Research@Work: preparing students for their placement year
Published 12 May 2011
Research@Work is a unique five-day course for second-year undergraduates who will be completing a work placement as part of their degree. The course ran for the first time in March this year, and helps students to make the most of their work placement and enable them to capitalise on their experience of working in complex organisations.
Find out more about Research@Work in this video, in which staff, students and employers discuss the benefits of Lancaster's unique approach to work placements.
When students return to Lancaster for their final year on completion of their one-year placement, they write a dissertation on their workplace experience. It means that the sandwich year is not just a year out in industry: it's fully embedded in students' academic experience at Lancaster.
Alison Tasker Seminar
The Alison Tasker Seminar is a competition for final-year sandwich degree at LUMS, at which students who've completed their sandwich year make presentations about their year in industry. This year the seminar formed part of the Research@Work course.
The award commemorates Alison Tasker, a LUMS student who sadly died while on her placement year.
Shorlisted students presented to a large audience of second-year students who were taking the Research@Work course. The presentations give second-year students real insights into what they can expect when embarking on their own placement year.
On this occasion the judging panel comprised employers from IBM, Fujitsu, Johnson & Johnson, Innocent and Mazars, in addition to senior academics.
