Student winter placement blogs
23 January 2013
Our students have been busy blogging about their placement year experiences over the holiday period, and so far 2013 looks to be just as promising!
The latest articles to be published on the Humanities & Social Sciences blog range from accounts of celebrity encounters in New Zealand with the likes of Usain Bolt, to an equally glamorous meet up with the University of Bath’s own Faculty Placements Manager, Clare Wilson, described in the words of Cerian as “an academic Mary Poppins, flitting her way between placement students in need all over Europe.”
All of the articles are available to read in full online, and we encourage you to show support for our bloggers by dropping them a friendly comment on any of their articles.
Some of our favourite posts
Mixing with the Celebs in New Zealand!
Sophie Barnes - BA Sport and Social Sciences
Throughout this sheep covered land you are always bumping into and spotting celebrities when you are out and about. I got the chance to mix with a lot of famous people, as for one night I was amongst many past and current Olympic medal winners, and future Olympians and Champions. The event was the Harbour Sport ‘Sport Excellence Awards’, and what a night! After many months of planning and preparation making sure the best decorations, music and food were sourced, selecting the deserving winners from a wide pool of nominees, and selling all the tickets; the night could now go ahead…
Placement Tutors, Chocolate Biscuits and T-shirt Ties
Cerian Jenkins - BSc Politics with International Relations
Today a little piece of Bath came to London.
As part of any University of Bath ’sandwich’ degree, students are allocated a placement tutor, whose role it is to provide a range of support, advice and guidance to help placement students.
Oddly, although everything has been going swimmingly here during my internship, I was nervous. When you’re fully immersed in a placement year, it’s easy to become disassociated with university life, forgetting the routine of tests and assessments that go with it, as well as the mountains of paperwork. To be suddenly reminded of it was strangely unnerving.
All for the love of feet…
Emily Gregg - BSc Sport and Exercise Science
Working as a research fellow at the University of Salford has really allowed me to put my skills already developed at Bath to practical use alongside helping me to learn new skills and work with different equipment. I’m working in the foot and ankle biomechanics department, meaning that everything is very feet related… to some people I imagine this would be their worst nightmare, but for some reason it is a big interest of mine which is why I think I am enjoying my time here so much!
Tracht und Pracht- how my apron told the world I was widowed
Lesley Warren - BA Modern Languages and European Studies (French and German)
Every year, round about the end of September through to the first week of October, Munich, the Bavarian capital, is hit by an internationally-renowned, centuries-old phenomenon which completely changes the city’s character from a pleasantly cultured air to an alcohol-fuelled haze of sea-shantying, swaying, beer-swilling madness. Locals call this ‘die Wiesn’. Some call it ‘ein Chaos’ and make plans to be out of town for its duration. The rest of the world calls it Oktoberfest.
