Our events
We offer a range of projects and event, some of which are open to any students, others offered to specific groups (for example of funded by alumni gifts). Below gives you some brief details of our main projects, but see our Google site for more information if you're a current student.
- Employability as part of your course
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We work with your department to embed skills/learning into courses. Our team works across the Faculty and with stakeholders to develop a curriculum that enhances skills, attributes and abilities to secure the outcomes you seek and manage your onward careers with confidence. We help to align programme and curriculum developments with the changing employment landscape.
- Workplace Insights - Easter Internship programme
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Our short-term Internship programme enabling our students to make a real contribution to a business, charity or public sector organisation. On Workplace Insights (WI), students work on a project submitted by a partner organisation - one of our trusted and respected student employers - over the course of two weeks to gain work experience. Students will complete the project during the Easter vacation period, supported by a bursary payment paid by the Faculty of Social Sciences.
Organisations- Are you interested in hosting a student o complete a project for you during the Easter Vacation? Click here for further information including example of previous projects, or email t.horton@sheffield.ac.uk.
Internships are a great way to benefit your organisation whilst supporting students to develop their skills - see this case study as an example.
- City Connections - Business and networking visits in London and Manchester
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Students networking at London City Connections City Connections is an event designed to support students from under-represented backgrounds to develop their networking and communication skills, commercial awareness and enhance their career prospects. The project provides students with the opportunity to build connections with alumni of the University of Sheffield who have reached senior positions in major organisations, and who generously give their time to support the project. Students taking part gain an insight into a wide range of career sectors and hear first-hand from alumni how they have got to where they are today. Click here for further information and details of previous visits.
- Coach Cafe Networking Events
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Coach Cafe is a series of online networking events that enable students to connect with alumni in a range of professions. Events will be advertised on Career Connect. To see dates/themes as advertised to alumni, see this link https://www.sheffield.ac.uk/alumni/coach-cafe
- Business and Industry Challenge days
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Challenge days are a opportunity to work with a business to develop your skills and understanding of a particular sector through team challenges and 'taster' workshops. In the past we’ve ran themed events that have included 'Marketing' and ‘Policy’.
Are you a current student? for more information about forthcoming events visit our google site.
Policy Industry Challenge - The Faculty of Social Sciences runs a Policy Challenge Day with Sheffield's own Department of Work and Pensions (DWP).
Students gain practical experience of real-world policy decision-making and insights into careers across a range of Government departments including Education, Health, and Justice.
The challenge involves students working in small groups while representing Government departments in a bid to win funding from the "Chancellor". Groups are encouraged to agree cross-departmental bids and proposals are presented to the "Chancellor" who allocated funding to the winning bids.
When a student was asked about the highlight of the event:
Collaborating with individuals from different backgrounds to collectively decide and evaluate effective policy decisions and their impact on the specific department and also wide reaching impact on the lives of ordinary individuals.
Sana Khan
A first year Economics student
Marketing Industry Challenge with Pricecheck
Pricecheck are a global wholesaler and distributor and are located locally here in Sheffield! They work closely with many recognisable brands such as L’Oreal, Adidas, and Disney.
Marketing is much much more than advertisement and you may already have the transferable skills needed in this industry such as creativity and problem solving! Most marketing roles are available for students from any discipline.
When a student was asked about the highlight of this event:
The Marketing Challenge was a fun and insightful workshop, reflecting the brainstorming and planning stages of a real-life marketing campaign. It also gave me the opportunity to network with the Pricecheck team and learn about their placement offerings. After connecting with the Head of Marketing and the Recruitment and Engagement Advisor, I went on to secure a marketing placement with them. The Marketing Challenge allowed me to demonstrate my passion for marketing and willingness to learn, which penultimately led to my successful application
Jessica Fitz-John
SUMS student who attended the Challenge day in Year 2 and then secured a placement year with Pricecheck
The Pegasus Challenge
This event was planned as a response to student requests for interdisciplinary events relating to the built environment. Pegasus as a planning agency were keen to engage and developed a one-day simulation activity based on a live regeneration project. Students took on roles as planners, architects, landscape architects, economists and journalists and worked together on their Master Plans, presenting ideas to a panel of Pegasus colleagues at the end of the day.
When a student was asked "what did you enjoy about this event?"
Discussing as a team on the strategies we wanted to employ on site. Brainstorming with people from different disciplines helps in thinking about multiple perspectives that need to be considered for a project which I wouldn’t have done in my design modules
University of Sheffield Planning student
