How PPN helped grow my eCommerce consultancy
October 13, 2016
This week Chris Jones of RedSock.biz shares why he chose to offer placement opportunities with his company. Many of the other employers featured in this blog could reasonably be described as “hyper-modern”: often they seem to be high-tech or new-industry companies. I suppose I might be described as “post-modern”: I’m a freelance management consultant, with no staff and …
Placement students enhance confidence & collegiality among peers
September 29, 2016
Reports on placement outcomes tend to focus on what one side of the arrangement – the student or the placement host – get out of the process, but in reality the benefits are highly reciprocal. This is nicely illustrated by a recent Postgraduate Placements Nottingham scheme in which Postgraduate Research Students (PGRs) worked with Elizabeth …
A Thousand Year Old Market Goes Online
September 22, 2016
This week we interview Jimiama, a postgraduate student, and Hugh Brown, CEO of the historical Melton Mowbray Market, about their experiences of working together through the University of Nottingham’s Postgraduate Placements scheme. Melton Mowbray Market is the largest town centre livestock market in the country and its existence predates the Domesday Book. The main market …
Delivering a fresh, unbiased business project review
September 8, 2016
Dr Mark Tock, MBA, Operations Director at UNIP (University of Nottingham Innovation Park) talks about his experience of offering a placement through PPN. What has having postgraduate placement students uniquely offered your organisation? Bringing a postgraduate into UNIP Management Ltd, albeit for a short period, afforded our business a fresh and unbiased review of a …
Communicating the power of makeup
September 6, 2016
Trishna Daswaney, Director of Kohl Kreatives, talks about her experience of hosting Diana, a postgraduate placement student. Kohl Kreatives is a new enterprise, endorsed by the University of Nottingham, which is unique in producing a fabulous range of makeup brushes and matte liquid lipsticks as a charitable free service that benefits the transgender and cancer communities. As …
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 …
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