Category: Jobs and careers
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Venturing Down Under – the start of my study abroad journey in Australia
G’day mate! (Just kidding, I’ve not been here long enough to be saying that seriously). Hi everyone. I’ve been living in Australia now for 4 months, studying at the University…
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Internship Opportunities at York
My Internship Over the summer, I had the amazing opportunity to complete an internship with the University’s social media team. The amount of independence and creative freedom I was given…
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My Management placement experience so far…
Hey again everyone, can you believe the last time you heard from me was a month ago? It feels like yesterday that I was sitting down to write about how…
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Bring it On: embarking on a Management industrial placement
Hey everyone, I’m Katy, and I’m an Accounting, Business Finance and Management (but we all call it ABFM) student. I’ve just finished my second year and I’m about to start…
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Gap Year and Well-Being: the Unplanned as Part of Your Plan
On my gap year, I didn’t do the typical backpacking-round-Asia. Nonetheless, I gained some valuable life skills and definitely improved my confidence in talking to people in my community. I…
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Taking a Gap Year: being 21 and a little behind…
From where it all began… I’ve always inspired to become a doctor. I have trodden the path that would eventually lead me to medicine. Both my parents and school environment…
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Working with North Yorkshire Police on a human rights placement
I was one of a team of 4 students working with North Yorkshire Police on a human rights placement in York. We looked at the impact of framing of rights…
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Interviewing front-line officers on placement with North Yorkshire Police
A considerable motive behind me joining this course was its unique feature of placing students for two weeks with different human rights organisations within the UK and abroad. Perhaps no…
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A placement in Kuala Lumpur with the Women’s Aid Organisation
The opportunity to do a placement in Malaysia was one of the reasons I chose to do my human rights law degree in York. Nowadays concrete work experience is essential,…
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Evaluating Rape Crisis services in Cape Town
The opportunity to go to Cape Town on placement was a key reason I chose to come to the University of York for my Masters, and the experience did not…
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Supporting Voices of Africans for Change on placement in South Africa
When I was first looking into a masters at the University of York, I was attracted to the possibility of going for a two week placement in South Africa. South…
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Researching refugee leadership and participation across the Asia Pacific
One of the key components of the LLM is the two-week placement period towards the end of the first semester. Students have the opportunity to conduct a research project in…