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Student Placements and Projects

Gain experience and apply your learning to real-world contexts

Placements (in curriculum)

A placement can help you develop a critical understanding of key concepts and reflect on your own learning. Placements bridge the gap between your academic learning and the ‘real world’ of work. You’ll have the chance to engage with jobs, processes and issues you wouldn’t always experience at University, gaining a range of additional skills and knowledge.
 
Placements are in curriculum and will count towards your final degree and are therefore unpaid.

What’s involved?

If you choose to apply for an optional 20-credit placement unit in your second year, we will work to find you a placement that most closely matches the organisation or sector you are interested in and the skills you’d like to develop.

You will complete 80 hours at your placement either onsite or remotely, or a blend of the two, usually once a week for 10-12 weeks between November and April. 

Your placement hours will make up a part of your teaching hours for the unit, as well as some lectures, seminars and tutorials. You will also need to submit a reflective report on your experience and other assessments which differ between each unit.

Eligibility

Placement units are currently available to second-year undergraduate students in the following schools.

School of Education:

School of Management:

School of Policy Studies:

Management Consultancy Unit (in curriculum)

The Management Consultancy unit provides a great opportunity to learn about consultancy research and see how your academic studies can be brought to life in a real-world setting through the completion of a group consultancy project. 

How a project can benefit you

Develop a critical understanding of academic research and the world of work, helping you to understand key concepts, reflect upon your own learning and employability, and gain a range of relevant skills and experience.

Eligibility

This is an optional unit open to third year students. Please see unit details or download the for further information. 

Accounting or Finance Professional Placement Year (in curriculum)

If you are studying BSc Accounting and Finance, BSc Economics and Accounting or BSc Accounting and Management, you may be eligible to apply for an additional placement year in industry.

A professional placement provides a great opportunity for you to see how your academic studies can be brought to life in a real-world setting. You will develop an understanding of how an organisation operates and learn to take on responsibility within a team. 

This course is available by transfer rather than by direct entry. Placement opportunities are based on first-year examination results and a successful application to a participating employer.

Find out more

 

Get in touch

Placements - Claire Horton, Professional Liaison Administrator
Management Consultancy Unit - Alma Neu, Professional Liaison Administrator

fssl-pln@bristol.ac.uk

The placement gave me real-life experience of working with offenders and I made connections with various practitioners who proved helpful in facilitating my dissertation. As my dissertation was based around the effectiveness of domestic abuse group intervention programmes, this placement helped me source participants willing to take part in my research.

Jess Symons (bsc criminology)

By undertaking this placement, I was not only able to improve my knowledge of Marketing by applying it to a real life context, but also able to build employability related skills such as networking and communication. When applying to summer internships, I was able to call upon concrete examples from the placement in order to demonstrate the skills that employers were looking for - I felt this really helped during the application process.

Charlie Godwin-Brown (bsc management)

See how our Placements can help you connect your learning to real world scenarios.

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