Charlotte Medland

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Hello all, I’m Francesca Rock, a second year English literature and French student here at the University of Southampton. At the end of my first year of University I decided I wanted to get more involved with university life and nominated myself as Welfare Officer for the English Society. I won the position in the elections and as a result have had the opportunity to participate in Mission Employable. Continue reading →

Hello everyone! It is fantastic to be back writing another blog for Mission Employable, how time has flown since I was on my internship! It feels like only yesterday that I was working on these excellent initiatives with a fantastic team. My internship experience My internship focused on setting up the Humanities Peer Mentoring Scheme. Continue reading →

Hello Everyone! It has been such a busy and exciting semester for the Mission Employable team! We launched the Peer Mentoring scheme on Monday 22 September with training day for all mentors and mentor officers. The day was run by Verity and myself and included talks by our Students’ Union, Student Services and the Humanities Senior Tutor, so that all mentors knew where to direct their mentees should any problems arise. Continue reading →

Hello Everyone, What a busy few weeks we’ve had in the Mission Employable team! The module is nearly ready to launch, the fantastic BlackBoard site has been created for students by Amber and James, and Verity has chosen her mentors, matched them with their incoming mentees, and planned a training day for the Humanities’ societies Mentor Officers and all the mentors! As well as preparing for my forthcoming role as Peer Mentor Coordinator - which Verity mentioned in her post last week -... Continue reading →

Hello everyone, As you know, the Mission Employable Team are working hard to give Humanities students at the University of Southampton the best possible opportunities to develop their employability skills. One of the main components of these initiatives is to raise students’ awareness of the importance of developing their key employability skills throughout their time at the University. Continue reading →

In my last post I promised to fill you in on what’s happening with the Mission Employable Working Group. The aim of the Working Group is to bring together all the feedback and development ideas for the initiatives that the intern team, the Faculty, and Career Destinations are in the process of building. Continue reading →

Hello everyone, What a busy few weeks it has been! I have been spending a lot of time researching the ways that other UK universities give value to students’ extra-curricular activities through accreditation, certification, or competition. In fact, just today I had an extremely helpful conversation with the University of Nottingham about their Advantage Award – it is wonderful to see so many institutions willing to share their expertise with us. Continue reading →

Hello everyone,   My name is Charlotte Medland and I am a third-year PhD candidate in Modern Languages here at the University of Southampton. During my time in postgraduate study, I have been fortunate enough to teach some of the Humanities undergraduate students, and have been hugely impressed by their hard work, and motivation. Continue reading →