Postgraduate Placements Nottingham
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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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