Placements

PV Ecology are offering 4-5 week work placements between July and September around Romsey. Duties will involve assisting the existing ecology team with a range of field-based and office-based surveys and research including: protected species surveys; phase 1 habitat assessments; professional report writing; habitat map production. Please contact me for more details, or send me […]

2nd years – the Game & Wildlife Conservation Trust’s sandwich placements are now open for applications. Several of you have previously as me about these placements. There are 9 placement opportunities in 6 departments: Geographical Information Science (GIS) and Predation Research (2 placements) Farmland Ecology Unit (FEU) (2 placements) Lowland Game & Wildlife Research (LGR) […]

Hampshire & Isle of Wight Wildlife Trust – paid internships 4 placements (2 projects) are currently being advertised on the Excel placements page, under “Engineering & Scientific”. This is the 5th year that we have run these internships with external partners (the city council placement’s deadline was a few weeks ago, shortlisted candidates will be […]

Summer internship with Ordnance survey Career Destinations has just learned that Ordnance Survey want to recruit first and second year students across six different internship programmes, including HR, Marketing and Operations. The closing date is 17th May. Further details online: http://www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/oswebsite/news/2013/04/ordnance-survey-launches-summer-internships-programme.html.

Excel placement Our summer placement with Southampton City Council, investigating the bats on Southampton Common, is currently being advertised here http://www.southampton.ac.uk/careers/employability/workexperience/excel_uk.html under “Engineering and Scientific” with job title “Ecologist Researcher”. The placement will be paid and is part-time for 12 weeks over the summer. Our local partners really want students with experience of a final […]

2nd years – The Game & Wildlife Conservation Trust are still advertising their year-out placement opportunities.http://www.gwct.org.uk/about_us/job_vacancies/default.asp Placements are paid and in a variety of locations in the UK. Michael Hockey is currently on a placement year with them and couldn’t recommend it highly enough. Please get in contact with me if you would like more details.

2nd years have you considered a sandwich year? The Game & Wildlife Conservation Trust are currently advertising 7 placements: Geographical Information Science (GIS) and Grey Partridge Research (2 placements) Farmland Ecology Unit (FEU) Lowland Game & Wildlife Research (LGR) Upland Research Unit, Drumochter, Inverness-shire Upland Research Unit, North Pennines Wetland Research   Michael Hockey applied last year and […]

Sandwich year This year 3 current students are undertaking sandwich years between their 2nd and 3rd years, with: Kew Gardens; Game & Wildlife Conservation Trust; Hampshire Ecological Services. Watch this space for more information on how you can apply.

2nd years – The Game & Wildlife Conservation Trust are still advertising their year-out placement opportunities. http://www.gwct.org.uk/about_us/job_vacancies/default.asp Placements are paid and in a variety of locations in the UK. Michael Hockey is currently on a placement year with them and couldn’t recommend it highly enough. Please get in contact with me if you would like […]