BSc Psychology With

Placement Year
Semester 2 Session
Poll
• What are you looking for?
• How far along are you?
• How confident are you?
 Forensic Psychology Essay 6 Monday 14th March
Interventions in
Mental Health and Poster 7 Monday 21st March
Wellbeing
Recommendations
Forensic Psychology 9 Friday 29th April
Summary
It’s not too
Career Management Career self-efficacy
late! / Short Work and digital capability 10
Tuesday 3rd May (open from
Friday 22nd April)
Placement quiz* (pass/fail)
Career Management
/ Short Work Reflective Blog 11 Wednesday 11th May
But, if not now, Placement
then when? Cognitive
Lab report 12 Monday 16th May
Neuroscience
 What’s your strategy

Two ways to Advertised Speculative/proactive

approach this… opportunities approach
Placement opportunities board Write to/phone organisations
CareerConnect Use personal networks
Other websites (see Search LinkedIn
suggestions on Placement Hub,
or Google ‘placement’ /
‘internship’)
Research Assistant – Mental
Health & Dementia Care (TULIPS)
• Talk, understand, listen for inpatient settings (TULIPS) is a cluster
randomised control trial and is recruiting 34 wards across the UK and
half will receive the intervention and half will continue as treatment as
usual.
• To assist with: data collection, entry and checking
• To support the delivery of Patient & Public Involvement (PPI) activities
– relevant materials to be created and distributed
• To support the qualitative researcher
• To support with blog posts and other similar writing tasks.
• To assist with generic administrative tasks (e.g. tracking participant
recruitment, creating spreadsheets/databases)
Deadline Monday 7th March
Honorary Research Assistant –
GMMH Psychosis Research
Unit
• The research assistant will contribute to various trials within the
research unit
• Advertising research programmes to service users
• Screening patients for eligibility into studies
• Conducting interviews and questionnaires with patient participants
• Coding and entering assessment data
• Creating research materials
• Attending team meetings

Deadline Monday 14th March

Research Assistant LuCiD Child
Study Centre
• The ESRC International Centre for Language and Communicative
Development (LuCiD) is a 5 year research collaboration working
with partners from across the world to transform our
understanding of how children learn to communicate with
language. Applications are invited for three placement
opportunities:
• Comparative words
• Curiosity behaviours
• Shared reading
Deadline Monday 4th April
 Research Assistant – Language
& Communication Difficulties
• Supporting a research project focused on language and communication
difficulties associated with autism.
• developing new study materials including online testing and recruitment protocols
• study advertising, recruiting participants, scheduling meetings and documenting
activities
• collecting data (either face to face or online) with typically developing and clinical
groups (as required)
• assisting with other research tasks; data entry, generating spreadsheets and guided
data analysis
• supporting Patient & Public Involvement (PPI) activities and open access public events
• writing study blogs, contributing to academic papers and conference posters

Deadline to be extended (TBC)

Social Media & Mental Health
Research Assistant - Act4Africa
• Act4Africa is an award-winning charity currently working in
Uganda to support women and girls to thrive independently
through a transformative and holistic approach to health,
education and livelihoods
• Social Media Outreach: join our small but dedicated team in
increasing awareness of the organisation and growing our support
• Research: measuring the impact of our work, finding additional
contextualised psychological support resources, and drafting or
editing materials to be used as part of intervention programmes

