Work placements: English

Our placement partners

Current placement partners include:

• Manuscripts and Special Collections – an archive of unique material housed at King's Meadow Campus at the University of Nottingham.
• Nottingham Lakeside Arts – a multi-arts centre in the East Midlands established on the University campus in 2001.
• Third Culture Nellie - a travel platform that aims to make long-term travel more accessible by sharing affordable and quirky ways to travel, work and study abroad as well as debunk country stereotypes.
• Eat Argentina - an Argentinian street food, woman-led, family business which aims to help women gain skills and boost their confidence, so that they can reach their potential.
  
• Nottingham University Hospitals - a great opportunity for students to develop their therapeutic reading and public speaking skills in a hospital setting. 
• Teaching English as an Additional Language in Primary Schools (NAA) - a new programme aiming to use the existing skills and knowledge of students to support English as an Additional Language (EAL) pupils in Nottingham primary schools.
  

Nottingham Advantage Award modules

The Nottingham Advantage Award allows you to prepare for the job market and get formal recognition of your extracurricular activities. 

Popular School of English Advantage Award modules include:

Career planning skills for English students - reflect on your personal development, employability, career path and job-seeking skills.

Literacy volunteers - available to those who volunteer on the School of English Literacy Support Project. It is an excellent way of gaining accreditation for your volunteering role.

Peer mentoring for English - second-and final-year students acting as peer mentors to new students can take this accompanying Advantage Award module.

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Volunteering opportunities 

Anglo-Saxons for schools

Deliver workshops to local primary schools. Help bring the Viking age to life for children, and develop your own skills.

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Shared reading groups    

Get valuable experience working with either our Dementia Reading Group or Community Reading Group. You will promote the health benefits of reading aloud in group contexts, as well as building experience in: 

• Working with adults (especially older adults)
• Facilitating a shared reading group
• Planning, research and preparation of material
• Developing interpersonal skills

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Student case studies