Placements and work experience

We encourage you to undertake a work placement as part of your degree.

You will have the opportunity to take part in short and long work placements. These support you in developing your employability skills and prepare you for future employment. Other benefits to pursuing a placement or work experience include:

Applying theory to practice
Exploring a potential future career path
Learning and experiencing first-hand the professional environment
Learning additional skills and knowledge from industry professionals

We will also support you in sourcing your own work placements outside of the options below.

Year-long work placement

You can complete a four-year degree and your work placement will take place in your third year. The work placement can take place inside or outside the UK.

Short work placement

As part of the Certificate of Professional Communication, you will undertake a four-week work placement during the summer.

https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/schoolforcross-facultystudies/certificates/professionalcommunication

Your career

As a GSD graduate, you have a wide range of career pathways available to you. This is demonstrated by the variety of work placements that our students have completed.

GSD students have secured work placements with employers from the private, public, and third sectors. These include (but are not limited to):

Research institutions
Governmental bodies
Non-governmental organisations
Intelligence agencies
Housing
Environmental consultancies

They have undertaken diverse roles such as:

Marketing Assistant
Sustainability Officer
Intelligence Analyst
Researcher

GSD is also partnered with the Institute of Environmental Management and Assessment (IEMA), a global professional body for individuals and organisations working, studying or interested in the environment and sustainability. All GSD graduates are automatically eligible for IEMA membership.

Transferable skills

You will learn valuable transferable skills that will help you grow your employment prospects, including:

Analysing and problem solving: Through your study of sustainable development principles and models, you will learn how to extract the essential features of complex systems, providing useable frameworks for evaluation
Critical thinking: You will assess arguments, make judgements, formulate reasoned debates and generate feasible solutions
Communication: You will develop advanced communication skills that enable you to connect with a variety of audiences and in different settings
Research: You will undertake an integrated programme of research skills training; teaching you how to source, evaluate and use different forms of information and data
Organisation: Through a rigorous assessment schedule and a compulsory dissertation module in your final year, you will learn the essentials of time management, prioritisation and how to be well organised
Collaboration: You will be presented with several opportunities to work with others and nurture your emotional intelligence, whilst developing a professional attitude suitable for the workplace

Helping you find the right career

We have a dedicated Employability and Placement Manager who will provide you with one-to-one careers guidance. They work in collaboration with employers, so you will be supported in securing appropriate work placements. You will have access to specialist pre-placement advice, guidance and preparation, as well as on-going support during your placement.

You will also have access to the University’s Student Opportunity resources (including careers counselling, employment advice, and job fairs).

Find out more about careers support at Warwick.

https://warwick.ac.uk/services/careers/careers_skills

Global Sustainable Development

Do you agree that humanity has reached a point where passivity is no longer an option? Our unique Global Sustainable Development (GSD) degrees allow you to explore ethically and morally complex areas in seeking to find positive interventions with a beneficial impact. Don't worry about the future. Change it.

Get to know GSD better by exploring our departmental website

https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/schoolforcross-facultystudies/gsd/

Our courses

Global Sustainable Development (BASc)
Design and Global Sustainable Development (BASc)
Global Sustainable Development and Business Studies (BASc)
Economic Studies and Global Sustainable Development (BASc)
Education Studies and Global Sustainable Development (BASc)
Hispanic Studies and Global Sustainable Development (BASc)
History and Global Sustainable Development (BASc)
Life Sciences and Global Sustainable Development (BASc)
Philosophy and Global Sustainable Development (BASc)
Politics, International Studies and Global Sustainable Development (BASc)
Psychology and Global Sustainable Development (BASc)
Sociology and Global Sustainable Development (BASc)
Theatre and Performance Studies and Global Sustainable Development (BASc)

Related degrees

Biological Sciences (BSc)
Economics (BSc)
Education (BA)
Hispanic Studies (BA)
History (BA)
Liberal Arts (BA)
Philosophy (BA)
Politics and International Studies (BA)
Psychology (BSc)
Sociology (BA)
Theatre and Performance Studies (BA)

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