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Student Success Stories

Every summer, students gain valuable, paid work experience through short-term placements working with organisations and social enterprises throughout Scotland.

Click on the featured stories below to find out more about previous students’ experiences:

  • Holly McDonald

    Holly McDonald

    Sistemic Scotland Ltd

    "I would definitely recommend the programme to other students." Holly McDonald undertook a placement with Sistemic Scotland Ltd over the summer of 2015. Here, she describes her role and the benefits of the programme.

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  • Ryan Sutherland

    Ryan Sutherland

    JGC Engineering and Technical Services Ltd.

    Ryan’s placement directly related to his MEng Electrical and Electronic Engineering and helped to improve his communication skills. He was runner-up at the Summer Placement Finals Day 2013.

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  • Elena Hindinger

    Elena Hindinger

    Hyaltech

    After completing her placement as a R&D Support Scientist at Hyaltech, Elena returned to her degree with new knowledge, passion, and experience. Read about the exciting projects she worked on here...

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  • Jamie on his Student Placement

    Jamie Campbell

    Biopta Ltd

    "The more you put into your placement, the more you will gain out of the overall experience." Read about Jamie's placement experience below.

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  • Liam Rooney Life Sciences Student

    Liam Rooney

    Sartorius Stedim BioOutsource Limited

    As one of the successful candidates of the Life Sciences programme in 2014, Liam shares his placement experience and how this led to more opportunities than he expected.

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  • Natalie Smith at Invereach

    Natalie Smith

    Invereach

    Natalie brought her creativity from a design degree into the business to help promote the SUPER!NATURAL brand. 

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Other success stories

Alex Gilbert and Marc Macleod

Alex Gilbert and Marc Macleod

Greenspace Live Ltd Stornoway

For Alex and Marc, student placements at a company promoting green living were an opportunity to apply their up-to-date university knowledge to an important new proposal.

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Allan MacIntyre

Allan MacIntyre

Albasoft Ltd

A computing student at Strathclyde University, Allan MacIntyre explains how his student summer placement taught him several, very useful new languages.

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Angus Vajk, Picture Credit : Ewen Weatherspoon / HIE

Angus Vajk

Glycomar

A switch of degree meant that Angus Vajk could broaden his skills with a summer placement in his home town of Oban. He explains what happened.

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Christopher Harrigan Photo Student

Chris Harrigan

Thermo Fisher Scientific

Chris spent 11 weeks working in a world-leading Life Sciences company, as part of the CV Competition 2015. Here he explains what projects he got involved in, and how the experience will help shape his future.

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Corrie Green

HexWar Games Ltd

For Corrie, a game and web designer, this student placement was right up his street. 

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Elena Hindinger

Elena Hindinger

Hyaltech

After completing her placement as a R&D Support Scientist at Hyaltech, Elena returned to her degree with new knowledge, passion, and experience. Read about the exciting projects she worked on here...

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George Clayton Student

George Clayton

Exova

George was been offered a nine-month contract with Exova, after successfully completing his paid placement with the company through ScotGrad this summer. He shares his story...

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Holly McDonald

Holly McDonald

Sistemic Scotland Ltd

"I would definitely recommend the programme to other students." Holly McDonald undertook a placement with Sistemic Scotland Ltd over the summer of 2015. Here, she describes her role and the benefits of the programme.

View full story about Holly McDonald