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Tag Archives: Summer Employment Experience and Discovery (SEED)
Sneak preview: Digitally Ready at PELeCON
I am writing this en route en to Devon where I will be presenting a paper on ‘Digital literacies and work placements’ at Plymouth Enhanced Learning Conference (PELeCON) tomorrow morning. As I was getting my thoughts together for the talk … Continue reading
Posted in Meetings & Events, Research, Work/Academic placements
Tagged Careers Placements Experience Centre, Developing Effective E-Learning: The Development Pyramid, Digital literacies and work placements, Helen Beetham, Nadja Guggi, Plymouth Enhanced Learning Conference (PELeCON), Rachel Glover, Reading Internship Scheme (RIS), Rhona Sharpe, Summer Employment Experience and Discovery (SEED), Undergraduate Research Opportunities Programme (UROP)
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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: Rachel Glover
Subscribers of this blog will have followed the adventures of our placement student, the fabulous Rachel Glover, who has been working with us since June on the student employability aspects of the Digitally Ready project. Rachel has now started her … Continue reading
Posted in Dissemination, Employability, Research, Video, Work/Academic placements
Tagged ALT Conference (ALT-C), Assessing work placements, Department of Politics & International Relations, Digital Literacies for Student Employability, Experiences with Digital Literacies, Nadja Guggi, Rachel Glover, RAISE, Sir David Bell KCB, Summer Employment Experience and Discovery (SEED), Video
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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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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
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
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
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