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Get involved
•Enhance your CV with volunteering
When you’re applying for jobs – whether it’s your dream graduate job, a summer placement or a part-time job to keep the cash flowing – employers look for a range of skills and experience that make you employable.
Your studies
•Starting a Research degree– Helping you manage the step up!
It's important to get the best possible start to your research degree – from developing an effective relationship with your supervisor to planning your work, and managing your time, it can be a big adjustment. Here are some things to think about as you begin your research journey.
•Postgraduate study – Helping you manage the step up!
Joining the University as a postgraduate, you may have found that the jump between undergrad and postgrad expectations can be quite big. We guide you through this shift and how to make sure you do your best.
Get involved
•Calling all passionate researchers to engage with local secondary schools!
Are you interested in taking your research into the classroom and developing your outreach skills? Then get involved in our one day, interactive workshop which explores the why, what and how of engaging with secondary schools.
Your studies
•What to expect when you’re in final year
You’re in the last year of your degree! Can you believe how quickly it’s gone by? For most of you, this will be the most heavily weighted year of your programme thus far and talk quickly turns to dissertations and long essays. Understandably this can seem a daunting prospect but fear not, we have plenty of resources for you so you’re prepped and ready to take on the challenges of final year.
•Managing the step up - you are not a first year anymore!
The most over-used phrase of the first year of your undergraduate degree was probably ‘it doesn’t count anyway’ followed closely by friendly non-advice that ‘all you have to do is pass.’ You’re no longer a First Year and these so-called rules don’t seem to apply anymore.
•Studying independently and writing assignments
Are you starting your first uni essay title and scratching your head? Sigh no more, we have all the resources you need to help you achieve your best without losing yourself to a Netflix-induced sleep coma.
University update
•Student system downtime on My Manchester this weekend
An upgrade on My Manchester is due to take place this weekend, meaning some services will be unavailable from 4pm Friday to 9am Monday.
Get involved
•Get involved in World Mental Health Day today!
For #WMHD16, there is so much going on around campus to spread the word and raise awareness of mental health. Let’s get people talking and encourage positive action about wellbeing issues which affect so many of us but aren’t necessarily spoken about as much as they should be.
•Make a difference as a Sports Volunteer
You don’t have to be sporty to volunteer in sport - It is about making sport happen and helping others to achieve