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Beyond LEC Skills Award

The Beyond LEC Skills Award provides you with an opportunity to develop your key skills and relevant experience beyond your degree subject.

These volunteering roles and paid internship opportunities are a great way to learn more about the sector you want to work in after you graduate, whilst strengthening your CV and enhancing your employment prospects.

We have teamed up with local and national organisations and with researchers here at Lancaster to provide you with opportunities to put your skills into practice out in the field.

Browse the latest volunteering and internship opportunities at our Science & Technology Opportunities Portal.

Current Opportunities

Why volunteer?

  • Gain new skills, knowledge and experience to enhance your employability
  • Become better informed about the suitability of different career paths
  • Expand your network of careers contacts
  • Volunteering opportunities can contribute to the Lancaster Award.

How the scheme works

  • Volunteering or Internship

    You must complete a minimum of 20 hours volunteering or a 100 hour internship, but many opportunities will allow you to work for longer. Students should not volunteer or undertake an internship for more than 4 hours per week in term time.

  • Assignment

    The Beyond LEC Skills reflective assignment is completed to help you to reflect on what you have gained through your volunteering or internship. You will be asked to identify additional skills that you may want to develop and to create an action plan for achieving this.

  • Certificate

    If you complete each aspect of the Award you will receive a certificate of completion, and the Beyond LEC Skills Award will be added to your extra-curricular achievements record.

Off-Campus Opportunities

Organisations with a specific need for Lancaster students include

  • Piccadilly Support Services, Lancaster– a horticultural work party
  • Fork-to-Fork
  • Lancaster Wildlife Trust
  • Lancashire Fylde Council: Fylde Sand Dunes Project
  • Ribble Rivers Trust

Full details of these opportunities will be on the Science & Technology Opportunities Portal.

On-Campus Opportunities

Other Opportunities

The following organisations have volunteering opportunities that may be of interest to you:

Contact

To find out more about the Employability Programme and how to apply, please contact Duncan Whyatt.

Duncan Whyatt

Professor Duncan Whyatt

Professor

Centre for Global Eco-innovation , Energy Lancaster, Geospatial Data Science, Improving global stewardship, Innovation for a better environment, Lancaster Intelligent, Robotic and Autonomous Systems Centre, LIRA - Environmental Modelling, Understanding a changing planet