Work placements: Department of Music

We offer multiple opportunities for you to to gain valuable experience and enhance your CV. 

Arts Work Placement module

We are one of few UK music departments to offer a credit-bearing 'work placement module' as part of the curriculum.

For this module, you complete a local work placement in a Nottinghamshire based company or organisation. Previous roles which our students have worked in include:

• Radio Broadcaster at Erewash Sound
• Content creator at Famtastic Rocks
• Marketing intern at Lakeside Arts
• Social media assistant at University of Nottingham Libraries
• Event management at cloud9 event management
• Language classroom assistant at The Language Centre
• Art gallery curator Surface Gallery

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Contemporary Approaches to Music Education module

This module centres on participation in primary school music teaching in partnership with the Nottingham Music Hub.

Students attend weekly in-school sessions throughout the autumn and spring semesters, assisting with Nottingham First Access mentoring (In Harmony and/or Whole Class Ensemble) or contributing to the direction of post-first-access ensembles.

In the spring semester, fortnightly classes will supplement the in-school experience with sessions on topics such as:

• the national music plan and music hubs
• different teaching and learning styles
• Musical Futures
• musical inclusion and teaching in inner-city schools
• special educational needs

Student music library assistants 

Based in the Denis Arnold Music Library on campus, student assistants staff the Music Library in the evenings and at weekends.

Training is given by professional librarians at the start of every year.