Tag Archives: Rachel Glover

Placement showcase: Chelsea Zahra

Over the summer, we have been in the fortunate position to be able to employ a number of students on Undergraduate Research Opportunities Programme placements.  You may have seen a number of posts from Rachel Glover, who has been working … Continue reading

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ALT-Conference: The Digital Literacies perspective

Last week was very hectic as I travelled up and down the country to attend two conferences. The first was the Association for Learning Technology Conference (ALT-C) in Manchester. The conference’s objective was to understand how technology can best be … Continue reading

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Placement Showcase: Harriet Taylor

I have been asking some of my fellow placement students to share their experiences and talk about what impact their work has had on the projects they’ve been working on. Harriet Taylor, a third-year History student, has spent 10 weeks … Continue reading

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Placement showcase: Hannah Little

In my previous blog post I spoke about the common themes that have occurred in my research. One of these predominant themes was that students really value a palpable output for their placement work. By that I mean that they … Continue reading

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Spreading the word and learning some new ones

My colleague Erika Delbecque and I spent a useful day yesterday in Bath at the University Library promoting the good work being done here in Reading on the Digitally Ready project and learning about what is happening there – especially from the perspective of … Continue reading

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Research update #2: Common themes

Over the past few weeks I have been speaking to academic members of staff, local employers and University of Reading students about their experiences during placements. I have focussed on the Undergraduate Research Opportunities Programme (UROP) and Summer Employment Experience … Continue reading

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Research update: Digital literacies for student employability

This summer, the Digitally Ready project team are carrying out a research study to find out how effective our work placements are at helping students become digitally ready for the future. Our fabulous work placement student Rachel Glover has been … Continue reading

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Undergraduate student Rachel joins the Digitally Ready team

Hello everyone! My name is Rachel Glover. I am happy to have now started my long-awaited placement working in the Centre for the Development of Teaching and Learning on the project, Digitally Ready. I will be looking into how work placements … Continue reading

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