Faculty of Social Sciences Placements
The University of Nottingham retired its blog service in December 2025.
This Faculty of Social Sciences placement blog library contains a wide range of student placement stories, reflections as well as hints and tips to provide inspiration and guidance to future students interested in getting first-steps or additional work experience!
If you are a current student, please visit the social sciences placement website here for more support, advice and opportunities to apply: https://moodle.nottingham.ac.uk/course/view.php?id=125254
The following is a list of preserved posts from the Faculty of Social Sciences Placements blog. These blog posts are searchable. You can search for keywords such as 'marketing', 'events', 'media, 'research' 'environment', 'dbs checks', 'international', etc... as well as for organsisations, such as 'Fearless Youth Association', 'City Council', 'Environment Agency', etc.... To search, simply use ctrl+F (Windows) or cmd+F (Mac)
- Baillie Gifford - 'Alternative Intern 2020'
- Blessing Nkama - Market Researcher at Lots for Tots
- Chloe Havez – Manuscripts and Special Collections Archival Assistant Internship
- Commercial Law Centre & School of Law Partnership Internship with World Bank Group
- Ditchley Placement as part of the Faculty Widening Participation Placements Programme
- From Intern to Employee!
- From Volunteer to Employee! - My placement at The Pythian Club
- Gladys Poon - Refugee Roots
- Kimaya Jadhav – My Experience as a Global Engagement Officer
- Global Entrepreneurs UK in Turkey
- Global Placement Grant - Education Intern with the Rosie May Foundation in Pokhara, Nepal
- Global Placement Grant - Learning Mentor Volunteer
- Global Placement Grant - Legal Practice Internship in Valencia, Spain.
- Global Placement Grant - My Time in Nepal as a Volunteer Teacher
- Global Placement Grant - My time in Zimbabwe
- Global Placement Grant - my time volunteering with Gotoco
- Global Placement Grant - Social development volunteer for Travelteer in Nepal
- Global Placement Grant - Student bloggers visit Nottingham
- Global Placement Grant - Volunteer at 24th World Scout Jamboree West Virginia, USA
- Global Placement Grant - Volunteer at refugee camp in Croatia
- Global Placement Grant - Volunteer at Rosie May Foundation in Pokhara, Nepal
- Global Placement Grant - volunteering with Anglovi
- Global Placement Grant - Volunteering with Refugee Support EU in Cyprus
- Global Placement Grant - Volunteering with Travelteer in Nepal
- Government Communications Service Internships Programme
- Government Communications Service (GCS) Internship for the Civil Service
- Government Communications Service Internship Reflections
- Grace Millward - Nottingham Counselling Service
- Gurdeep Kaur - DSA - Environment + Design
- Hiya Patel- My Marketing and Insight Internship Experience
- International Police Association placement
- Internship at Pathways Housing Solutions
- Internship with GluoNNet
- Joe Barron - Chicken feet, selfies and vodka tea? My summer school experience in China
- Julia Struk-Zawadzka - Transparency International UK
- Kush Tanvani - Environment Agency
- Lara Cuthbertson - Navigating the World of Marketing: A Student’s Insightful Journey through a Dynamic 10-W
- Leah Russon Watkins - LGBT Foundation
- Meghana Badanapuram - Islamophobia Response Unit
- Ministry of Defence/DSTL placement and USSTRATCOM Deterrence Symposium
- My Data Science Placement at UCAS (University and Colleges Admissions Service)
- My Experience as a Business Partnership Officer at the Nottingham City Council 2020
- My Experience as a DSTL Deterrence and Assurance Research Intern and the 2020 United States Strategic C
- My experience at Peopletoo in Nottingham – Arinade Bademosi
- My experience at Phoenix Aspirational Learning Support in Nottingham
- My experience conducting research with the Defence Science and Technology Laboratory (DSTL) and the De
- My internships at The Environment Agency Incident Management and Flood Technical Support Officer at Tre
- My Nottinghamshire County Council placement
- My PALs teaching placement and best tips on getting a DBS check
- My placement as a content editor at FMB radio
- My placement at Aspley Foundation
- My Placement at B-Global
- My placement at Cerebral Palsy Sport
- My placement at Enodo Economics as a Research Intern
- My Placement at FMB Radio as a Content Researcher
- My placement at Manchester and East Midlands Rail Action Partnership (MEMRAP)
- My Placement at Pathway Housing Solutions
- My placement at Rainbow Parent Carers Forum as a Business Support Officer'
- My placement with Fearless Youth Association
- My Placement with Mojatu Foundation
- My Placement with Nottingham Citizens
- My Placement with Nottingham Mencap
- My placement with Refugee Roots
- My Placement with Royal United Services Institute
- My placement with Think for the Future
- My Placement with Trent Rivers Trust
- My Placement with Vanclaron
- My Placement Year at BDO (Binder Dijker Otte)
- My Regulated Industry Placement at The Environment Agency'
- My Term Time Placement at the Environment Agency
- Ben Thompson - 'Transport Planning, Auditing and Mapping: Student Experiences and Reflections on a 10-W
- Placement with Fearless Youth Association
- Placement with Integrated Transport Planning (ITP)
- Placement with Nottinghamshire County Council Flood Risk Management Team
- Placement with UoN Manuscripts and Special Collections
- Placement with Vanclaron CHATS CIC
- Politics Placements Module internship at Ditchley Foundation
- Pro Bono Society – Access to Justice (A2J)
- Pro Bono Society – Amicus Project
- Pro Bono Society – Aspire Project
- Pro Bono Society - OutLaw Project
- Raleigh International
- Reflections on an internship as Events Manager for a local NGO in Chengdu province, China
- Research Internship with Data Driven Discovery Initiative (3Di)
- Research Placement at Enodo Economics
- Research Project Manager - Chloe Havez – Mojatu Foundation & Pathway Housing Solutions.
- Rosie May Foundation Internship reflections... blog and a video
- Rozelin Pehlivan – Nottingham Girl’s High School
- Sara Kage – Action Tutoring
- Sofia Solanki – Law in Practice Module Placement
- Tips on DBS checks for my placement working with young adults at Phoenix Aspirational Learning
- Tunde Henz – University of Nottingham Sport