The University of Bath are inviting three local organisations to benefit from a fully paid student or to do a work project within the organisation. The scheme is led by the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, who see the importance in providing real world opportunities to students and have partnered up with the Santander Employability Scheme.
During Summer 2023, three projects took place with one local SME and two local charities. Two of these projects were focused on the charities addressing their organisations response to their carbon emissions. Students were supported by the University of Bath’s Climate Action Team to look at the organisations carbon emissions and providing recommendations to reduce these in the different Scopes.
The third project worked with an SME on customer and product research, attending on site events and meeting members of the public to provide detailed feedback for their product moving forward.
All three organisations and students reported positive feedback on their experience, and The University of Bath would like to host three more organisations this year to work with their students.
“The entire process, from initial planning to the final stages, was smooth. The University's role in facilitating this internship was clear and effective, leaving no room for confusion or improvement from our perspective.” Simon Allen, AGE UK BANES, CEO.
The work project can be completed virtually or in person. The project will take place over the summer of 2024 and students can work up to 108 hours over the project (maximum of 35 hours per week).
The University of Bath are keen to hear from organisations that are interested in the projects format. This may be a different subject from climate action, but they would still like to hear from you and how their students could support one of your organisation’s projects.
Benefits to your organisation:
· An opportunity to address a challenge/issue which they are facing
· A cost-effective way of gaining free additional resource and insight
· Exposure to future graduate recruits
· Enthusiastic students eager to deliver high quality work
· CPD opportunities for existing team members
Students would apply for the work project and would be expected to provide a summary of their experience to the University and Santander at the end of their work project. The projects can be based around your organisational need, as can be seen from last year's examples, these can be different projects. If you would be interested in support around climate focused work then we can approach our climate action team for support.
If your organisation would be interested in hosting an Employability Project for one of our students during summer 2024 then please reach out to Katie Gilham – Student Success Officer klg48@bath.ac.uk or Annika Theilgaard – Student Engagement Manager act36@bath.ac.uk
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