Faculty of Humanities

Placement Provider: Reclaim Project Placement Contact: Carole Arrowsmith Carole.Arrowsmith@.ac.uk Location(s) of placement: Manchester Start Date: As soon as possible Duration: TBC Work hours each week: TBC Deadline for Applications: 9th April 2019 Resources available eg All necessary resources will be provided library data, computer, desk etc Equality and diversity policy Yes is in place and monitored Security clearance required No Disclosure Barring Service Yes check required Description of Placement: RECLAIM is a youth leadership and social change organisation. It is a small charity which uses its experience and platform to support and amplify the voices of working class young people. It was established in Moss Side in 2007, to identify and support young leaders from an intensely pressurised community. Its work allows young people to develop their skills and potential.

The organisation runs intensive, high impact leadership programmes for 12-15 year olds from working class communities and supports them through an Alumni Network until they are 22. It also develops and delivers a range of pilot projects and campaigns on issues that affect working class communities.

There are two projects that RECLAIM would like to offer as placements :

1. The first is how the charity measures it's impact on a range of stakeholders involved in its projects and campaigns, assessing the suitability and rigour of its current approaches, testing new methodologies and tools, and making recommendations for how it can improve its practices in the future.

2. Many of its funders, particularly those in the public sector and local authorities, are now asking if they can measure the cost benefit/SROI/value-added of our projects in their communities, based on the parameters/measures that some councils now have in place. RECLAIM has very little experience in implementing economic impact models such as this and would therefore benefit from some support to help analyse and test some solutions.

Requirements: Specific Skills/Experience/Training Required for the Placement:  Ability to research independently and to critique methodological practice.

Training and experience expected to be gained through the placement:  To engage in knowledge exchange with an organisation that makes a significant social impact through its work.  To develop contacts within the third sector and to have the opportunity to apply your research skills to a current research project Financial assistance: A Faculty stipend is payable for this placement.

Placement Provider: Manchester Transport Museum Society Ltd Placement Contact: Carole Arrowsmith [email protected] Location(s) of placement: Tramway Start Date: May 2019 or to be discussed with successful applicant Duration: Three months Work hours each week: Full-time or part-time Deadline for Applications: As soon as possible Resources available eg Resources will be provided, but some work may be carried out on campus library data, computer, desk etc Equality and diversity policy Yes is in place and monitored Security clearance required No Disclosure Barring Service No check required Description of Placement:

Heaton Park and Manchester Transport Museum Society Ltd

Heaton Park is listed at Grade 2 with the Hall at Grade 1.The Park has a long and interesting history. It was owned by the Earls of Wilton and then purchased by Manchester City Council in 1902. During the First World War, the Park was used initially to train the Manchester “Pals” battalions and then as a hospital. In the Second World War it was an initial training camp for the RAF and is now a very popular park. The initial Tramway was built in 1905 to bring the workers into the cleaner air of the Park from the unhealthy and arduous conditions of the local cotton factories. The Tramway closed in the 1930s and the track was covered in tarmac. The track was uncovered in the 1970s, the overhead electrical system re- instated and the Tramway returned to use. The Tramway has since been extended by the Society’s volunteers and is now about one kilometre in length. The trams themselves are extremely varied and date from 1880 to 1991. The Tramway has a largely forgotten history from its construction date to its’ closure in the 1930s. This is an interesting era including the end of the Victorian age, the First World War and the campaign for Women’s Suffrage. The Tramway played a part in them all, indeed Emmeline Pankhurst was arrested in the Park for stopping the movement of trams.

However, the Tramway cannot live in the past, history is still being made. The Society has been given a tram built in 1991 for preservation as the UK’s first “second generation” tram.

The placement involves researching into the forgotten history of the Tramway. Looking initially at why the Tramway was built and its use between 1902 until its final closure in the 1930s. The Tramway Society has a particular interest in looking at the people who built, maintained, operated and used the Tramway within the broader context of social history at that time and also to investigate the parallels in these events and the re-birth of the Tramways in the 1990s.

Specific Skills/Experience/Training Required for the Placement:

Experience in Archive Research Interest in transport and its’ relationship to social change Interest in developing an exhibition. Researching and demonstrating historic artefacts

Training and experience expected to be gained through the placement:

To gain experience in an historical development project that will have an impact on the local community An opportunity to work on a project that will involve public engagement opportunities.

Internship with the Welsh Affairs Committee at the House of Commons

Anna Sanders [email protected] About the Welsh Affairs Committee

• 11 cross-party members of the House of Commons

Role: • Scrutinise the UK Government on issues which have an impact in Wales (e.g. transport, welfare, and criminal justice) • Conduct inquiries into issues The process of a select committee inquiry

Committee visits

Publish Government Choose Call for report response topic evidence Oral evidence sessions Oral evidence

• Taken through ‘hearings’ • Preparation: – Identify and brief witnesses – Write briefs for the Members, with suggested lines of questioning

Committee visits

• Organised visits to HMP Berwyn and HMP Parc to examine conditions – Meeting with prison governor – Focus group with prisoners and prison staff

• Drafted press releases Report consideration stage

• Contributed to other reports, including the ‘Cancellation of Rail Electrification in South Wales’ and ‘Brexit: Priorities for Welsh Agriculture’

• Committee members must unanimously agree on the report

• Must be neutral and evidence- based Benefits of the internship

• Strengthened my research and policy analysis skills

• Learnt how to engage with Select Committees and policy experts

• Broadened my ideas regarding my future career