Testimonials
Work experience bursaries can be used to cover travel, accommodation and dependent care costs for a whole host of career-related opportunities. Find out how some of our previous recipients used their bursary to gain vital work experience, enhance their employability and expand their professional networks.
- Eleanor Eckersley 3rd year Social Anthropology student who is working part time as an ambassador at the University of Manchester alongside her studies.
- Maurvine Ngunda Ossumani 2nd year Planning and Real Estate student and M10/10 Black Leadership Programme member who gained first hand insight into the quantity surveying industry.
- Caitlyn Hawley 2nd year Law student who completed a Winter Law School with the European Law Students’ Association in Turkey on energy and sustainability law.
- Aavash Subedi 1st year Physics student, secured an internship researching magnetic spectroscopy.
- Alannah Williams 4th year Earth and Planetary Sciences student, giving presentations, working with new people, skills learnt from working at the European Space Industry in Madrid.
- Emily Na 4th year MEng Materials Science and Engineering student who gained great time management & project planning skills for Proctor and Gamble in Reading.
- Josiah Edebiri 4th year Electrical and Electronic Engineering student who worked at Rolls Royce gaining experience working with world renown power electronics engineers
- Erin-Lily Horsfield 1st year Chemistry student, spent 12 weeks working with Adelphi Values Prove deepening her understanding of the pharmaceutical industry.
- Nate Alcala 3rd year LLB Law student who completed a vacation scheme internship at Slaughter and May, a commercial law firm in London.
- Zsófi Kutasi 2nd year Environmental Management student completed a 10 week summer internship at a Risk Management Consultancy based in Chester, which she found the work experience rewarding and helps her choose a future pathway.
- Muhammad Younas Mahmood 2nd year Civil Engineering student, who used his bursary to experience what it was like to work within the rail industry.