The Professional Training Placement Experience

Follow our current students through their Professional Training placements.

My placement year as a consultant working in Porto, Portugal

I am an English Literature student at Surrey, currently doing a placement year before I go into my fourth and final year of studying. As of right now, I am a trainee consultant at SPI (SPI – Sociedade Portuguesa de Inovação) in Porto, Portugal. I was fortunate enough to find my placement through a family […]


FreedomFit February Update 2022

Hello, I’m Sofia, one of the PTY Enterprise Pathway students, and the founder of the nutrition and fitness company, FreedomFit. I am aiming to build a community where I bring together registered nutritionists and personal trainers, with the goal of helping young adults build a healthy relationship with both food and exercise and become better educated […]


Pastry Puffs January Blog

Hi, I’m Lewis a student on the student enterprise PTY scheme currently running an events catering company called Pastry Puffs, we serve a fried pastry dessert and can be found outside the student’s union most Thursdays. January was a frustrating month; I came back to Guildford well rested, and my motivation restored from taking a […]


Start of the New Year… Reflection and Implementation – Kabloomz

This months Challenge   This month has been both memorable and unpredictable, as putting forward your creation to the world can be a challenging step to take for any entrepreneur. Especially when you have been putting in months of research as well as making constant iterations to the product, there is a considerable level of emotional investment […]


My tips for securing a placement

Hi, my name is Elina Riznic and I am studying for my Bachelor’s Degree in International Tourism Management. Currently, I am on my placement year working for CERN (the European Organization for Nuclear Research) in the International Relations department. I will be blogging for the University through my placement year and my first blog is […]


My Placement at Cancer Research UK

My name is Caitlin and I am a 2nd-year Biomedical Sciences student, currently on placement at Cancer Research UK, working as a Student Clinical Study Coordinator. I work in a department known as the CDD (Centre for Drug Development). The CDD is responsible for early phase cancer drug development. Clinical Study Coordinators are assigned clinical […]


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