Small grants

The proceedings for the 2026 UCFL Summer Plenary are now available to watch below and on the ILCS website. Please do not hesitate to watch and share these presentations widely. The running order is as such: Home, Heritage and Community...

Christiane Günther and Ariane Laumonier  Swansea University  Overview  Building on the success of Languages Day in 2025, supported by UCFL, the event aimed to highlight the power of languages and their role in connecting people. As well as being in line with Curriculum for Wales and the new GCSE...

Aberlangs in a Box Initiative Overview In collaboration with Research Assistant Andrada Lilburn, the project team has developed a suite of educational materials tailored for students at the end of primary education. These resources are directly linked to the Aberlangs:...

Shaping the Future of Language Education in Scotland The Symposium brought together representatives from education, higher education, industry, and policy to examine the future of language learning in Scotland. The event provided a forum to assess current challenges, explore innovative...

As part of  the University of Bristol’s Widening Participation programme, the School of Modern Languages (SML) organised a one-day Language Festival for Year 8 pupils in June 2025. The festival built on the success of the event the previous year and...

The HIV epidemic that swept the world in the 1980s left suffering and death in its wake, while also sparking a new moral panic around homosexuality. Yet the shared suffering also helped unite the HIV+ community, particularly – not though...

The School of Modern Languages at Cardiff University undertook a 2-year project to better understand student transition to Higher Education in order to identify ways to better support all learners inclusively throughout their university experience. UCFL funding was sought to...

In 2025 the School of Modern Languages and Cultures at the University of Warwick marked the 80th anniversary of the end of WWII with a year-long project in collaboration with Coventry Cathedral to bring people together to see the world differently....

Ariane Laumonier and Christiane Günther, Swansea University Outline The project was initially developed to deliver French and German language workshops to secondary schools across Wales, with a particular focus on Key Stage 4 pupils. Its objective was to promote multilingualism...

‘Memories of the BUMIDOM’ Project Report Thanks to the generous funding from the UCFL Small Grants Scheme, I was able to collaborate on a project with Guadeloupean students and creative practitioners to place value on histories and memories of the...