Work Placements, Internships & Applied Social Research
- Jackie Carter - Manchester University, UK
Showcasing how you can use a work placement to develop your research and professional skills, this warm and personable book demonstrates how you can transfer and grow skills from your academic training to the workplace and maximise the benefits of learning by doing.
The book also:
· Helps you confidently navigate the entire internship process, providing reassuring guidance about key steps such as applying and interviewing for placements
· Highlights the importance of practicing reflective learning and encourages you to become a reflective researcher
· Empowers you to make an internship work for you, giving you key employability and workplace skills.
Drawing on a range of real student voices, this pragmatic guide helps you make the most of the opportunities offered by a work placement and shows how the skills you learn will help you thrive in academia and beyond.
This book provides an interesting set of case studies which will be of benefit to those seeking work related learning and will certaibly be of interest to practitioners supporting them.
On the other hand, the lack theoretical positioning, in terms of work related learning, means that this is unlikely to be suitable for more critical readers
There is no other book like it, and it is very good. We run a course that is very similar to the course that Dr Carter runs and was used as the basis for this book. This book, therefore, covers exactly what we need. Work placements are incredibly valuable to students and having such a book, that outlines how to students experience them and what they should do, is vital.
Good information however not relevant for the intended course
