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Post Graduate Internships - Closing date Extended

The current economic climate has made it particularly difficult for graduates to find relevant employment on finishing their degrees and lack of experience and contacts often appears to be a hurdle in securing a first job.

Post Graduate Experience with a Community and Voluntary Organisation

The University of Brighton has responded to this through the development of a new, one semester, post graduate module which enables participants to enhance their employment experience in community sectors while gaining a 20 credit Master’s module.

We are currently offering twenty different part-time 3 month internships with local voluntary or statutory organisations starting in March and going on till May 2012.

The opportunities are aimed particularly at graduates from any university who are living in the area and who finished their studies in July of the previous year but not yet secured work in their chosen field. The module may be used towards gaining employment or as partial completion of a full MA programme.

* Please note that the closing date has been extended to Friday 24th February *

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University of Brighton - Student Placement Opportunities

Cupp and Active student are beginning to organise placements for the Community Participation and Development module for University of Brighton students for the coming academic year. Students will be looking to undertake a volunteering role/ community based placement with organisations which could be regular and ongoing or a fixed project of 50 hours.

Student volunteers and placement students aim to make a significant contribution to organisations and create ‘added value’, whilst gaining real world experience and new skills, and putting current skills learned on their degree and in other arenas into practice. Most students are on social science, language or environment and technology degrees and project activities are undertaken between October 2011 and May 2012.

City’s key players team up to debate new stadium

RESS RELEASE - June 27th 2011

Partnership is the key to the success of the new American Express Community Stadium. That was the message from an event that brought together speakers from both major universities in the city, Albion in the Community and American Express last week.

Launch of new resource on community university partnerships

www.coastalcommunities.org.uk

South East Coastal Communities (SECC) was funded by the Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE) as a demonstrator project from 2008-2011. The aim of the project was for universities to work collaboratively with members of their local communities in order to build capacity to meet health and wellbeing needs. The programme sought to encourage knowledge exchange between universities and community across the South East coastal region, involving nine higher education institutions from Kent, Sussex and Hampshire. This resource contains:

A film that illustrates the programme as a whole, and 3 films that focus on each county
4 briefing papers on lessons learnt
Evaluation reports
Details of projects

Please do take a look and if you would like to offer any feedback or discuss the South East Coastal Communities programme please contact Dave Wolff at This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it

Social Engagement Research Sabbatical

We are pleased to announce that Niki Khan from the School of Applied Social Sciences successfully applied to the new Social Engagement Research Sabbatical Scheme at the University. Niki joined Brighton as a lecturer in Psychology in 2008 from the University of Sussex where she completed a Phd in Social Anthropology on ethnic militancy amongst young men in a migrant community in Karachi, Pakistan.

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