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Our postgraduate placements are designed to help you recognise the breadth of your potential and highlight future opportunities.

About our placements

Each placement involves a discrete project at an external organisation for which the postgraduate researcher acts as a specialist consultant. The placements are delivered in partnership with a wide range of employers from small local businesses to multinational organisations. 

We generally offer two types of placement:

  • part-time projects, up to 200 hours, for a period of 3-6 months.

  • full-time 3 month internships.

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Current Vacancies

  • Assessing research integrity in UK research performing organisations
    Employer: POSTGRADUATE PLACEMENTS NOTTINGHAM
    Application closing date: 12 Feb 2023
    Location: Remote and UNIP, Nottingham East Midlands United Kingdom
    Are you looking to gain practical work experience managing and conducting a quantitative and qualitative data collection and analysis project? Working with a leading research consultancy business, this project would be best suited to candidates with experience in designing and conducting mixed-method research projects and knowledge of research integrity.
  • Delivery Sustainability Project
    Employer: POSTGRADUATE PLACEMENTS NOTTINGHAM
    Application closing date: 19 Feb 2023
    Location: Nottingham and remote East Midlands United Kingdom
    This placement would be excellent experience for a PGT Postgraduate looking to gain experience in working with consultancy organisations. This placement is looking to support an innovative IT consultancy to develop a sustainability framework focusing on Key Performance Indicators and lifecycles.
  • Production Mapping and Project Management Improvement
    Employer: POSTGRADUATE PLACEMENTS NOTTINGHAM
    Application closing date: 12 Feb 2023
    Location: Newark East Midlands United Kingdom
    This project will be working with the production team at a leading Sports Car Manufacturer to support the development of their growth and efficiency on a global level. This placement would suit a business postgraduate looking for experience in improving business and production efficiency with a fast paced growing car producer.
  • Scope 3 Calculator Development Project
    Employer: POSTGRADUATE PLACEMENTS NOTTINGHAM
    Application closing date: 12 Feb 2023
    Location: Nottingham and remote East Midlands United Kingdom
    This placement is ideally suited for a Computer Science postgraduate or a postgraduate with programming experience. You will be working for a unique tech start up supporting their expansion and development of a carbon calculation system to allow clients to calculate their carbon emissions.
  • Expansion Business Planning Project
    Employer: POSTGRADUATE PLACEMENTS NOTTINGHAM
    Application closing date: 5 Feb 2023
    Location: Remote/ Nottingham East Midlands United Kingdom
    This project would be ideally suited to a postgraduate in Business Management that is looking to gain experience at a high level in supporting strategic growth within a business. You will be assisting a local family run business with their expansion plans of a new cafe with the creation of a strategic 3 year plan.
  • Marketing strategy development for an innovative web-based tool
    Employer: POSTGRADUATE PLACEMENTS NOTTINGHAM
    Application closing date: 5 Feb 2023
    Location: Remote Working East Midlands United Kingdom
    Working at the cutting-edge of scientific research to employ creative and disruptive techniques to challenge the status-quo of how biodiversity is managed in practice, this business is looking for a marketing postgraduate with an enthusiasm or knowledge of Biodiversity and the environment. They have developed an automated web tool to help land buyers and developers screen for biodiversity risk and want you to develop a marketing strategy to make sure it is known to customers.

 

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