Monthly Archives: November 2009

Six months in the U.S. of A

November 27, 2009 – 2:30 pm

I’m very quickly coming to the end of my 6 months out in Washington DC and feel sad that it’s nearly over. I was lucky enough to secure a secondment with the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE’s) working in the international office within the Office of Nuclear Energy.  I have been involved in a wide [...]

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Sighting - International Celebrity of the Nuclear World!

November 27, 2009 – 2:27 pm

News from Washington DC
When you think of one of the well known “celebrities” of the nuclear world you imagine a whole entourage of secret service men wearing Men in Black style suits talking into the cuffs of their jackets.  Which is why I was so surprised when I bumped into the International Atomic Energy Agency’s [...]

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Best2Know

November 18, 2009 – 12:51 pm

Best2Know – among others is a service provided to young people across Lancashire in support of sex and relationship education (SRE) in the world of public health.

I spent the first half of my hours at the NHS researching the different services provided to young people. This resulted in many “this page has been blocked, please [...]

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Milk Bottles and a Bare Fence

November 15, 2009 – 9:00 am

My footprints placement in Secondment 2 has been helping the Howgill Family Centre with their work at Greenbank Community Centre in Whitehaven.
A lot of the input we’ve had has been helping out at community nights, where Howgill put on a differnt type of  ‘art and craft’ type activity each week. We’ve made ceramic ’severed fingers’ [...]

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Working in the Community of St Luke’s

November 12, 2009 – 9:28 am

Working at St. Luke’s Community centre in Islington has opened my eyes to the lives of others. It is a fantastic place that provides many many services to local residents from ballroom dancing to debt advice.
I have been working on an ‘Outreach’ project that aims to identify local residents that do not currently use the centre and [...]

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Energus

November 11, 2009 – 11:00 am

My Footprints project has been a schools based project with Energus.
Energus are a partnership by the public and private sectors as a non-for-profit company. They work with education and training providers to deliver the energy and low carbon industries with the skills needed now and into the future through programmes such as the engineering apprenticeship [...]

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My career as a Model… ler

November 10, 2009 – 2:46 pm

My 2nd secondment has been based at Westlakes Scientific Consulting in Dovenby, Cumbria, where I’ve been involved with environmental research.
The majority of this work has been building an envrionmental model to test the basic assumptions made by scientists in the nuclear industry when evaluating the radiation dose received by the environment from waste management and [...]

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A Licence to… Build?

November 5, 2009 – 11:16 am

I am coming towards the end of my placement with Westinghouse and it has been quite an exciting time to be part of the licensing team. My days have been spent working between the Westinghouse head offices in Preston and the Rolls Royce offices in Warrington. I have meetings in various other places dropped in-between [...]

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The Department of Energy and Climate Change

November 5, 2009 – 9:38 am

Two and a half days to go of my secondment with DECC and I am currently on the six monthly emotional roller coaster! I have to leave friends, my comfort zone and the fantastic city that is London and get ready to start all over again! I have very much enjoyed my time here and I would recommend DECC to anyone who would [...]

By Becky Read | Posted in footprints | Comments (0)

nucleargraduates in the Real World

November 5, 2009 – 9:27 am

Some familiar faces appear in Real World magazine…
http://tinyurl.com/yk8o4vs

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