It’s not where I work, but who I work with that matters
August 25, 2016
PhD student Emily talks about her experience of doing a placement with Arthritis Research UK. For my placement with Arthritis Research UK I was based in Sheffield for 3 months, so getting well-oriented in the new environment and role was important to me. Fortunately I was given a really good induction and had quite a …
How 1623 changed everything
August 11, 2016
This week’s blog comes from former PPN placement student Sam Metz who has gone on to a successful career in which she is now in a position to be offering placements herself. What’s the value of doing a postgraduate placement? Well it’s because of the placement I did through PPN that I have my current …
Managing Risk and Reaping the Rewards
August 3, 2016
Rob Johnson, an University of Nottingham alumni and CEO of Research Consulting Ltd, shares his employer’s eye view of working with Postgraduate Placements Nottingham. Research Consulting Ltd is an independent consultancy that serves a wide range of organisations involved in the delivery, dissemination and commercialisation of research. How did you get involved with offering placements …
My motivation and ambition was set on fire
July 21, 2016
Rebecca Gölles talks about her Postgraduate Placement with up-cycled fashion company Paguro Ltd. During the first semester of my MSc in Entrepreneurship, Innovation and Management, I heard about the opportunity of doing a Postgraduate Placement. I started regularly checking the offered placements but never felt like the right opportunity for me was listed, until one …
Postgraduate Placements (PPN) – Nottingham’s best kept secret
July 11, 2016
Paul Rice joined Postgraduate Placements Nottingham (PPN) this year as Placements Delivery Manager. Drawing on over 20 years’ experience working with businesses to tap into the talent pool in the UK’s universities, Paul talks about what makes PPN special. During my first few months at Postgraduate Placements Nottingham (PPN) I attended a Research Showcase organised …
A wealth of talented and confident individuals
June 23, 2016
University of Nottingham postgraduate student Rebecca did a placement with Paguro, a company offering a collection of contemporary up-cycled fashion and home accessories, ethically produced from recycled and re-purposed materials. We asked Yen from Paguro Ltd to give us an employer’s eye view of the placement and share some of the ways that working with a …
Over-prepare and then go with the flow!
June 16, 2016
Laura completed a placement in Public Health with Nottingham City Council and we asked her to tell us about her experiences. My placement was with the Public Health team at Nottingham City Council and one of the great things about it was that they allowed me to get involved in different things I was interested …
Exploring Citizen Science with the National Biodiversity Network (Part 3)
May 26, 2016
In the final post of a three-part series, Ben Brown describes some of the insights he gained from his placement. For my placement we negotiated a bespoke project from scratch (as the NBN do not run a formal internship programme) the scope of which proved far too ambitious for the three-month timescale. One thing I learnt from …
Exploring Citizen Science with the National Biodiversity Network (Part 2)
May 19, 2016
In the second of a three-part series, Ben Brown describes some of the insights he gained from his placement. Correspondents with the National Biodiversity Network (NBN) are often surprised to discover it’s not the monolithic body they may have imagined. While on placement I came to realise that rather than running a strict hierarchical machine, so much …
Exploring Citizen Science with the National Biodiversity Network (Part 1)
May 12, 2016
In the first of a three-part series, Ben Brown describes some of the opportunities his placement presented to him. My motives for wanting to do a placement with the National Biodiversity Network (NBN) were fairly direct; I saw a potentially untapped route to gaining more information for my own research into citizen science and publicly collected data. …
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