Careers Workshop for UG Students of Linguistics 1st of May
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Venue: Frances House Common Room, Mile End Campus
This is an event is for all undergraduate linguistics students of Queen Mary, University of London, who are interested in planning their careers in linguistics. The workshop will take place between 10.30am and 4pm on 1 May 2013 on Mile End Campus in the Frances House Common Room (next to the Drunken Monkey). The day will consist of a question session with invited speakers whose professions are relevant to students with a degree in linguistics. After lunch, there will be a LinkedIn session, followed by a CV workshop.
The following speakers are confirmed.
Hassaanah Amejee, TV Presenter at Islam Channel
Helen Barton, Publicist at Cambridge University Press
David Hall, PhD student at Queen Mary, University of London
Jonnie Robinson, Curator for Sociolinguistics at the British Library
Gillian Sewell, Speech and Language Therapist at the NHS
Selina Ulhaq: Recruitment Officer at Teach First
This event is free and for QM students of linguistics only. Registration is essential - sign up using the password 'linguistic2013' at [http://qmullinguisticscareersworkshop.eventbrite.com/].
The organisers of the event are Esther de Leeuw (Lecturer in Linguistics), Vicki Tipton (Careers Consultant for SLLF), Afreen Kashmiri (3rd year student rep), Yasmin Hassan (2nd year student rep) and Katie Louise Lewis (1st year student rep).