s decision in respect of all matters to do with the competition will be final and no correspondence will be entered into.
The entrant agrees to the use of his/her entry in any publicity material associated with the Competition.
Any personal data relating to the winner or any other entrants will be used solely in accordance with current UK data protection legislation.
The promoter reserves the right to cancel or amend the competition and these terms and conditions without notice at any time. Any changes to the competition will be notified to entrants as soon as possible by the promoter.
The competition and these terms and conditions will be governed by English law and any disputes will be subject to the exclusive jurisdiction of the courts of England.
The University of Lincoln has tickets for this month’s Lincoln Book Festival to give away to staff and student competition winners.
The tickets are for one of the week-long literary festival’s headline author events, in which county-born historian Tracy Borman will discuss her debut novel, ‘The King’s Witch’, at Lincoln’s Drill Hall theatre on the evening of Saturday 29th September.
Tracy is Joint Chief Curator of Historic Royal Palaces, the charity that manages heritage sites including Hampton Court Palace, Kew Palace and the Tower of London. Her non-fiction books include ‘The Private Lives of the Tudors: Uncovering the Secrets of Britain’s Greatest Dynasty’, ‘Thomas Cromwell: The Untold Story of Henry VIII’s Most Faithful Servant’, and ‘Witches: A Tale of Sorcery, Scandal and Seduction’.
Described as “a compelling tale of corruption, danger and coruscating suspicion”, ‘The King’s Witch’ is her debut novel and is set around the infamous Gunpowder Plot of 1605.
To enter the Lincoln Book Festival 2018 ticket competition, answer the following question:
The 1605 Gunpowder Plot was an attempt to assassinate which English monarch?
Winners will be chosen at random from entrants submitting the correct answer and will receive a pair of tickets to the event, which takes place on Saturday 29th September, starting 6.15pm at Lincoln Drill Hall.
Send your answer to competitions@lincoln.ac.uk by 5pm on Wednesday 26th September with your contact information (email and phone number) for a chance to win. Winners will be notified the day after the closing date and will need to collect their prize from the Communications, Development and Marketing Department, 2nd Floor Minerva Building, Brayford Campus, by close of business on Friday 28th September. Terms and conditions apply (see below).
Lincoln Book Festival runs 22nd – 29th September and brings acclaimed novelists, historians, journalists and broadcasters to the city for a celebration of the finest history writing and historical fiction. This year’s festival has the theme revolution as tribute to the centenary of The Representation of The People Act which first gave some British women the right to vote. Guest authors include Michael Morpurgo, Marcus Chown, Sally Nicholls, Rebecca Fraser, Jane Robinson, Maggie Andrews, Jan Lomas, John Robb, Marc Mulholland, and Tracy Borman. There are also writers workshops, fringe theatre events and an open mic poetry evening. See: www.lincolnbookfestival.org
Following the successful artwork competition for the signature wall in the Isaac Newton Building, the University of Lincoln has launched another student artwork competition to find an original piece for the entrance of the new Sarah Swift Building.
The artwork, which should be on the theme of “Understanding People”, will be mounted facing the main entrance and therefore visible from the road, railway and internal staircase. It is hoped that the artwork will be appropriate to the building and be in keeping with the building.
This exciting opportunity is open to enrolled students of the University from across all Schools. The first prize is a new Apple MacBook Pro worth over £2,000.
Collaborations between staff and students are particularly welcome.
Get your cameras or smartphones ready! From our urban architecture, allotments, parks and commons, out into the woodlands, fields, riverbanks and beaches, there’s an abundance of wildlife out there. It could be a fox, a falcon, a beetle or a badger – we want to see your best photographs that represent the wild creatures, large or small, living around us.
The prize
Shortlisted images will be presented to Visiting Professor Chris Packham via a pop-up exhibition held at the University of Lincoln at the end of October. Four winning photographers will each receive a prize of a £25 Amazon voucher and be invited to join Chris on a visit to the set of a television wildlife production in 2018.
Chris Packham
How to enter
Upload your photographs to Instagram using #ULWildlifeComp17 or email them to competitions@lincoln.ac.uk (Max 4MB as JPEG or JPG). You can enter up to four photographs in your submission.
Deadline for entries is midday on Thursday 26th October. Shortlisted entrants will be notified on Monday 30th October and invited to the pop-up exhibition the following day, where winners will be announced by Chris Packham.
Full terms and conditions can be found below.
Chris Packham Wildlife Photography Competition 2017 Terms & Conditions
PROMOTER
The Promoter of this Competition is: the University of Lincoln, Brayford Pool, Lincoln, LN6 7TS, United Kingdom.
ELIGIBILITY
There is no entry fee to enter this Competition but to be eligible you must be a student currently enrolled at the University of Lincoln (as at 1st October 2017). University staff, alumni and members of the public are not eligible to enter the competition.
