Opportunities in and near Portishead

Explore Glenside Campus on a guided 45-minute tour led by Student Ambassadors. See the facilities, get a feel for university life and ask general questions as you walk around the whole campus.

Join interactive walks, short talks and workshops around Cardiff and its parks, exploring how research can change the way you see familiar places. Pick one session or several, with themes from screen culture to memory and autobiography.

Create fieldwork art in Cardiff’s historic shopping arcades with a local artist, capturing hidden details through texture rubbings, clay, crayons and quick line drawings. Then combine your work into a collage exploring identity, community and place.

Spend Tuesdays carrying out hands-on conservation work to help manage wildlife reserves across the Eastern Valleys. You could volunteer at Silent Valley, Branches Fork Meadows, Strawberry Cottage Wood or Henllys Bog.

Help shape health services by sharing young people’s views, gathering feedback and creating information materials, animations or videos that explain procedures and services. You’ll contribute to Health Board decisions, with a minimum commitment of one hour a month.

Spend a week discovering how a major theatre runs, through workshops with Box Office, Producing, Marketing and Engagement teams and experience in backstage roles. Explore creative careers and how departments work together; successful applicants are interviewed before places are awarded.

Try virtual reality, tackle board games and uncover mini-digs at a free humanities event. Explore research into identity, community and decision-making through interactive activities, live music, film screenings and exhibitions.

Explore how computational chemistry and data science help researchers design more efficient catalysts, through Professor Natalie Fey’s research journey in organometallic chemistry. Hear how theory connects with experiments, then head to a drinks reception at the Wills Memorial Building.

Explore commercial law and business at an insight day, meeting legal professionals to hear about their career journeys, routes after school or college, and Bright Sparks work experience. Take part in activities that build confidence and teamwork, and get practical advice on study and apprenticeships.

Spend a week in a commercial law firm, meeting people across the business and seeing how legal teams support clients and communities. Take on an interactive group project and team challenge, building your communication, problem-solving and presentation skills.

Spend a week-long placement joining active aerospace projects and building skills with support from dedicated work experience champions. Explore career paths across engineering, IT, human resources, procurement and health and safety, at sites in Bristol or Cowes.

Explore royal clothes and fashion through the eyes of the Surveyor of the King’s Works of Art. Discover the unusual requirements and dress codes followed by royal queens, and how dress and symbolism shaped life at court.

Hear Professor Mike Fulford trace Silchester’s story from its Late Iron Age origins to its demise centuries later. Drawing on decades of excavation, fieldwork and laboratory analysis, he reveals how research has transformed what we know about this Hampshire town.

Explore the British Industrial Revolution with Professor Emma Griffin, whose research centres on modern Britain and ordinary people's lives. Her lecture examines how this transformative period helped make the modern world; no advance booking needed - just sign in at the lecture theatre door.

Talk with patients, serve teas and coffees, help make beds or escort people around hospital. You’ll get general training, with extra where needed, and build confidence through a regular volunteer role of at least three hours a week for six months.

Professor Caroline Dodds Pennock examines how Indigenous Americans encountered and understood Europe, challenging the idea that global connections began with European arrival in the Americas. Explore early modern contact and exchange at the Humanities Building, University of Bristol; sign in at the lecture theatre door.

Use portraits, ambassadors’ reports and other surviving evidence to explore how Henry VIII understood his identity and power, with Professor Steven Gunn’s lecture delivered in person at the University of Bristol.

Shadow council teams for up to three days, join a short placement lasting four to ten days, or meet an expert one-to-one. Explore fields from digital services and construction to law, transport and environmental work; placements may also be remote.

Build a rigorous foundation in acting technique through weekly evening classes designed to fit alongside your school or college qualifications, while exploring the path towards professional training.

Professor Matt Worley of the University of Reading examines punk as a musical form, attitude and aesthetic - not just a style or consumer trend - and asks whether it gave young people a platform to challenge a society shaped by unemployment, violence and social fragmentation.