We are delighted to be able to offer:

• One year paid placements which lead to a BSc Psychology with Professional Placement degree award

• Optional final year placements available to Level 3 students

Backing up our placement opportunities we proudly offer our unique Insight Programme, our employability programme for Psychology undergraduate students.

The Insight Programme spans our Psychology undergraduate degree. It consists both of elements embedded in our curriculum alongside a series of extra-curricular opportunities such as workshops, workplace visits and Psychology careers events. The Insight Programme seeks to build the experience and confidence of our students. 

If you would like to learn more about the Insight Programme please contact Patricia Murphy patricia.murphy@qub.ac.uk or Elaine Lavery e.lavery@qub.ac.uk

Please note that these placements are only available to current students studying BSc Psychology at Queen's.  We cannot facilitate placement for students at other institutes.

What did the placement student do?

The student on placement within our organisation carried out important research including market research on competitors and on how we could develop our services. I feel this was both valuable for the student to gain this insight into business awareness but this was also valuable to our organisation as this research helped to shape the direction our service has taken.

The placement student fitted very well into the organisation and quickly developed good working relationships with other members of staff, even though she was only in twice a week. They spent a considerable amount of time finding out more about the organisation and in particular about our Childcare services.

Why did they get involved?

We decided to accept the placement for several reasons including; gaining access to talented graduate knowledge that would improve our business; giving a student a chance to gain work experience for their CV; showing a graduate what the insurance industry has to offer; giving something back.  We enjoyed watching a talented individual grow in confidence weekly, being able to support someone and benefiting from the insight their work produced. 

We would 100% recommend other organisations to get involved as we have actionable output to work upon that will massively benefit us as a company in a short period of time at no cost to us as a business beyond a little time spent helping someone else.