Employability
Placement opportunities
Our level 3 placement module goes from strength to strength. This year saw 30 students take part in placements (up from 18 students in the previous year).
The work-based learning placement module (IS3108) is designed to help students use their workplace experience as an opportunity for personal and academic development. The module enables students to critically analyse and reflect upon learning styles, skills, strengths and weaknesses, plan how they can develop them and learn from their work experience. The placement module allows students to develop specialist skills, working with professionals in a variety of fields.
This year, for example, students have had the opportunity to develop a variety of professional and personal skills via placements working in social enterprise, local government, homeless charities, education, the National Health Service, outreach groups for victims of domestic violence, mental health organisations, cultural centres, the voluntary and charity sectors, and the retail sector.
Students taking the module have developed their personal and key skills, increased their employability skills, used the transfer of skills effectively and become reflective practitioners in the workplace.
Peter Glynne Thomas on the Employability module
Simon, NGO Basildon
Liz, Sainsburys
Stephanie, national marketing
Examples of placements (2012-13)
- CORECOG www.corecog.org.uk
- Westminster Society www.wspld.org.uk
- Positive East www.positiveeast.org.uk
- Citizens Advice Bureau (Havering) www.haveringcab.org.uk
- Groundwork South Essex www.eastofengland.groundwork.org.uk/south-essex.aspx
- Tuck by Truck www.mcch.org.uk
- Newham Action Against Domestic Violence (NAADV) www.naadv.org.uk
- Day-Mer www.daymer.org
- National Association for People Abused in Childhood (NACAP) www.napac.org.uk
- Lifetime Learning www.lifetimelearning.org.uk
- Queen Elizabeth hospital, Woolwich www.slh.nhs.uk
- My Social Innovation (MySI) www.mysi.org.uk
- The Robes Project www.robes.org.uk
- Shaw Primary school www.shawprimary.thurrock.sch.uk
- Bright Women www.brightwomenorganisation.co.uk
- Elise Centre www.elisecentre.com
- Yoomoo www.yoomoo.com
- Sainsbury’s www.sainsburys.co.uk
Project Oracle
From September 2012 onwards, our students have been encouraged to participate in Project Oracle. Project Oracle allows universities and their students to support London-based provider organisations develop their evaluation work and where academics and students can demonstrate and develop their research and evaluation skills.
Project Oracle has the specific remit of “understanding and sharing what really works” to reduce serious youth violence in London through strengthening project evaluation practices. It is currently looking for potential student research placements to match with provider organisations and a representative from Project Oracle will be discussing potential opportunities with our level 2 undergraduate students in Semester B.
The project is supported by the Greater London Authority (GLA), The Mayor’s Office for Policing and Crime (MOPAC) and the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC). For more information visit www.project-oracle.com
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