Example Projects
To give you a taste of what Nuffield Foundation Bursary placements are like, here are some examples. Follow the links below to read more about Nuffield Student's projects and take a look at some of their posters and other work.
Past Nuffield Placements - Summer 2011
Here you can view some of 2011's Nuffield Foundation Bursary placements These placements took place over the summer in 2011 (July 2011 - September 2011).
- Placement 1 - Polymer Chemistry Outreach Activities
- Placement 2 - Communicating Science: Gears and Motion
- Placement 3 - Communicating Science: Steam Powered Locomotives and Shunting
- Placement 4 - Design and produce a STEM activity session for KS1/2 children
- Placement 6 - Laboratory based - physical sciences
- Placement 7 - Laboratory based - biosciences
- Placement 8 - Biodiversity conservation / botanical science
- Placement 9 - Rural economics / green tourism / wildlife conservation
- Placement 10 - Atomic Physics
- Placement 11 - Analytical / forensic chemistry
- Placement 12 - Crime Scene Investigation
- Placement 13 - Microchemistry - developing a range of outreach practical sessions using microscopy
- Placement 14 - Development of a range of computational chemistry outreach activities
- Placement 15 - Determination of the concentrations and analysis of the spatial distribution patterns of a range of cations and anions along the course of a river
- Placement 16 - Luminance perception in amateur astronomers
- Placement 17 - Development of spatial sensitivity
- Placement 18 - Scintillating grid illusion
- Placement 19 - Medicinal Chemistry - Malaria P1
- Placement 20 - Medicinal Chemistry - Malaria P2
- Placement 21 - Medicinal Chemistry - Antimicrobials P1
- Placement 22 - Medicinal Chemistry - Antimicrobials P2
- Placement 24 - Researching community engagement and school work development around "Green Museums" in the North East
- Placement 25 - Synthetic Organic Chemistry
- Placement 26 - Polycarbocyclic "cage" structures
- Placement 27 - Science Education