internship Archives - Catalyse Change

Green Internships: What Have We Learnt?

October 24, 2022

Our new pilot Green Internship & Work Placement programme is now complete! Two catalysts joined ERM for summer placements within the critical resource team and stakeholder engagement team. While three joined Vattenfall Heat UK for a three-week work placement. With training support provided by Burges-Salmon. So what were the objectives of this programme? To support our catalysts on a full sustainability learning journey To provide excellent, relevant and supported sustainability work placements To help bridge the gap between education and…

Our green work placement experience

September 11, 2022

Traci Lewis

For three weeks in August 2022, we – Morgane, Iva and Jasmina – joined the Vattenfall Heat UK team on a green work placement programme in collaboration with Catalyse Change. This unique opportunity allowed us to have one-on-one calls with different team members to discover the fascinating work that goes into heat networks, from engineering, project management to diversity and inclusion, and be included in group meetings. Thanks to the warm welcome from the team, we were able to learn…

My Green Career journey

April 27, 2022

Traci Lewis

Josephine Billany shares with us her experience joining the Catalyse Change community and how it has shaped her career. Like many other university freshers, I embarked upon my degree feeling anxious and excited in equal measure. I enrolled at Cardiff University to study Biological Science on the grounds that I had enjoyed the subject at school, liked the city of Cardiff and thought it was a good university. Although I had absolutely no idea what I would do with my…

How to find a sustainability internship

February 15, 2022

Traci Lewis

Maddy Diment has written us a blog this month all about how to get an internship opportunity in the sustainability field, and how to make the most out of it. At University there existed an overwhelming chatter around finding and securing an internship. It seemed like everyone around me had it all together, with their spring-break schemes, summer internship plans, and law firm open-day invites. In my 2nd year, this chatter took on a new, almost-messianic dimension: find an internship,…

Embracing the uncertainty

April 18, 2020

Traci Lewis

Hellie Painter – a second year student at Exeter Uni – shares 7 ways in which she has been embracing the uncertainty caused by COVID-19. Hellie is now back at her parents home near Bath during the lockdown. She is currently wondering what to do next now that her internships have been cancelled and her final Study Abroad year is now also uncertain. The coronavirus pandemic has already caused so much uncertainty and anxiety across the world. Uncertainty around our…