Edge Award
Get recognition for your passions and hobbies. Get the edge when it comes to employability.
Get recognition for your passions and hobbies. Get the edge when it comes to employability.
The EDGE (Engagement, Development, Graduate Employability) Award gives you formal recognition for a wide range of activities you take part in outside of your studies.
Do you volunteer with societies or charities? Are you on the committee of your sports club or completing a placement abroad? Do you dabble in entrepreneurship or have plans to be a course rep? All these activities can count towards the EDGE Award.
Develop your skills and build your confidence to become more competitive in applying for work experience and graduate opportunities.
Register online for your EDGE Award account.
Once you register online we will contact you to offer advice on the most suitable activities for your subject area and personal career goals. You can also call into the Employability & Careers Hub for more info.
We recommend you get started on your first activity in first year so you have enough time to complete the award throughout the duration of your degree. This includes year long placement, volunteering and other extracurricular activities you might get involved in every year.
Getting activities accredited retrospectively is not permitted, any activity must be finished and signed off by the activity coordinator (listed on the individual activity pages) within the academic year you started it.
Once you have completed an activity check that it has been recorded. Successful activities will appear on your EDGE online record shortly after completion.
If you have a query then please get in touch with the co-ordinator for your activity or Employability & Careers.
Before graduation you will complete a short reflection and application in your final Semester.
This will be available in Blackboard Learn in the early part of Semester 2.
Depending on whether you are completing the Ulster EDGE Award or the Ulster EDGE Excel Award you will need to complete 4 or 6 activities from the categories listed below. You can choose whichever activities you want, they don’t have to be from different categories.
You don't need to decide all of the activities you are going to do when you register, simply focus on the first or next one. Employability & Careers can help you with a plan - pay a visit or use the online chat to ask any questions you might have.
HEAR is the official Ulster University document which provides a record of achievements, both academic and non-academic, gained while studying at Ulster. It is an electronic document available to students on full-time undergraduate degree courses, or integrated Master’s degrees, on the Belfast, Coleraine, Jordanstown or Magee campuses. Find out more and access your HEAR via this link.
