Our students are achievers! Throughout their time with us our students and researchers take part in a number of practical and research assignments and projects. Their achievements may include an end-of-year assessment, a creative project, a performance, a work placement, voluntary work, an external competition or professional collaboration.
Listed below are just some of the student projects that you'll find in our faculty websites.
Enterprise Associate Scheme
After receiving a First Class degree from LSBU in BSc Engineering Product Design, Matthieu Philippault joined our Enterprise Associate Scheme to develop his innovative folding trailer into a market-ready product. Tyligo is named after the Greek for 'to fold' and offers a compact and lightweight solution to a classic travel solution. His creation recently won him a SHELL LiveWire Grand Ideas Award.
BA (Hons) Arts Management
Alice Moore moved into Southwark to study at LSBU and while here founded the Real Drama community theatre company with the support of local young people from the Aylesbury Estate where she lived and surrounding areas. Since Real Drama opened in 2008 the project has evolved from a network of young people sharing ideas and contacts into a fully fledged youth-led theatre company, which has put on its own productions in venues such as the Unicorn Theatre, London Bridge. The group has 40 members aged 16-26 years and 150+ alumni.
Gym Instructor Level 2
An LSBU student has become the country's first blind person to achieve a Level 2 Fitness Award. James O'Driscoll, a Coach-ability trainee with London Sports Forum for Disabled People is now set to pass on his skills to encourage others to get fit now that he's qualified.
BSc Industrial Design
Although the entrepreneurs loved his innovative idea, LSBU Industrial Design graduate James Barnham turned them down as he felt they wanted too much equity in his business. But it hasn't held him back. He's gone from strength-to-strength with 'Nova-Flo', a magnetic device which stops baths from overflowing with the help of a sensor. With international clients building up, his latest sales are to Las Vegas hotels.
Find out more about Nova-flo
Investigative Forensic Psychology group
LSBU's Investigative Forensic Psychology group is looking at the quality of eyewitness accounts. Focusing on vulnerable groups such as older people and children with intellectual disabilities, it's intended their research will go on to adapt police line-up procedures to improve witness reliability. The group's findings are being shared widely amongst practitioners, such as lawyers, barristers, disability specialists and police services.
Find out more about the Investigative Forensic Psychology group's work
Students on engineering and design courses
LSBU stole the show at the 350th Royal Society's annual Summer Science Exhibition with their sleuthing wall-walking robot. A team of our Engineering and Design students won the Industrial Robot Innovative Climbing Award and a BAE systems second prize. Visitors were impressed to see the robot find a hidden defect in a steel wall revealing how machines have the potential to remove human risk in unsafe situations.
BA (Hons) Games Culture
To create his innovative game, Starlings, for his final year project, LSBU student Russ Morris collaborated with professional industry musician Christopher Chong on the game's musical score. Against a rolling landscape, the images of the birds' aerobatic display and the pace of the accompanying music build to a spellbinding climax. Our Game Cultures course equips graduates with a diverse skill set, preparing them for a wide variety of industry roles.
PgDip Architecture
After graduating, Angel Tan, thought she could bring much of what she'd learnt about spatial awareness in architecture to fashion design. So in February 2008 she became co-founder of Trousers London, a London-based premium men's jeanswear label. With strong foundations in sustainability, Trousers London creates an exclusive series of designs in organic denim, moving away from disposable clothing trends towards a new tradition of collectibles. To build on this, each pair has its own unique ID number and markets are opening up for them across the world.
Find out more at www.trouserslondon.co.uk
PgDip Architecture
The RIBA President's Medals competition is the world's most prestigious competition for architecture students. Selvei's winning proposal, Media City: Vertical Discovery, is, in her own words "less a new type of building than a form of architectural fungus spreading across the walls and roofs of the city."
LSBU played a key role in creating this wonder flipflop that makes exercising more effective. On its release it made a huge impact on the body conscious public, with highlights including being a sell-out at Selfridges and featuring on the Oprah Winfrey show in America.
Visit our Faculty websites to discover more student success stories.
