- The Stellify Award / Stellify Award for Masters Students
The Stellify Award for Masters students is a unique University of Manchester award supporting your personal development and graduate outcomes alongside your studies.
The Stellify Award for Masters students gives you the chance to make a difference in a way that feels authentic to you, your passions and interests. Through volunteering, leadership roles, ethical grand challenges and a final reflection piece, you’ll not only take action to help causes you truly care about, but will also be prepared for life after university and will enter the world of work feeling confident in your abilities.
How to complete your reflection
At the end of your Stellify journey YOU MUST undertake a reflection in order to achieve the Award. Once you have completed the three activity sections below please fill in this form to tell us what you have done and we will then send you details of how to complete the reflection (which is done via a video). You have until 30th September in your graduating year to undertake your reflection.
You will need to complete this reflection piece in order to achieve Stellify.
Stellify Drop In
Come and Meet the Stellify Team to ask any queries!
Friday 28th February
School of Natural Sciences
Location to be Confirmed
2:30pm - 4:00pm
Wednesday 12th March
School of Health Sciences Hub
Ground Floor - Jean McFarlane Building
12:30pm - 2:00pm
Wednesday 26th March
School of Biological Sciences
Ground Floor - Stopford Building
2:30pm - 4:00pm
Wednesday 7th May
The Atrium - University Place
11:30am - 1:00pm
How it works
From becoming a Student Representative or Sustainability Champion, through to involvement with societies, sports teams, volunteering and more, there are lots of activities to choose from that will help you progress towards earning the award - all designed to fit around your postgraduate studies and personal interests. The Award also requires you to submit a final reflection piece at the end of your Stellify journey in order to consider the activities you have completed, helping you to think about the skills you have gained and your perception of your place in the world.
The Stellify Award is open to both new postgraduate taught students and those continuing after their undergraduate studies here. Upon completion of the award, you'll receive a certificate at your graduation ceremony.
Take a look at what's involved and a full list of activities below:
Complete at least two Ethical Grand Challenge activities:
Sustainability Challenge
Social Justice Challenge
Workplace Ethics Challenge
If you have completed this section as an undergraduate you should complete the challenge that you did not complete at that time, plus two extra modules from within the Social Justice Challenge. (six modules available – 2 required for completion). If you completed all three EGCs as an undergraduate please get in touch with stellify@manchester.ac.uk.
This equates to around 4 hours of activity across the two EGCs.
Complete 10 hours of volunteering which benefits the wider community:
Find a volunteering opportunity on Volunteer Hub or find your own.
You must record all your own volunteering activity on Volunteer Hub to count towards the award.
The volunteering should be completed within your Masters year.
Complete one Champions role:
This section is designed to provide you with the opportunity to influence change for the student population, such as leadership roles, Student Partner Intern roles, SU research roles, student staff and ambassadors. Click to find the full list of what activities will count.
Reflecting on your experience
When you've completed all the required components above, you'll need to email stellify@manchester.ac.uk and then we'll send you a link to complete a short reflection piece - the final step to achieving the award.
You'll be sent a link and asked to submit your reflection pieces via video on Shortlist.me. You'll be asked three questions to reflect on, and prior to recording your answers you'll have a few minutes to consider what you plan to say. These questions are designed to noly only help you reflect on the skills you've built, but also how to articulate your Stellify Award experience when you come to speak to employers. Once you have recorded your responses, you will be able to replay the video to review it before submitting.
Get in touch
Please email the relevant team with your enquiry or to check your progress:
Stellify Award: Stellify@manchester.ac.uk
Ethical Grand Challenges: egc@manchester.ac.uk
Volunteering: volunteers@manchester.ac.uk
Sports volunteering: sportsvolunteer@manchester.ac.uk
Champions for Change roles: see contacts in individual activities
Careers: careers@manchester.ac.uk
Frequently asked questions
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