ERIC Number: EJ1257757
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2020
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Final Year Research Project as a Tool for Maximising Students' Employability Prospects
Serbic, Danijela; Bourne, Victoria
Psychology Teaching Review, v26 n1 p90-95 2020
Embedding employability in higher education is a key Teaching Excellence Framework requirement, and psychology departments across the UK recognise that this is indeed important for students' employability prospects. The Final Year Research Project is the most important independent piece of work that psychology undergraduate students undertake, contributing considerably to the overall degree classification. Therefore, it can provide a fertile ground for embedding employability and allows for innovation in teaching and supervision of projects. Yet, based on our extensive Final Year Research Project supervision and coordination experience, this opportunity tends to be overlooked by psychology departments, project coordinators and supervisors; often resulting in projects being given insufficient attention in students' job and further study applications and interviews. In this practice exchange paper, we first detail how employability is built into Years One and Two of our undergraduate degree, before outlining how it is integrated in Year Three within Final Year Research Projects. We then describe and discuss several initiatives that we developed and implemented to embed employability in Final Year Research Projects. We developed the 3R approach to helping students Recognise and Reflect on their skill development and Relate them to the next step in their career.
Descriptors: Capstone Experiences, Student Research, Student Projects, Career Readiness, Employment Potential, Foreign Countries, Psychology, Transfer of Training, Undergraduate Students, Job Skills, Reflection
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Education Level: Higher Education; Postsecondary Education
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Language: English
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