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Enhancing Graduate Employability Through Summer Placements

Learn about the Summer Placement Scheme in the School of Life and Medical Sciences, including project examples and employment prospects. Explore the impact on students and future plans for expanding high-flyer activities.

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Enhancing Graduate Employability Through Summer Placements

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  1. Driving graduate employability through summer placements Philomena Shaughnessy & Shivani Sharma School of Life and Medical Sciences

  2. Overview • School context • Employment prospects • Summer Placement Scheme • Examples of completed projects • Questions

  3. Life and Medical Sciences • Three departments: • Biological and Environmental Sciences • Pharmacy, Pharmacology and Postgraduate Medicine • Psychology and Sport Sciences • Mix of programme types: • Professional pathways (e.g. Pharmacy) • First stage to entry into further training (e.g. Psychology)

  4. Life and Medical Sciences • Latest DLHE Data for UG, First Degree Leavers: • Employment indictor is 95% • Most students enter full time work (68.7%) • Full time study (11.1%) • Pockets of areas where market competition is very high. Plan B needed: • Biosciences • Psychology

  5. High Flyers Scheme • Internship type schemes to fuel graduate employability (Helyer & Lee, 2014) • LMS ‘High Flyers Scheme’: • Provide real world experience • Opportunity to practice graduate attributes in a ‘safe’ environment • Talent management • 4 weeks over the summer • £1,000 bursary • 2-4 positions open per year (depending on budget)

  6. High Flyers Scheme: Example Projects • Academic Integrity Video: • High number of academic misconduct cases each year • Established need to further support students with understanding key concepts • Placement included: • Working with 2 x Associate Dean’s and an external organization • Pilot work with students and staff to identify information needs • Storyboard • Piloting proposed video content with students • Feedback on animation look and feel • Finalizing

  7. High Flyers Scheme: Example Projects • Student Rep Guide: • Good practice across the School to share • Reps requesting more support in their role • Placement involved: • Establishing a working group of interested reps • Organizing meetings to discuss effective strategies • Summarizing main approaches and understanding information needs • Drafting handbook • Working with marketing to produce and review Rep Guide

  8. What do the students say? • 'I applied for this placement because I wanted some experience after finishing my degree and with a project that would allow me to work independently. I also wanted to know more about an organization such as a University from a different perspective. Having completed the placement, I feel that I have further developed my skills in project management and working in a professional environment’ (Megan Smith, 2015)

  9. Where Next? • Expanding High Flyers Activity: • Broader project range across Associate Dean areas • Developing links with other organizations to offer similar initiatives (paid and voluntary) • Hillingdon Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust 2 x placements in 15-16 • Follow-up of students who completed the placements to assess benefits

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