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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