We are pleased to offer a placement year degree option, in which our Arts and Social Sciences students can spend a year in industry.
A 12-month placement is an important element of our students' degrees, creating the opportunity to gain first-hand experience of the issues faced in a professional workplace environment and the methods to address them.
During their placements, our students complete a wide variety of jobs which are essential to the employer and involve genuine responsibility. The students will start their placement after their second year of studies, returning to Lancaster afterwards to complete their final year.
Timescales: Students are available from mid/late June each year, and placements must end in time for them to return to their course at the end of September the following year.
Costs: Students are usually paid, as a minimum, the National Living Wage.
Could your organisation benefit from a flexible, short-term internship with one of our Arts and Social Sciences students?
Taking on a student intern provides organisations with an excellent opportunity to address a skill or resource shortage by benefiting from up-to-date skills and knowledge.
Our talented students could support growth in business, trial new roles or research a new idea.
Timescales: Students are available during term-time for flexible hours roles, and over the summer vacation period for full-time (35 hours a week +) roles. Internships could last from 40 hours up to 360 hours.
Costs: We have a range of funding options available, including part funding and match funding for SMEs, Charities and third-sector organisations.
Could your organisation do with some extra support on a project? Many of our degree subjects now have embedded work-based learning modules, whereby students will combine theoretical knowledge with some real-life work experience. By taking on one of our students for a work-based learning project, you will benefit from the extra time and support of an enthusiastic student, all while helping to enrich their learning and development.
Our English & Creative Writing, Linguistics, History, Sociology and Criminology departments offer work-based learning modules which run every year. Each student has an individual learning agreement and will be prepared for the transition into the workplace.
Timescales: from April - August we work with host organisations to plan work placements to run in the following between February to April. Students can spend up to 40 hours with an organisation, or in some cases up to 70 hours when combined with a dissertation research project.
Cost: None. Students volunteer for the duration of their work-based learning placement.
