The Professional Training Placement Experience

Follow our current students through their Professional Training placements.

My first 6 months as an Intern for RSSL

Hi all! My name is Jack, I’m a chemistry student currently on placement at Reading Scientific Services Limited (RSSL) as a food, pharmaceuticals and investigative analysis intern. I started my placement just over 6 months ago and my time has flown by! I thought it would be good to share what my experience has been like so far.


My Placement Year in a Biomed laboratory

Hi there, my name is Hannah 😊, and I am a Biological Sciences student. I am currently on placement as a Medical Laboratory Assistant at Eurofins County Pathology, Guildford. I must admit I didn’t go out looking for a laboratory placement, but I am glad this is where I ended up! When I started my […]


A Placement & A Pandemic: the first 6 months of my Environmental Psychology placement year.

What is Environmental Psychology? For those of you that don’t know, Environmental Psychology is all about how we as humans interact with our physical environment, including both how the environment can impact us, such as natures’ influences on our wellbeing, but also how we can impact the environment and how this can be changed, for […]


‘Help I’ve broken it again’ and other stories from my Year In Industry so far (part 2)

Hi, me again! I’m back with part 2 of my blog. This time, after about 6 months on placement, I’m talking to you about being successful and making the most of your placement. This blog is adapted from my larger piece here. Be confident Even if you’re not, pretend you are. Most of the time […]


‘Help I’ve broken it again’ and other stories from my Year In Industry so far (part 1)

Hi there, I’m Tudor 👋. I’m currently doing a Year in Industry placement at Kaluza (part of the OVO group) as a software engineer. I’m coming up to the halfway-point of my year, so I figured it would be a good time to dish out some advice! Before I start, this is adapted from a […]


Six Months at Yakult & 3 Reasons Why I Think my Placement Year has been Valuable

Hey everyone, Raff here again! If you aren’t familiar with who I am, I am a Nutrition student on placement at Yakult UK and Ireland. Firstly, Happy New Year! Saying this makes me realise that my first six months of placement is complete… and has gone by in a flash! Since my very first day, […]


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