Work Placements, Internships & Applied Social Research
- Jackie Carter - Manchester University, UK
Showcasing how you can use a work placement to develop your research and professional skills, this warm and personable book demonstrates how you can transfer and grow skills from your academic training to the workplace and maximise the benefits of learning by doing.
The book also:
· Helps you confidently navigate the entire internship process, providing reassuring guidance about key steps such as applying and interviewing for placements
· Highlights the importance of practicing reflective learning and encourages you to become a reflective researcher
· Empowers you to make an internship work for you, giving you key employability and workplace skills.
Drawing on a range of real student voices, this pragmatic guide helps you make the most of the opportunities offered by a work placement and shows how the skills you learn will help you thrive in academia and beyond.
This book has lots of practical advice to help you get the most out of your work-placement – read it before you start applying!
A helpful guide for students to consult before, during and after their placements. The chapters are written in a very engaging style, both authoritative and friendly, so it is easy to put a great deal of trust in the advice being offered.
I also very much like the author’s little stories of how she has learned from her own experiences. They will help students think about their placement experiences in a new light or from different perspectives. Having the student narratives is very helpful in that regard, as they can learn from those experiences as well as having them to hold their own placement experiences up against.
This book contains good examples of experiential learning and the emphasis on workplace learning and the possibility to achieve a successful internship / placement is made very real. The narrative is most supportive to those anxious about their first placement.
This book provides an interesting set of case studies which will be of benefit to those seeking work related learning and will certaibly be of interest to practitioners supporting them.
On the other hand, the lack theoretical positioning, in terms of work related learning, means that this is unlikely to be suitable for more critical readers
There is no other book like it, and it is very good. We run a course that is very similar to the course that Dr Carter runs and was used as the basis for this book. This book, therefore, covers exactly what we need. Work placements are incredibly valuable to students and having such a book, that outlines how to students experience them and what they should do, is vital.
Good information however not relevant for the intended course
Sage College Publishing
