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Balancing books and bills: an exploration of the hidden world of student workers

SRHE

Moreover, meaningful work experience or employment can be seen as critical for a number of professions – a mechanism to distinguish between graduates with the same 2:1 degree but with differing employability capital. To what extent is student employment detrimental?

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Career Development Planning

Teaching Matters Student Employment

With the group labour market project my aim was to make the assessment more relevant to the students (they will be entering the labour market at some point in the future after all) and to embrace the concept of students as co-creators of knowledge. So what was the result? Well so far so good!

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A real leveller: Improving a year-long, team-based project for undergraduates and professional industry mentors during lockdown

Teaching Matters Student Employment

Most recently, Zoe has been involved with Daydream Believers , a free, ready to use, online resource bank for educators that utilise creativity, critical thinking and problem-solving techniques applicable across the curriculum and beyond. Zoe’s research in the field of education has manifest itself in a number of design and teaching projects.

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CoDI Show: Is astronaut food the future?

Teaching Matters Student Employment

It is not that I lack the opportunity; over the past few years, I have taught “Discovery of Space” as part of an undergraduate History of Science course, looking particularly at the societal issues in the development of science and technology and the role they play in our every-day lives.

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