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Careers and Employability Information

The Department of English and Creative Writing is committed to assisting students to realise the benefits of reflecting on and recording learning, developing employment awareness, and engaging in career planning. Year 2 students are encouraged to attend the ‘Beyond Undergraduate English and Creative Writing’ series of events; a 50-minute careers lecture is timetabled for Year 3 students.

The Departmental Careers and Employability Officer

The Departmental Careers and Employability Officer (Terms 1 and 3) is Dr Liz Oakley-Brown. In Terms 1 and 3, she holds a weekly office hour for the discussion of Careers and Employability issues. Please see Liz’s Departmental webpage for further information.

Beyond Undergraduate English and Creative Writing

E.CW 200: BEYOND UNDERGRADUATE ENGLISH and CREATIVE WRITING is a rolling programme of events offered to second-year students in English and Creative Writing. This programme aims to introduce you to and/or enhance your existing knowledge of careers, employability and graduate research possibilities once you complete you degree.

Moodle

Up-to-date information about careers and employability can be found on the dedicated Moodle sites: English Careers and Employability Y2 and English Careers and Employability Y3.

The Careers Hub

The Careers Hub, which is located in the Departmental Mixing Bay, contains information for English and Creative Writing students.

The Lancaster Award:

At Lancaster we not only value your academic accomplishments, but also recognise the importance of those activities you engage with outside your programme of study. The student experience is enhanced by including extra-curricular activities and, with more graduates than ever before and increasing competition for jobs upon leaving University, these are vital to your future prospects. We want to encourage you to make the very most of your University experience and to leave Lancaster as a well-rounded graduate. We have a wealth of opportunities to get involved in with initiatives such as work placements, volunteering, extracurricular courses, societies and sports. The Lancaster Award aims to encourage you to complete such activities, help you to pull them together in one place and then be recognised for your accomplishments.  We want you to stand out from the crowd - the Lancaster Award will help you to do this.

For more information see http://www.lancs.ac.uk/careers/award/

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