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. …
Placement student helps craft brewery to launch new pub
July 31, 2014
“As soon as I saw the project title, Marketing Officer for a craft brewery, I knew it was the ideal role for me. Not only was the placement in an industry which I’m interested in (it goes beyond the consumption of the product), the placement gave me a chance to wear a lot of different …
Postgraduate Placements and SMEs
June 18, 2014
I started working with Postgraduate Placements at the University of Nottingham at the beginning of May. The main aim of the project is to place Postgraduate Students in small or medium sized enterprises (SMEs) in the East Midlands. Therefore a large part of my role is to find SMEs who have a project that a …
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