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Make sure you are ready for whatever comes your way, with enhanced commercial awareness, creative problem solving and project management capabilities. Learn all this and more at the Engagement Academy.

The Engagement Academy can help students to develop key skills in preparation for whatever work-based learning opportunities they have access to as part of their degree, or whatever work pathway they might explore when they graduate.

Key dates for the Engagement Academy 8b:

• Applications Close: midnight on the 13th March.
• Offers & acceptances (16 places): Week Beginning 13th March
• 1st Session: Monday 27th March 9 am - 5 pm
• 2nd Session: Tuesday 28th March 9 am - 5 pm

How can the Engagement Academy help me?

The Engagement Academy can help students to develop key skills in preparation for whatever work-based learning opportunities they have access to as part of their degree, or whatever work pathway they might explore when they graduate. You’ll use this experience to develop your confidence to navigate uncertain situations to help your host or potential employer achieve their goals. You’ll demonstrate that you bring more than just your degree knowledge and can apply it all in meaningful ways.

It's transferrable and practical

The things you'll learn, practice and develop in this programme can be applied in any context. Accelerate your social or environmental activism, impress assessors in a competitive selection process and develop yourself and your outlook through this programme. Even if you don't know what you want to do after university, you will be equipped with a solid foundation of tools, approaches and mindsets to draw on.

It's social and interactive

All our lives have been transformed by COVID-19, and reports are already beginning to emerge about the impact on students and other young adults, particularly in terms of social anxiety resulting from this period of isolation and collective uncertainty. Our sessions - be they in-person, online or mixed-mode - provide safe spaces for you to top up your confidence; meet other people who care about the same things as you, make new friends and expand your personal network.

It's performance-enhancing

There is a lot riding on any work-based learning opportunities you take up whilst at university. You have to learn to represent yourself and the University professionally in everything you do, find ways to apply what you've been learning in your degree, and you need to be able to describe this and what you learned from it through whatever assignments you'll need to complete afterwards. This programme will give you a boost in all these areas.