Getting a solid start to my career
June 23, 2022
This week we hear from Manikanta Ravi about his Researcher Academy postgraduate placement as a Design Engineering Intern at Micro-Mesh Engineering Ltd. I am an MSc Mechanical Engineering Student. Since I studied during the COVID period and have no prior work experience, I was searching for an internship/placement opportunity inside the university. So, I consulted the …
Improving my employability with a postgraduate placement
June 1, 2022
Cephas on his experience of doing a Researcher Academy postgraduate placement. After spending my formative years in a developing economy, studying in the UK allowed me to interact with students from all over the world, and the majority of them believed that completing a post-graduate placement would improve your employability. I am an international student …
“It was like it was meant to be” – My marketing placement
April 14, 2022
Khyati Jain on her Inclusive Marketing placement. Being a self-funded research student, I was looking for a placement opportunity to help cover inflated housing and child-care costs that I hadn’t accounted for. Returning to academia after 14 years in the industry, I also missed the rush I felt working in the marketing sector. The inclusive …
My research visit to Sweden exceeded all my expectations
March 31, 2022
One of our ESRC researchers, Sara Palacios Arapiles, talks about her overseas institutional visit at University of Lund in Sweden. The past term, I did a 3-month research visit to the Faculty of Law of Lund University (Sweden). I chose Lund because my doctoral research focuses on the asylum system of various European countries, including …
My postgraduate placement: an international student’s perspective
March 14, 2022
Nivashnee shares her experience of doing a Researcher Academy placement. When most people apply for a post-graduate placement, it’s to gain work experience that can help them land their first job or internship. However, my story is a little different. I was an international student from South Africa who decided to further my education in …
The Three Minute Gamble
March 3, 2022
Zaid Janjua, alumni and former Vitae 3MT® Competition winner, talks about his experiences with the Researcher Academy and how he has been able to give back to the postgraduate researcher community at UON. When I received the offer letter for my current role, the recruiter mentioned something interesting to me. Prior to our first call, …
Bucket list item – check!
February 17, 2022
Tomas, an astronomy PhD candidate, talks about his experience of attending a conference with help from the Researcher Academy’s ‘Conference, travel and training fund’. Becoming a scientist has been on my bucket list for many years. Since I started working on my Ph.D. projects, I have come closer and closer by the day to achieving …
Hosting a postgraduate placement added creative value to our team
January 27, 2022
Great British Sports Cars (GBS), a leading name in the British and worldwide sports cars industry, share their experience of hosting a University of Nottingham postgraduate on placement in their digital and marketing team. We recently had a student from the University of Nottingham join us for a few months as an intern on our …
My postgraduate placement experience
January 12, 2022
Dua Munawar shares her experience of doing a Researcher Academy postgraduate placement. Researcher Academy postgraduate placements are designed to help you recognise the breadth of your potential and highlight future opportunities. Each placement involves a discrete project at an external organisation for which the postgraduate researcher acts as a specialist consultant. The placements are delivered …
My Packaging Placement Unwrapped
January 5, 2022
Isabella Hargreaves reflects on her Researcher Academy placement. When I set out on my MSc Marketing course, I wanted to get some real-world marketing experience under my belt. I applied for a postgraduate placement that was vague in description as the product was still unreleased, so I was relatively unsure about what the project would …
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