Deadline Monday 21st March

City Year UK - Mentoring for
education; leadership
• Mentoring children from disadvantaged communities to
succeed in school
• 1-to-1 mentoring, working with a designated list of pupils
who require more intensive support (when required),
delivering a range of interventions in English and maths
using content provided by the school
• Developing leadership skills to drive transformational change in
local communities
• Developing your career with training, coaching and career
workshops
• Attending external events with our business partners and
influential figures
Deadline 22nd May (but recommend early application)
Marketing Placement (Paid) -
Lynton Lasers Ltd
• Duties include
• Assisting in the design and development of marketing literature,
mail shots, advertisements and online materials.
• Drafting press releases or editorials.
• Assist in planning and executing various forms of market research.
• Organising internal and external events and exhibitions.
• Providing regular reports and data for analysis.
Deadline Monday 7th March
Committee Researcher –
House of Commons (Paid)
• A large part of the work of the House of Commons and the House of
Lords takes place in committees, made up of MPs or Lords. These
committees consider policy issues, scrutinise the work and
expenditure of the government, and examine proposals for primary
and secondary legislation.
• The Select Committee team are looking to recruit 2 undergraduate
students where you will work collaboratively as part of the Committee
team to support the Committee.
• Support includes conducting research and undertaking administrative
and organisational tasks relating to Committee inquiries or other work,
preparing briefing material for the Committee, assisting in drafting
reports for the Committee, and developing your knowledge of certain
subjects covered by the Committee.

Deadline Sunday 13th March

Research Assistant – House of
Commons Social Statistics (Paid)
• The Social and General Statistics Section is one of eight teams the
Research Service of the House of Commons Library which provide
impartial information and analysis to individual Members of
Parliament, their staff and select committees.
• Seeking an undergraduate to work with our Researchers in the section
to produce a wide range of material and other services, including
confidential answers to enquiries from Members of Parliament and
briefings on legislation and topical subjects.
• These longer briefings are made available to MPs and, in most cases,
available on Parliament’s website.
• The work of the sections covers the UK and other countries and is
directly related to the Parliamentary and news agenda.

Deadline Tuesday 15th March

Information Officer (Paid) -
Northern Care Alliance NHS
Group
• The Corporate Information Team is responsible for ensuring that
statutory requirements are met by the Trust, including Cancer Waiting
Times, 18 weeks RTT and A&E Targets.
• The team also deals with a variety of information requests from both
internal and external sources, where you’ll have the opportunity to
learn and develop your coding skills.
• The team produces performance reports for Division and Executive
Committees to reflect compliance against key metrics and highlight
any trends in the data.
• The posts will also support the 1st Line of Support team with various
incidents, queries and requests which will involve liaising with
different teams across the organisation, supporting the wider Business
Intelligence team
Deadline Friday 25th March
Coming Soon – Turning Point
Rotation
• Exciting placement for students interested in working in
substance misuse settings
• Placement students will rotate between four services:
• A community-based integrated service, which is the first port of call
for our service users when they first realise they have a problem with
substances
• A residential detox service (the Smithfield Service)
• Turning point residential rehab facility where clients are referred to
following detox, functioning as an abstinence therapeutic
community
• Crisis Point, a service providing fast, open-access support to
individuals experiencing crisis, and serving (where possible) as an
alternative to hospital
Deadline TBC
Coming Soon – Mustard Tree
• Mustard Tree runs a range of projects, all with the aim of providing
support and working towards long-term solutions for the homeless
and marginalised across Greater Manchester.
• Some projects are focused on improving skills, some on encouraging
social interaction and others that try to tackle some of the personal
root causes of destructive behaviour.

Deadline TBC
Organisation open to
approaches
• MacIntyre Charity: Empowering people with learning
disability www.macintyrecharity.org (school, learning
centre, residential services or community based
opportunities)
• Might be too early for current vacancies, but Catherine Kelly has
said she's open to speculative
approaches (catherine.kelly@macintyrecharity.org)
• Turning Point: Support worker roles https://careers.turning-
point.co.uk/
• Again, might be too early for current vacancies but we could put you
in touch with our contact
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Questions
• How to approach smaller companies/businesses that don't have
an application process/advertise placements
• If I have a study abroad place arranged should I still
continue with placement seeking as a back up? What should I tell
interviewers that would keep them both interested whilst not taking
others' opportunities away?
• Are there any equality, diversity and inclusion roles/placements
for organisations in Manchester you could recommend reaching out to?
• When is the deadline for securing a placement?
• What's the process if we happen to find a placement outside of the
academic year?