The Southall Trust is working in partnership with Bath Spa University to award grants to students who have demonstrated exceptional work in one or more of the following three categories:
Sustainable Communication: A project or process that re-presents a contemporary issue or re-considers engagement with a contentious issue in a national or international context.
Sustainable Fabrication: A project or process that makes innovative or ingenious use of materials, promoting material circulation/the circular economy, or energy conscious solutions (including online) in design, sculptural, or material intervention.
Sustainable Community Engagement: A project or process that uses diverse or unexpected collaboration to promote social cohesion/inclusion or reconciliation.
The Award is open to taught postgraduate students in Bath School of Art, Film and Media and Bath School of Design. There is no application process – current students will be nominated by lecturers from the schools and selected by an external panel. Students selected for the award will deliver a presentation to peers and staff in the year following their MA qualification.
Awards of £1,000 per category will be given in two instalments: £800 will be paid to the student following an award ceremony at the MA Degree show in September and the balance of £200, when the student has made a presentation on the development of their project to the School of Art, Film and Media and Bath School of Design.