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Author Archives: Rachel Glover
Placements: Partnership with industry
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
Placement options at Reading: Silchester and Real Jobs
The second part of my research into digital literacies for student employability has focussed on in-curricular placements here at Reading. Every undergraduate programme now has an embedded placement option. The ‘Skirts’ model includes maxi, mini and micro placements. A maxi … Continue reading
Posted in Digital Heroes, Employability, Research, Technology in fieldwork, Work/Academic placements
Tagged Amanda Clarke, Berkshire Primary Care Trust, Department of Archaeology, Department of Typography & Graphic Communication, Kindle, Michelle Brooks, Paragon Community Housing, Rachel Glover, Real Jobs scheme, Richard Johnson, Sam Winslet, Silchester
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SEED placements: showcasing success
Last week SEED students were invited to present about their experiences at the SEED Showcase event. The evening was an opportunity for placement supervisors, employers, parents and fellow students to see the kind of things a SEED placement entails. There were … Continue reading
Posted in Employability, Meetings & Events, Placement student showcase, Research, Work/Academic placements
Tagged Emily Shaw, George Brewster, Harriet Taylor, James Buller, Kara Swift, Knowledge Transfer Centre (KTC), Opsview, Peter Finnan, Rachel Glover, Seb Lear, Shay Mullineaux, Summer Employment Experience and Discovery (SEED)
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Placement showcase: Carrie Philp
Continuing my placement showcase series, I interviewed Carrie Philp about her experiences during her UROP placement and how she used social media to recruit students for her project. A third year Psychology student, Carrie, who only heard about the opportunity … Continue reading
Posted in Dissemination, Employability, Placement student showcase, Research, Work/Academic placements
Tagged Careers Placements Experience Centre, Carrie Philp, Employability Ambassadors, Newcastle University, Rachel Glover, RAISE, School of Psychology &Clinical Language Sciences, Sir David Bell KCB
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Developing students’ digital skills through placements – Maximising student engagement
I have previously blogged about my trip to ALT-C in Manchester. In the same week I went to the RAISE Conference in Southampton. The Researching, Advancing & Inspiring Student Engagement day was my first opportunity to speak about some of … Continue reading
Posted in Dissemination, Employability, Placement student showcase, Research, Video, Work/Academic placements
Tagged ALT Conference (ALT-C), Developing students’ digital skills through placements, Nadja Guggi, Rachel Glover, RAISE, Student employability, Student engagement, Summer Employment Experience and Discovery (SEED), University of Southampton
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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
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
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
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
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