Historians in the Workplace

Dr. Richard Hawkins of SLSSC’s Department of History, Politics and War received a £23,000 grant from the Higher Education Academy earlier this year to research student reflection on their history work placements. Harvey Woolf, who is an Associate of ILE, is the project’s consultant. 

The output of the project will be an online toolkit to assist students with their work placement reflection and related reflective writing. 

Hawkins and Woolf are also organising a related Higher Education Academy sponsored workshop on history work placements which will take place at the Wolverhampton Science Park on 9 May. The workshop has proved very popular. As many as 40 delegates from a wide variety of HEIs across England and Wales will participate in the workshop. The workshop will draw from the different perspectives of academics, placement providers as well as student and graduate experiences. The workshop reflects the important place given to graduate employability at HEIs across the UK.

For more information have a look at the programme of the workshop