Host Name:
Southampton and New Forest Citizens Advice
Main point of contact
Kirsty Rowlinson, krowlinson@sotoncab.org.uk
Organisation summary
We are an independent New Forest charity, serving the community of the New Forest District and are open to everyone who lives or works on the New Forest.
The Southampton and New Forest Citizens Advice are pleased to offer a placement opportunity for 3 months (or part time equivalent) on a hybrid basis, so there would be some time spent working remotely and some in person.
The CAB would like research into the problem and potential solutions, and then thoughts on implementation.
Problems
- How to collect constructive and coherent feedback from a cross-section of clients, across a range of different advice channels.
- How to develop a comprehensive and accessible ‘self service’ offer. Realistically we will never be able to meet demand, so how do we help people to help themselves, but on a shoestring (and bearing in mind significant levels of digital exclusion)?
- How can we harness digital technologies? We are quite constrained by insurers and various quality/accreditation issues, but there must be some clever things we could do to help ourselves.
This opportunity would suit someone interested in social justice/social policy/demography, the Southampton and New Forest Citizens is a very interesting environment to work in, and very large data rich. This placement would offer an overview of the challenges that their clients face on a daily basis. The opportunity to make a difference to a charity working on the ‘front line’ and see your work implemented in reality. The opportunity to make a difference to people in Southampton.
The Southampton and New Forest Citizens Advice will provide you with the tools and resources you need for the placement, you would need to be inducted as a volunteer and go through some compulsory training to access to their database.
New Forest National Park Authority / GREENPRINT
New Forest National Park Authority / GREENPRINT have multiple placement opportunities open to South Coast DTP PGR’s.
They are looking for assistance at meetings / events, online and in person, desk-based research, writing draft reports, evaluation & stakeholder mapping.
Are you interested in the work of a protected landscape/ National Park Authority? Join their friendly team for a period to gain skills, help on projects and get experience in the workplace. GreenPrint have a broad workforce helping to look after the New Forest National Park.
They also have specific work aligned with the GreenPrint initiative, which pans the Central South and projects could include working with business, other local authorities and the academic partners, to help embed sustainable thinking and practice in our area.
GreenPrint can help design a suitable placement based on what we are working on and the student’s skills and aspirations.
Inclusive Practices Project:
Two-year project that aims to diversify the art and design curriculum. To shift the thinking around awareness of race, inclusion and racial literacy within the Art & Design curriculum. We are working with our School of Education, PGCE students alongside artists to develop a more inclusive, representational and varied curriculum for Year 7 & 8 students in 9 secondary schools.
The placement student will reviewing evaluation from a pilot project involving schools, pupils, trainee teachers and artists – happening in summer 2025 and help to shape and gather impact data for the 2nd phase of this project in 2026.
This project is funded to January 2027.
Key activity will happen in the next academic year ending July 2026.
There would also be a chance to evaluate with trainee teachers and paired artists during this time.
UoS student would spend time reviewing data and findings and finalising reports / pulling together resources during autumn 2026.
Reporting back to Freelands in January 2027.
