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Exploring Citizen Science with the National Biodiversity Network (Part 1)

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

“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

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 …