Dissertation project with Street Child

Street Child is a development charity working in parts of Africa, and is offering a unique opportunity to combine research for your dissertation with travel and volunteering. If you think your dissertation might suit this opportunity, please contact your supervisor to discuss how to make the most of this opportunity.

Want to make your dissertation stand out and make yourself more employable?

Conduct your primary/secondary research with an education based charity in West Africa or South Asia!

STREET CHILD is seeking applications from motivated individuals hoping to gain valuable experience in the development sector by undertaking a volunteer role in Sierra Leone, Liberia, Nepal or Sri Lanka.

As part of the role, we are offering a unique opportunity to students looking to explore the scope of their own dissertation projects. Use bespoke methodologies to conduct research on the ground for your dissertation, in collaboration with local partner organisations. In addition to this you will also have exclusive access to previous research by Street Child.

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Looking for work or an internship? Head to the CES jobs board

The University is regularly contacted by companies and organisations and asked to advertise jobs, graduate schemes, internships, and volunteering opportunities.

These are all hosted on the University’s jobs board, at https://careers.kent.ac.uk/home.html.

Log in with your Kent IT details, and you will be able to browse vacancies, find details, and submit applications. You can also use this service to keep an eye on upcoming employability workshops and events, and book a place at any that interest you.

If you’re looking for work experience or a placement, you can also sign up to KEW-NET, the University’s e-mentoring platform.

KEW-NET allows Kent graduates to connect with current students and offer you support as you start out in the world of work. Each mentor can choose which services they offer, from speaking to you on the phone or reviewing your CV, to offering internship opportunities and work shadowing events. And if you sign up to KEW-NET as a student, you can choose to become a mentor yourself as you progress through your career.

Enactus Kent – Team Training Day

The School has been advertising the work of Enactus Kent, a student society involved in organising volunteering projects and helping students to significantly enhance their CVs and skillsets. This is a blog post summarising their recent team training day, which was open to all Enactus Kent members.

If you would like to join Enactus Kent, you can find them on Facebook or on their website at www.enactuskent.org.

We at Enactus Kent, a student society creating self-sustainable volunteer projects, held our first training event on the 8th of November. It was an afternoon filled with skills sessions, information workshops, ice-breakers and teambuilding activities.

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Focus group: Your Experience Matters

Sent on Behalf of Professor April McMahon, Deputy Vice Chancellor for Education, University of Kent and Ruth Wilkinson, Kent Union President

What do you want from your experience at Kent? What do you think is available to you? What are you taking advantage of? What is most important to you in that experience?

If you are a 2nd or 3rd year undergraduate student, please come to a focus group discussion to tell us! Discussions for students from the Humanities Faculty will be held at:

Tuesday, 28th November, 14:00, Eliot Extension Seminar Room 1 

Refreshments will be served.

Find out more and sign up at: https://www.kent.ac.uk/cshe/projects.html

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PGR students – Placement scheme launch

The Graduate School and Kent Innovation and Enterprise are collaborating to launch a placement scheme providing professional opportunities for postgraduate researchers in the 2017/18 academic year.  There will be a stipend for postgraduates who participate in the scheme.

We will be holding a launch event between 12.30 and 2.00pm on Wednesday 15th November 2017 in the Graduate School Training Room (Cornwallis East). This event is open to both staff members and postgraduate researchers and will include information on the scheme as well as presentations from representatives who have benefitted from taking part in a placement or fixed term role with an organisation or business.  Presentations will take place between 12.30 and 1.15 followed by a light lunch and networking.

Please book a place by completing this doodle poll.

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CES focus groups – Tues 14th Nov

The Careers and Employability Service is holding a pair of focus groups with students next week, and you are invited to go along.

As thanks for taking part, the CES will be offering a free Lunch, 10 Employability Points, and – most importantly – the chance to have your say about student employability and the support on offer at the University of Kent.

The focus group sessions will last one hour, and will start at 12noon and 2pm (you can pick which session to go along to) on Tuesday 14th November in Rutherford Cloister Room 15.

If you would like to take part, please email careerhelp@kent.ac.uk with the subject ‘Focus Group’ to register your interest by Friday 10th November.

Volunteering: Roles at PWRR and Queen’s Museum

The Princess of Wales’ Royal Regiment and the Queen’s Regiment Museum – based inside Dover Castle – have several volunteering opportunities available, to work with their staff as a Collections Assistant or a Museum Assistant.

These roles are excellent opportunities for any students interested in a career in the museums and heritage sector to gain some invaluable experience of working in a busy museum. Training will be provided, and travel costs to and from Dover Castle will be provided by the museum (applicants may also be eligible to receive funding from the University’s Experience of Work bursary scheme).

For more information, download the role descriptions below. To apply, email the Assistant Curator, Catherine Holt, at pwrrqueensmuseum@btconnect.com.

Museum Assistant

Collections Assistant

Guest Post: Enactus Kent – graduate placements with Centrica

Centrica, an Enactus sponsor company, hosted a Webminar for Enactus Kent students on Wednesday, 18th October about their graduate programmes and placement opportunities.

Centrica, a company in the energy and services sector, offer Graduate Programmes in areas such as Marketing, Engineering, Human Resources and more. They have a nationwide programme with a competitive salary and benefits, a wide range of programmes and fantastic development opportunities.

 

Through the Webminar, Centrica provided insights into their entire application process from the requirements to the online application, telephone interview and assessment centre as well as the one-on-one interview. This was followed by their top tips for submitting an application and a question and answer round.

Many Enactus Alumni have gone on to work at Centrica after graduating from university. Being an Enactus UK Sponsor Company, Centrica is committed to helping Enactus students produce a winning application for their graduate programme, providing support at every stage of the process. If you are part of Enactus, they will read your application and provide feedback before submitting, complete a mock telephone interview, and do a coaching call before your assessment centre.

If you would like to join Enactus Kent and get exclusive access to the other webinars and opportunities like these, you can find us on Facebook or at www.enactuskent.org

Volunteers Wanted – Age of Revolutions Project

Dr Ben Marsh is currently looking for volunteers who are interested in taking part in the Age of Revolutions Project that will be running between 2017 and 2020.

The University of Kent scheme will match student volunteers up with appropriate projects for their interests, skills, time availability, and ambitions, with the possibility of student placements (e.g. travelling to work in museums or archives for short periods), project work (e.g. writing descriptive content or designing artwork for digital resources), and other activities supporting research or work with schools.

We will be running a range of trips and workshops, including a discounted visit to Waterloo in February, and the first placements are expected to begin in Spring 2018 but opportunities will run through 2019.

Attached is a call for volunteers, containing more information about the project, and a short application form which anyone interested should complete and return to Dr Marsh by Monday 13th November 2017.

For more information, download this call for volunteers. To apply, complete application form and send it to Dr Marsh (either hand it in to the History Reception or scan and email it to B.J.Marsh@kent.ac.uk.