EDGE activities

Increase self confidence and widen your social network across disciplines while helping to produce an engaging, heart racing Halloween experience for the public.

Support new and existing students by helping them navigate campus confidently and answer a range of queries from students as they become familiar with their campus experience.

This activity encourages you to identify and reflect the significant contribution to your university education that caring and managing within a home-based work experience provides.

Open to Law and Social Work students this training will help students to develop essential client care skills from the initial interview stage, to discussing a client's legal requirements.

Get EDGE accreditation for completing Employer Insight Programmes and Ambassadorial roles.

Special Olympics Ulster is an organisation which provides a sports training and competition programme for children and adults with an intellectual disability.

Through our Global Engagement Programmes, students will develop the independence, autonomy and professional skills to succeed in the global workplace.

This activity ss for Year 3 BSc Hons Physiotherapy students delivering ergonomics fundamentals training to UU medical students

ISCG membership provides students with a choice of projects to apply to, a wide network of similarly engaged and driven students, events, interviews, and recruitment opportunities.

Students are provided with a brief memorandum on a legal matter which they must research. They must also engage with client care directions provided by the Law Society of NI.

A student will be tasked with providing research, advice, drafting and representation for a range of law firms, voluntary and statutory organisations, to assist them in their future development and progress.

A student will be tasked with providing desk research, essentially a literature review of relevant, pertinent, academic peer-reviewed material for Family Mediation NI, to assist them in their future development and progress.

LAICIM is a collaborative project that aims to provide an opportunity for young people who are refugees and immigrants in Northern Ireland (children in movement), to experience a rich English language learning environment through targeted language assessment and intervention.

This is a unique opportunity for full-time students to gain work experience through work-based learning.

Enhance your employability through project based digital marketing learning opportunities for with local employers and stakeholders.

The final of three Media Production EDGE Award activities, this level supports students to build on Entry and Intermediate level activities by developing advanced level production skills through the completion of a range of projects.

The first of 3 levels of Media Production EDGE Award activities, developed to help you enhance your technical production knowledge through involvement in a range of extra curricular projects.

The second of three levels of Media Production EDGE activities, the Intermediate level supports students to build higher level production skills that are progressing from those developed at entry level.

Screen Production students engage with various aspects of multi camera projects

Secure EDGE Award recognition by working in paid or voluntary roles at the Open Championship 2025 taking place in Royal Portrush.

Connecting final year students who have completed placement with placement seeking Year 2 students.

This activity is open to sports and psychology students. This activity will enable up to four 2nd year students accrue a minimum of 20 hours’ work experience in a physical activity/exercise research laboratory.

Hone your craft as an Actor by participating in our in-house production company 'Playmakers.

Develop your skills as a Director working with peers, to produce dynamic and engaging works of original theatrical performance.

Develop real-world skills in the role of Stage Manager in one of our fully equipped performance venues, managing people, space and resources.

Develop technique and confidence in your capacity to produce opportunities for original dramatic works through your creative writing.

This is an enrichment activity taken by Year 2 HTM students at Belfast and Coleraine campuses. It aims to: enhance students’ knowledge and understanding of the work environment and provide them with the opportunity to develop employability skills.

Riverside Youth Theatre Assistants are responsible for supporting a positive, safe and encouraging environment for children and young people to develop and flourish creatively.

Through our Global work-based learning opportunities, students will develop the independence, autonomy and professional skills to succeed in the global workplace.

Ulster students undertake work placements in a variety of sectors during their time at University. For the experience to be EDGE eligible, the work experience must be in addition to the students degree programme.

Student Success Ambassadors will secure EDGE Award accreditation by logging and documenting specific activities and by participating in induction and skills development support.

Get EDGE Award accreditation for your Part time job by learning about the skills you are developing and the evidence you are creating that will support your future job applications and interviews.

If you are completing a Year long placement it automatically counts as an Ulster EDGE Award activity. If you are in final year it will show on your EDGE record in Nov/Dec of your final year.