Your Development
Develop your skills, enhance your employability and broaden your education.
We offer an exciting range of opportunities that allow you to develop in a range of key areas to help improve your skills and employability.
The Personal Development Module (PDM)
Our compulsory skills module will help you address areas for development identified by employers and our students. There's a focus on developing both academic and employability skills and on broadening your education in Economics. With compulsory elements such as the Economic Briefings Project, and optional elements such as IT training courses and careers events, you can develop the skills relevant to you.
Find out more about the PDMBecome a Student Ambassador
During your time at Warwick, you can become an Economics Student Ambassador; an opportunity with numerous benefits that allows you to share your passion for economics and the University of Warwick. As an ambassador, you will meet and help other students and be given further opportunities to engage with staff in the Department.
You will be provided with all the necessary training for the role and it will provide you with real work experience that will be an addition to your CV to enhance your employability.
Warwick Internship Scheme for Economists (WISE)
Our Warwick Internship Scheme for Economics will allow you to add to your CV and gain an insight into how an academic department operates. You will have the opportunity to apply to work as a paid intern for the Department and gain valuable skills for employment such as research skills, communications skills, report writing, event organisation and project management.
Undergraduate Mentor Scheme
All first-year economics students will be assigned a second or third-year mentor when they join us. Mentors are regularly available to pass on tips and information about the campus, surrounding area and academic life.
Part of their role is to help you settle in more quickly and answer your questions, however big or small, to help you integrate more swiftly into the Department and university life. After the first year, you can apply to become a mentor to support new undergraduate students.
