UROP: Undergraduate Research Opportunities Programme

Faculty Listing of UROP Opportunities: www.imperial.ac.uk/urop (new website from October 2015)

Form for academic staff at Imperial College London to indicate that they are either:

· happy to receive emails from students interested in pursuing a UROP in their research area

· or they are in a position to advertise a specific UROP research experience

By completing this form, an academic member of staff is presumed to have either the authority to or the provisional approval of their “department” to host a UROP participant.

Your Title/Name

(title, full first name and surname)

Department

Tick one of the following boxes

· I wish to submit a new entry (please complete the whole form)

· I wish to amend my entry (now please complete the sections below as appropriate)

· I wish my entry to be removed, although I remain available for students to contact.

· I am unable to participate in UROP so please list me as non-contactable and remove any entry I might have You will remain on this list for the duration unless we are informed otherwise or we have reason to remove your name.

Title for any Research Experience

Description of the activities/project on which a UROP participant would be engaged

Skills and experience required by the ideal participant, if any?

Preferred Dates of Placement (e.g. summer vacation only; term-time only or leave blank if no preference):

Your contact details (including campus, building room number, email and phone number)

Where will a NEW entry be placed on the NEW UROP website?

New entries will be added to the:

· New Opportunities Page (for about one month)

· Faculty UROP Page: based on the supervisor’s department. If you wish your entry to be added elsewhere please indicate here:

All academic staff are at liberty to have their entry removed at any stage (every effort will be made to remove them at the earliest possible opportunity).

Reports: Student participants are often asked to submit a student perspective about their experiences. Perspectives normally only make brief mention of the actual project content. Would you have any objections to such perspectives being placed on the UROP website for publicity purposes?

YES NO

Comments:

Funding to assist with participant’s living costs

While applications for College or external “bursaries” are a route most staff wish to explore to off-set the living costs of the participant, UROP requests here whether the general intention would be, should all other options fail, for you to provide a “bursary” (from a general departmental / research or sponsorship account). Information on other bursaries available can be found on the web-site. Please Note: This information is not included in the Departmental UROP Listing unless you stipulate by ticking this box

YES NO Unsure

Please take note that the aim of UROP is to provide meaningful exposure to and experience of the research environment and this should be achieved through a structured and supervised research experience. It is on this basis that HMRC designate any payments made to UROP students as being bursaries (i.e. no income tax or National insurance contributions are deducted at source). Participating members of staff are kindly requested to observe this principle when submitting this form. Thank you for your co-operation.

Funding to cover consumables/project costs

Most bursary competitions do not provide assistance towards the costs of projects. Therefore, it is normally falls on the host supervisor to cover these costs.

Please note:

· Prior to a UROP commencing the host department should ensure they have submitted the UROP Placement Registration Form (available from the UROP website) to Registry Records: http://www3.imperial.ac.uk/urop/howtogetinvolved/successfulapplicationwhatnext

· Advice on how to host a UROP participant can be found on the UROP website.

· Queries regarding UROP can be addressed to

· Therefore, by default all members of academic staff who do not submit a form will be presumed to be contactable by students and as such UROP will encourage students to this end.

UROP: Undergraduate Research Opportunities Programme