History at Queen’s University Belfast: preparing students for employment.
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History at Queen’s University Belfast:
preparing students for employment
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Introduction
• We do not just produce history teachers
• 60% of graduate employers take on History students
• This presentation indicates the diverse careers our graduates pursue and explains our skills and employability centred focus
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The History graduate’s skills• Research• Communication• Independent working• Analysis• Evaluation• Synthesising arguments• Empathy with the views
of others• Time management• Self-evaluation• Group working• Professional presentation
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Level One – Nurturing Skills
Example module: History and Historians
• Historical truth, ‘contested pasts’, public history• Fieldtrips, and presentations from media experts
Assessment Methods • Tutorial Journal (40%)• Assessed essay (15%)• Public history group-project proposal (30%)• Group presentation (15%)
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Level Two – enhancing skills
Example module: History and Society
• Explores relationship between academic and public history
• Students prepare group project on plan for new museum or heritage centre
• Plan includes financial budget and marketing as well as historical content.
• Students advised by QUB School of Management, Career Guidance staff and member of staff from the Heritage Lottery Fund.
• Assessment: Individual bibliographic essay (30%), group presentation (25%), individual report (20%) participation in online group discussions (25%)
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Level Two – enhancing skills
Example module: Recording History
• Students take part in oral history project
• Complete professional and accurate recordings and transcripts
• Analyse material and ‘pitch’ programme ideas to BBC Radio Ulster
• BBC (and students) convert strong ideas into radio programme
• Assessment by interview transcript (20%); critical commentary on interview (20%); project report (50%); group ‘pitch’ to BBC (10%)
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Level 3 – Independence, imagination and quality
Example moduleThe dissertation
• Independent research to produce 10,000 – 12,000 words• Individually negotiated topic with a supervisor • Analyse primary sources • Synthesis secondary sources and their arguments• Draft chapters, receive feedback, reflect, revise and improve• Completes undergraduate training as a historian • Develop skills of independent research, time management, extended
writing, production of timely and professional writing
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Stretching ambition and broadening horizons
• Degree Plus (directed pathways for acquisition of additional skills and experiences).
• Short internships at Lincoln Presidential Museum in Illinois
• Opportunities to spend a semester abroad with one of our numerous Erasmus partners (e.g. Amsterdam, Athens Berlin, Venice)
• Workshops led by alumni offering current undergraduates the benefit of their knowledge
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Overall aims
• Our curriculum is designed to enhance student skills and employability
• It provides teaching experiences and assessment methods that enable students to create an impressive narrative on their CVs and in job interviews
• They are able to provide evidence of their transferable skills.
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Recent graduate career destinations
• Peter Coulter, BBC (pictured)• Sean Sorohan, Senior
Associate: PWC• Neil Halliday, Manager: Action
Renewables• Jane Brown, Management
Trainee: Boots• Leigh Egerton (pictured),
Policy Officer: Department for International Development
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More recent graduates
• Chris Perry (pictured), Project Manager at NI Housing Executive
• Rachel Telfer, Graduate Trainee (Library), Lincolns Inn
• Jacqueline McCarthy (pictured), Marketing and Communications Manager: British Council
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And more
• William Patterson, Manager; Forestry Commission
• Neal Gartland, Research and Policy Officer: UUP
• Will Wyeth (pictured), Heritage Education Trainee: Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments
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And more
• Ashleigh Simpson (pictured), Public Affairs: Royal College of General Practitioners
• James Gore, Manager: Aldi
• Cheryl Tracey, Teacher, Liverpool
• Raymond Johnston, Solicitor: Edwards & Co.
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And more
• Shane Quinn, Development Officer: Belfast Buildings Preservation Trust
• Ian Hunter (pictured with Professor David Hayton), Business Development Manager: Invest Northern Ireland (San Jose office)
• Alex McCabe, Graduate Trainee: Linklaters, London
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And more
• Monique Geddis (pictured), Banking Administrator: First Trust Bank (currently studying for a Graduate Diploma in Accounting)
• Emily Anderson, Trainee Executive: Lanson’s Communications (London PR company)