Volunteering

How did the OYW Bath Committee overcome the pandemic and reinvent the annual caucus?                                   This year, as for many aspects of our student...

Hi, my name is Sarah and I’m a third year psychology placement student. For my placement I’ve ended up travelling to the coastal, rainy region of Dublin to work in a homeless hostel. Though my placement choice may come across...

On the 21st October at midnight Dublin entered a Level 5 lockdown. This lockdown meant that all non-essential businesses (including clothes shops) shut, restaurants could only offer take-aways and individuals were restricted from moving beyond a 5km radius of their...

Placement Advice to a Gold Scholar: On a lot of people’s minds this year- placement hunting! Getting placements can be a challenging time. It’s likely to be your first set of applications to industry specific jobs, so there is a...

Hi, my name is Sarah and I’m a 3rd year Psychology student currently on placement in Dublin. This is my very first post, and so to begin with I would like to pitch to you why I believe it is...

When I heard about the Gold Scholarship Programme Opportunities Fund*, I was determined to make the most out of this opportunity and began to look into some career development events that I wouldn’t usually be able to attend. I had...

Welcome to my placement blog where I will provide monthly updates, sharing my own experience of securing a placement and the work itself. I’m a Politics and International Relations student with my two placements being at Camp Takodah through Camp America...