Tag Archives: Research

Placements: Partnership with industry

Posted on December 5, 2012 by Rachel Glover

Recently the School of Construction Management and Engineering (SCME) held a half-day workshop on ‘Industrial Partnership Companies and SCME’ to showcase their placement students. The workshop included presentations from four Part 3 students that had been on placement over the … Continue reading →

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Research update #2: Common themes

Posted on August 23, 2012 by Rachel Glover

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

Posted on July 30, 2012 by Nadja Guggi

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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Social Media: A guide for researchers

Posted on December 14, 2011 by Shirley Williams

A good guide for researchers looking to get into Social Media: Cann, A., K. Dimitriou, and T. Hooley, Social Media: A guide for researchers, 2011, Research Information Network, UK. Available for free download at: http://www.rin.ac.uk/our-work/communicating-and-disseminating-research/social-media-guide-researchers Along with lots of links … Continue reading →

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Digital Researcher – Go Digital 2012!

Posted on December 13, 2011 by Shirley Williams

Vitae in partnership with The British Library are running Digital Researcher 2012: an innovative, thought-provoking one day event to help researchers make the most of new technologies and social media tools in their research. You can listen to what happened … Continue reading →

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