“Volunteering allowed me to better understand the lived experiences of refugees.”
Students from across our health courses travelled to Greece to support ‘Movement on the Ground’, a programme that supports refugee children, adults, and families.
'Working in a billion dollar company, the opportunities were endless.'
Food and nutrition student Emma Taylor spent her placement year developing new food products for PepsiCo International.
'I worked with lots of major fashion brands.'
In 2020, fashion student Vick Batey won the national Fashion Concept Award at Graduate Fashion Week. She also graduated with a first-class degree.
'I did a nine-month placement in a hotel in the USA.'
International hospitality and business management student Amy Scott travelled to Colorado in the USA to spend nine months working for the famous Stanley Hotel.
'I rebranded a radio station on my course.'
While he was studying Digital Media Production, Ehsan Habib was taken on by local community radio station Link FM 96.7 as a volunteer graphic designer.
'I pitched a digital PR campaign to an agency for one of their clients.'
BA Marketing, Communications and Advertising graduate Ella won a competition ran by the University's marketing society to pitch a PR campaign to creative agency, Rise at Seven
'My course helped me to create software for breakdancing competitions.'
As part of his computer science for games course, Torrell Ewan developed a piece of software to help run breakdancing competitions. It was so successful that, with the help of our Enterprise Team, Torrell turned his idea into his own business, Woosh (wooshcms.com).
'I designed a dress which was worn by international music star Ellie Goulding'
After finishing her final year studying a degree in BA Fashion, fashion designer Olivia Creighton has not only won best digital portfolio at Graduate Fashion Week but one of her designs was personally selected by International Music Star Ellie Goulding to wear at the Cartier Queen’s Cup Final.
'Talking about body image in schools is really rewarding.'
Inspirational student story about Sheffield Hallam University graduate Laura Tarry, student ambassador