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Learning Enhancement Fellowships 2010-11: Employability
These projects were all undertaken to support student employability.
Goldsmiths Artists: networks and visibility (in the Department of Music)
Simon Deacon, Music
Current music industry interest in Goldsmiths could be very useful to students. This fellowship set up online and physical showcases for students' work, and supported connections with record companies and venues. Management of some of the spaces has been handed to students, giving them experience of curatorship, publicity, and sound engineering.
Supporting Goldsmiths Design Graduates:
How to maintain high levels of employability in the challenging times ahead?
Charlotte Grinling, Design
The Fellowship allowed Design to revise its Professional Practice course, and methods of learning and teaching on the course. Course activities include: workshops and seminars designed to help students situate themselves professionally; seminars on dealing with interviews and applications; speakers from industry; placement support.
Embedding Awareness, Skills and Experience for History Students
Sarah Lambert, History
The specific employability benefits of a History degree have not often been articulated. This project has set up an accredited placement module (which we believe to be the only one in History in the UK) and has agreed placements with local institutions including the London Transport Museum, the Wellcome Collection, St Pauls, and the Inner Temple.
Reflective Practice Sociology Placements
Pamela Odih, Sociology
This project devised placements which will not only provide students with work experience, but will require them to apply a reflective sociological understanding to the companies with which they are working.
The Treasures of Special Collections in Goldsmiths Library
Elizabeth Williams, Library
The Special Collections are an excellent and underused institutional resource. This project made the collections, and collection users, visible via video. Films will be made available here (and on the library web pages) when completed.
Career Links for Psychology Students
Alice Jones, Psychology
Psychology has created a career development and employability programme of study and resources that run throughout the BSc programme.