HOW TO ENTER
The Competition is open from 00:01hrs BST (one minute past midnight) on Monday 9th October 2017 and the deadline for entries is 12:00hrs (midday) on Thursday 26th October 2017. After this date no further entries to the competition will be permitted. No responsibility can be accepted for entries not received for whatever reason.
Entries should be submitted by email in JPEG or JPG format of between 100KB and 4MB in file size. Please ensure your image is a minimum of 800 pixels on its shortest side. Send your image by email to: competitions@lincoln.ac.uk and / or upload them to Instagram using the hashtag #ULWildlifeComp17.
If sending via email please include the phrase “Wildlife Photography Competition” in the subject line. Entries should be accompanied by a short caption (up to 100 words in length) describing the image(s), including the subject, location, and date taken.
SUBMISSIONS
All entries must be original photographs taken by the named entrant. They must not have been published elsewhere or have won a prize in any other photographic competition.
It is the responsibility of entrants to ensure their submission does not infringe the copyright of any third party or any laws. Joint entries are not permitted. Reproduction or digital manipulation of any pre-existing image by another photographer is not acceptable.
Submitted photographs should be authentic representations of a natural scene featuring wildlife in the UK. Composites, double exposures and CGI imagery should not be used. Minor enhancements of raw images using photo editing software (eg. cropping, adjustment of colour levels) are permitted but please avoid heavy use of pre-programmed filters.
JUDGING
Shortlisted entrants and winners will be chosen by a panel of judges appointed by the University. The University’s decision in respect of all matters to do with the Competition will be final and no correspondence will be entered into.
Multiple entries are not permitted by the same individual but entrants may supply up to four images within a single submission. These could be a series of images from a single shoot or a small portfolio / collection.
The Prize may be withdrawn or replaced at any time. The Prize is not transferable and no financial alternative will be offered.
Shortlisted entrants will be notified by email on Monday 30th October and invited to an exhibition at the University on Tuesday 31st October, where four winners will be announced. If a winner cannot be contacted or does not claim the prize within 14 days of notification, we reserve the right to withdraw the prize from the winner and pick a replacement winner.
PERMISSIONS AND COPYRIGHT
If your photograph features any person or people, they should be aware that they are being photographed and written permission (model release) should be obtained by the photographer from all involved (or their parent’s/guardian’s permission if under 18). The University reserves the right to disqualify any entry where such permissions are unclear.
Copyright in all images submitted for this competition remains with the respective photographer. However, each photographer grants a worldwide, irrevocable, perpetual licence to the University of Lincoln to feature their submitted image in any of their publications, websites and/or in any promotional material connected to this competition, including licensing for (non-commercial) editorial use by third party media. The Promoter will always ask third party media to credit photographers where images are used but cannot be held responsible for errors or omissions.
Winners agree to the use of his/her name and image in any publicity material associated with the Competition. Any personal data relating to the winner or any other entrants will be used solely in accordance with current data protection legislation and will not be disclosed to a third party without the entrant’s prior consent.
INDEMNITY
To the maximum extent permitted by law, the University of Lincoln excludes its liability for any loss, damage, injury, cost or expense suffered by entrants, whether directly or indirectly and howsoever caused, in connection with the Competition and use of any prize. Nothing in these Terms and Conditions shall exclude the University’s liability for death or personal injury arising from its own negligence or any other liability that cannot, as a matter of law, be excluded.
By entering this competition you agree to indemnify the University of Lincoln and keep the University of Lincoln indemnified against any loss, damage, injury, cost or expense suffered by the University as a result of your entry in the Competition, including (but not limited to) any claim of infringement of intellectual property rights made by any third party.
The University of Lincoln reserves the right to cancel or amend this Competition and these terms and conditions without notice in the event of a catastrophe, war, civil or military disturbance, act of God or any actual or anticipated breach of any applicable law or regulation or any other event outside of the Promoter’s control. Any changes to the Competition will be notified to entrants as soon as possible.
ACCEPTANCE OF TERMS
The Competition and these Terms and Conditions will be governed by English law and any disputes will be subject to the exclusive jurisdiction of the courts of England. Entry into the Competition will be deemed as acceptance of these Terms and Conditions.
The What Uni Student Choice Awards survey closes tonight… have you reviewed Lincoln yet?
Voting consists of a 5-10 minute survey all about your time at University; questions such as type of accommodation you are staying in, the course you are studying, and your general thoughts on the Universities facilities, Student Union, etc.
Students who take part are in with a chance of winning a £200 food voucher, a University of Lincoln hoodie and a £10 beauty voucher.
Are you a student studying at a higher education institution in Europe? Want to show the world why you love studying here?
The Study in Europe project team of the British Council are looking for fun, fresh short films that celebrate why it is great to study abroad in Europe.
Your mission is to create a ‘short film’ (60 seconds or less) to show other students around the world what you love about studying in Europe. We want to know what inspired you to come to Europe and hear about any long-term ambitions you have achieved here or any personal challenges you have overcome while studying in Europe.
