School of Business - Work Placements
Department of Business Studies
Programme | Work Placement/Learning Aims/Description | Duration | Dates | Closing Date for submitting placements | Contact Person |
Department of Business Studies | |||||
MSc Marketing Practice | Aims of placement: ? Aimed at providing learners with the experience and discipline of working in a selected business environment and the opportunity to develop skills in particular areas. ? Learners will gain an insight into the wider commercial aspects of business life including the management of the organisation and the client-company relationship. |
1 Semester | Feb - May | Mid- October | James Kearns james.kearns@lyit.ie |
Higher Diploma in Business in Finance and Technology (FinTech) | Aims of placement: ? Provide an opportunity for learners to apply all of their learning in a completly practical way and gain experience in the workplace. ? Develop the learner's awareness of work related issues and professional standards in the business environment. |
4 weeks | May | Mid- October | Patricia Doherty Head of Department patricia.doherty@lyit.ie |
MA in Accounting | Aims of placement: ? Recognise the relationship between Accounting theory and business practice, and enhance the use of accounting knowledge in practice. ? Further develop self-awareness in terms of personal and professional transferable skills, and to provide an underpinning for learners to develop as competent reflective practitioners in industry. |
8 weeks | Summer (dates flexible) | End of Feb | Paul McDevitt Lecturer paul.mcdevitt@lyit.ie |
Bachelor of Business (Hons) LLL | Aims of placement: ? Provide the learner with the opportunity to apply knowledge, skills and competencies acquired from study to a real business environment. |
10 weeks | Summer (dates flexible) | End of Feb | ?? |
Department of Law & Humanities
Programme | Work Placement/Learning Aims/Description | Duration | Dates | Closing Date for submitting placements | Contact Person |
Department of Law & Humanities | |||||
BA (Hons) in Business with Irish or French or Spanish or German | Aims of placement: ? Provide learners with the opportunity to apply their skills and knowledge in a work environment in a country where the target language is spoken. ? Achieve greater competence in that language by using it on a daily basis. ? Gain insight into the culture and lifestyle of the country as well as experience the responsibilities and duties associated with the workplace. |
Full semester or Full year | Sept - Dec or Feb - May | 31 March, 31 October | Florence Blake Lecturer florence.blake@lyit.ie Libby Harte elizabeth.harte@lyit.ie |
BSc (Hons) in Sports Coaching and Exercise with Physical Education | Aims of placement: ? Provide learners with an opportunity to apply theory to practice and gain valuable practical experience in the sport and exercise sector. |
Full Semester | Feb - May | 31 October | Suzanne Kennedy Lecturer suzanne.kennedy@lyit.ie Karl Lacey Assistant Lecturer karl.lacey@lyit.ie |
BSc (Hons) in Sports Coaching and Performance | Aims of placement: ? Provide learners with an opportunity to apply theory to practice and gain valuable practical experience in the sport and exercise sector. |
Full Semester | Feb - May | 31 October | Martina Sandilands Lecturer martina.sandilands@lyit.ie Karl Lacey Assistant Lecturer karl.lacey@lyit.ie |
BA in Law with degree award options: Criminal Justice | Aims of placement: ? Provide learners with the opportunity to apply the skills and knowledge gained in the programme in the work environment. ? Learners will have the opportunity to reflect critically on their own work practice. |
1 day per week for semester | Feb - May | 31 October | Bronagh Heverin Assistant Lecturer bronagh.heverin@lyit.ie |
BA in Law with degree award options: Irish or French or Spanish or German | Aims of placement: ? Provide learners with the opportunity to apply their skills and knowledge in a work environment in a country where the target language is spoken. ? Achieve greater competence in that language by using it on a daily basis. ? Gain insight into the culture and lifestyle of the country as well as experiencing the responsibilities and duties associated with the workplace. |
Full semester | Sept - Dec Feb - May | 31 March - January | Bronagh Heveruin Assistant Lecturer bronagh.heverin@lyit.ie |
BA in Law (LLB) | Aims of placement: ? Provide learners with the opportunity to apply the skills and knowledge gained in the programme in the work environment. ? Gain the experience of professional legal practice and have the opportunity to reflect critically on their own work practices. |
1 day per week for semester | Feb - May | 31 October | Bronagh Heverin Assistant Lecturer bronagh.heverin@lyit.ie |
Department of Design & Creative Media
Programme | Work Placement/Learning Aims/Description | Duration | Dates | Closing Date for submitting placements | Contact Person |
Department of Design & Creative Media | |||||
BA (Hons) with degree award options: Animation or Graphic & Digital Design or Fashion with Promotion or Digital Film & Video | Aims of placement: Animation: ? Allows the learner to experience the pace of working in the animation industry through working on a number of live industry project briefs. ? Learner will be able to utilise their animation production skillsets on a range of projects. Graphic & Digital Design: ? Apply creative and technical skills across a range of formats, platforms and media, whilst developing the relationship between client and designer through the implementation of 'live' briefs. ? Prepares the student to work in the design industry in a variety of roles whether self-employed, freelance, in-house or within a design studio. Fashion: ? Provides learners with the opportunity to apply the skills gained in the programme in the work environment. ? Provides learners with the opportunity to reflect critically on their own work practices. Digital Film: ? Allows the student to experience the pace of working in the Digital film and video industry through working on a number of live industry project briefs. ? Allows the learner to utilise their production skillset on a range of projects. |
1 Semester | 12 weeks (Feb to May) | January | Nollaig Crombie Head of Department nollaig.crombie@lyit.ie |
BA in Digital Film & Video | Aims of placement: ? Module will deal with issues pertaining and related to professional practice within filmmaking and video content design, production and distribution. It will include; case studies of exemplars both in-house and external. seminars with local professional practitioners. |
1 day per week for semester | Flexible - days can be grouped | End of March | Nollaig Crombie Head of Department nollaig.crombie@lyit.ie |
BA in Animation | Aims of placement: ? Develop the learner's knowledge of industry practice through the production of 'live' industry standard briefs and the animation pitching process. ? Develop a professional approach to their own promotion through a portfolio website and showreel. |
1 day per week for semester | Flexible - days can be grouped | End of March | Nollaig Crombie Head of Department nollaig.crombie@lyit.ie |
BA in Fashion with Promotion | Aims of placement: ? Provide learners with the opportunity to apply the skills gained in the programme in the work environment. ? Provide learners with the opportunity to reflect critically on their own work practices. |
4 weeks x 30 hours | Flexible | September | Nollaig Crombie Head of Department nollaig.crombie@lyit.ie |
BA in Graphic & Digital Design | Aims of placement: ? Learners will apply creative and technical skills across a range of formats, platforms and media, whilst developing the relationship between client and designer through the implementation of 'live' briefs. ? Prepares the student to work in the design industry in a variety of roles whether self-employed, freelance, in-house or within a design studio. |
1 Semester | Jan - May | January | Nollaig Crombie Head of Department nollaig.crombie@lyit.ie |
Higher Diploma in 3D Modelling and Animation | Aims of placement: ? Develop the learner's awareness of work related issues and professional standards in the business environment. ? Develop as a reflective practitioner in the business environment. ? Develop situated context learning to complement the learner's formal learning and explicit documented knowledge. |
4 weeks | Jan - May | January | Nollaig Crombie Head of Department nollaig.crombie@lyit.ie |