Placements: Postgraduate Perspectives
September 15, 2017
This week we are delighted to share a video made by one of our Postgraduate Placements Nottingham (PPN) alumni, Anna Cruse, an Art History PhD candidate. Postgraduate students have many different reasons for choosing do a placement and Anna’s video really captures some of that diversity. To find out more about Postgraduate Placements Nottingham (PPN) …
In the lab: putting a potential career to the test
September 7, 2017
This week Postgraduate Placements Nottingham catches up with Chris Till, a 3rd year PhD student on the Doctoral Training Partnership at the University of Nottingham, about his placement at Azotics Technologies Ltd.
Getting well-placed for career progression
August 24, 2017
This week we caught up with San Ha, a postgraduate placement student, and his placement host Geoff Baker of International Celebrity Networks Apps (ICN).
How to turn experience into insight
August 10, 2017
This week Debra Fearnshaw of Postgraduate Placements Nottingham (PPN) explores the value of Reflective Thinking and highlights the upcoming launch of a new Nottingham Advantage Award module. Recently I had the opportunity to do a reflective thinking exercise with a group of placement students who have been employed as Graduate Centre Coordinators for the past …
Beyond the lab: getting a holistic experience of a science business
July 26, 2017
This week Alex Fletcher shares his experience of doing a postgraduate placement with Naturally Scientific Technologies (NST Ltd) working on a project analysing production efficiencies.
Hitting the right notes
July 12, 2017
This week Postgraduate Placements Nottingham (PPN) chats with Liz Jones from MHA about how a placement student helped the charity streamline its music therapy provision. Could you tell us a little about the mission of MHA? MHA was founded by members of the Methodist Church back in 1943, and today we support over 17,000 older people – around …
Change
April 26, 2017
Lia de Simon tells us how a placement experience helped her to take control during a difficult stage in her postgraduate journey. Lia did her placement with Success for All a not-for-profit charitable foundation which works with over 130 schools right across the UK and draws upon research first started in the 1970s by psychologists Robert Slavin …
What next?
April 13, 2017
This week Rebecca Choi talks about her placement at a starter company. Rebecca did a placement in the field of biophotonics, image processing, and minimally invasive surgery (MIS); assisting a start-up company in refining a prototype system to improve a surgeons’ understanding of instrument-tissue interaction. The project established the basis for a longer term R&D programme, …
From Museums to Theme Parks – Architecture in practice
March 30, 2017
Licheng Zhang, a doctor of Architecture at the University of Nottingham, was successful in securing a PPN Postgraduate Placement with 1 World Educational Theme Parks Limited to produce a series of Concept drawings and a CGI walk-through for their educational theme park concept. We asked what drew him to the Postgraduate Placements Nottingham Programme and …
Shifting Perspectives
March 1, 2017
This week MPH in International Health student Nilushka Perera talks about how her PPN postgraduate placement secured her a full-time job in the charity sector. I always had an interest in parenting and child health, although my overall interest gravitated towards life-style based non-communicable diseases. During my internship, I began to draw parallels to the public health impact …
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