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SHU Enterprise
Sheffield Hallam University Enterprise Team
Sandwich Year Placement Programmes with the Enterprise Team
APPLICATIONS ARE NOW CLOSED FOR 2021/22
Sandwich year placements
New Freelancer placement
Applicable to all sandwich year students
- September start
- £1200 fee for the year (total tuition fee - standard tuition fees do not apply for sandwich year placements)
- For undergraduates and postgraduates with a sandwich year option
- Applications primarily focus on your enthusiasm and commitment
- Based in the Hallam i-Lab with free tenancy
- 30 hours per week commitment (3 day equivalent)
- Work part-time alongside the placement
- Fully supported by the Enterprise Team
- Regular appointments with our Enterprise Advisers and Start-up Adviser
- Access to all workshops
- Network opportunities
The Applied Professional Diploma is now included as standard with all placements!
Work for Yourself
This is a 48 week self-directed placement, supported by the Hallam Enterprise Team.
You can apply as an individual, partnership or in a group of up to 5. It will give you the opportunity to kickstart your venture and test out the market.
Take your ideas as far as you want to. You don’t need a business plan prior to enrolling.
All you need is an idea that you are passionate about, plenty of enthusiasm and commitment. Your idea may change, and you may not have a business at the end of the process but the focus is on your self-development and the knowledge and experience that you learn throughout the process.
Questions? Contact us here.
Online Magazine
This is a 48 week self-directed placement, supported by the Hallam Enterprise Team.
This placement will give you the opportunity to shape the future of your own magazine, take ownership and develop it in your own way.
This academic year saw the first team of three students pioneer The Student Aspect online magazine. The team have complete ownership and can continue to develop the publication into final year and beyond, if they so choose.
Key areas you will work across (in a team of up to 5): research and development; search engine optimisation; website management; writing and editing; guest writer management; social media strategy.
Questions? Contact us here.
Hallam Pop-Up Shop
This is a 48 week self-directed placement, supported by the Hallam Enterprise Team.
The Hallam Pop-Up Shop is located on Howard Street, opposite the main Owen Building Entrance. Each year we recruit a team of up to 5 students to manage the Hallam Pop-up Shop as their own business venture for the duration of their sandwich year placement.
As a member of the management team you will responsible for coordinating the pop-up shop bookings and the shop’s social media and marketing strategy.
You will also have the opportunity of planning and hosting key themed events of your choosing, over the course of your sandwich year placement.
Questions? Contact us here.
Innovate. Create. Develop
This is a 48 week self-directed placement, supported by the Hallam Enterprise Team.
Do you want to tackle an issue that you are passionate about? Do you want to create change and have a positive impact on the lives of other people?
You will work in multi-disciplinary teams of up to 5 individuals to work on a variety projects that will focus on delivering a meaningful social or environmental impact on people’s lives. Your project could be concept only or, ideally, something that you can take to market. The projects will come under one of 4 key themes:
– Education
– Health
– Equality
– Environmental
Questions? Contact us here.
Freelancer
This sandwich year option is only open to Art & Design / Media Arts & Communication students.
This 48 week flexible sandwich year placement gives you the opportunity to combine paid work from an employer-based placement alongside time spent developing yourself as a freelancer, supported by the Enterprise Team, to advance your longer term career ambitions and build up a stellar portfolio.
You will be expected to spend at least 50% of your time on freelance-based work, whether that is developing your style and your portfolio or taking on freelance work. You decide how you allocate your time across the 48 weeks.
This may be for you if you:
Like the idea of a sandwich placement year that is very flexible.
Want to take responsibility for yourself and proactively find work that you are interested in.
Want to work on different pieces of work with a number of clients
Want to build a portfolio of experience and project outcomes
Questions? Contact us here.