Psychology
- Alongside study
- Commuting, part-time café work
- Heading towards
- HR, recruitment or charity communications
Different starting points.
Different routes into work.
A guide to the 21 participant profiles in the working report. Names and institutions are omitted from individual entries.
Mechanical engineering
- Alongside study
- Completed a manufacturing placement
- Heading towards
- Design or manufacturing engineering
Business and marketing, online
- Alongside study
- Assistant store manager
- Heading towards
- Marketing or a commercial graduate role
History
- Alongside study
- Volunteers at a local museum
- Heading towards
- Civil Service, policy or museum communications
Adult nursing
- Alongside study
- Final clinical placements
- Heading towards
- Band 5 staff nurse, acute care
Computing, online
- Alongside study
- Works full-time in IT support
- Heading towards
- Cloud operations or junior DevOps
Health and care management, online
- Alongside study
- Senior care assistant, parent
- Heading towards
- Deputy care-home manager
Criminology and law, online
- Alongside study
- Security supervisor, night shifts
- Heading towards
- Probation, prison service or Civil Service
Business and computing
- Alongside study
- Part-time call-centre work
- Heading towards
- Junior business analyst or digital operations
Fashion marketing
- Alongside study
- Weekend retail, completed a brand internship
- Heading towards
- Brand assistant, fashion marketing or e-commerce
Business and tourism management
- Alongside study
- Hotel night supervisor
- Heading towards
- Hotel operations or events coordination
Film, TV and digital production
- Alongside study
- Freelance camera and editing work
- Heading towards
- Production assistant, junior editor, documentary
Business and entrepreneurship
- Alongside study
- Sews and sells clothing online
- Heading towards
- Buying or operations in fashion
Business management
- Alongside study
- Placement with a community football foundation
- Heading towards
- Partnerships or community programmes in sport
Business management
- Alongside study
- Mature student, previous support work, caring responsibilities
- Heading towards
- Council or charity service coordination
Business management
- Alongside study
- First in his family at university, weekend pharmacy work
- Heading towards
- Operations or general business graduate roles
Law
- Alongside study
- First-generation student, works in a family business
- Heading towards
- Paralegal, then qualification
Cybersecurity
- Alongside study
- Completed a security operations placement, part-time IT support
- Heading towards
- Junior SOC analyst
Business management
- Alongside study
- Society social-media officer, no placement year
- Heading towards
- Social media, content or graduate marketing
Business management
- Alongside study
- Part-time accounts assistant
- Heading towards
- Audit or financial analysis with professional qualification support
Business management
- Alongside study
- Building a freelance digital marketing business
- Heading towards
- Self-employment
How to read
these profiles.
The profile descriptions are those reported in the working copy. They are not a representative sample description or evidence of coverage by themselves. Some profile values were changed in the earlier corpus; their reconciliation with original records remains part of the version-history issue described in About the study.
The range of routes into work helps contextualise the accounts. The index does not demonstrate how comprehensively each interview was analysed, and the sample is not representative of UK undergraduates.