Students met and heard from employers and alumni in March 2020 at a virtual Hendon campus, created through our brand- new
Gather.town platform. Students used avatars to navigate around the simulated campus and network professionally with a host of guests. The platform also hosted a disability speed mentoring event and a careers and wellbeing session, which gave all students a sense of being connected.
CONTINUED SUPPORT INTO WORK Programmes to support professional life this year included:
— MDXadvantage: this intensive programme for final-year students includes alumni mentoring, assessment centre training and CV and LinkedIn support. For this year’s MDXadvantage challenge, we joined forces with Transform Society, a public sector access and opportunity partner, and Barnet Council. Students were tasked with generating solutions to environmental and sustainability issues in the community and proposed models to build partnerships and share knowledge between students and residents
— Emerging Professional Programme: this offers online and face-to-face activities to prepare students and equip them with skills for the next chapter in their career journey. As fewer students could be on campus, we ran the event through June and July. This meant we could invite limited numbers of students onto campus and offer a blended, livestream option for a larger number of students for the workshops. There were workshop pathways for each study year, and a central workshop pathway open to all. The programme culminated in a week-long paid internship for a selected group of 25 students, who worked in teams on four client projects relating to social mobility, mental health, sustainability and environmental impact. Outputs from the student projects undertaken as part of the Emerging Professional Programme are being progressed with those project clients and will form the basis for ongoing secondary and more extensive project collaborations in the coming year
— MDXequals: this supports students from all ethnic and socio-economic backgrounds, and those with disabilities and mental health problems. To ensure that MDXworks fully understands the nuances and complexities of discrimination, racism, inequality and exclusion, a series of open discussion and expert-led sessions were undertaken. This led to a greater appreciation of the issues many of our students face daily. This model of team reflection and development is to be piloted across professional services and academic Departments
— MDXcelerator: now in its third year, this programme offers mentoring and grants for students and alumni who are thinking about setting up an enterprise or becoming self-employed. This year’s contest attracted 70 applicants and 30 were chosen to benefit from tailored one-to-
one sessions, workshops and masterclasses, as well as networking opportunities and pitching challenges. Participants gain the ability to develop and articulate business concepts, and understand market opportunities, financial scenarios and growth strategies.
Five finalists presented their ideas to judges including Vanessa Fernandes, founder and managing director of NAYA London, Nigel Wray, a serial entrepreneur, Vice-Chancellor Professor Nic Beech, and Louise Fairleigh, a business coach and relationship manager at Santander.
The finalists had five minutes to pitch their proposal followed by a five-minute question and answer session. The winners were:
1. Luigi Castellano – Xuonii (£7,500) 2. Courtney Wilson – 624 Studios (£4,500) 3. Georgia Gkolfinopoulou – FIRMUS (£2,000) 4. Fatimah Mohammad – Women’s Only Fitness (£500) 5. Tannika Williams-Nelson – Wordplay Poetry (£500).
All five were paired with a mentor to continue their entrepreneurial journey
— MDXcel: this in-house creative agency offers project-based learning, where students collaborate to create solutions for national and local organisations. Through 2020/21, it developed more partnerships with modules and further piloted the MDXcel model within them. This year, in a collaboration with Marketing Consultancy third-year students, MDXworks secured seven clients, which offered a total of 12 project briefs to groups of two to five students. The module provided 41 students with an intense consultancy experience, on which we received positive feedback.
We have hosted careers fairs, industry panels, talks and events, question-and-answer sessions with experts, taster days and networking events, as well as ‘pop-up’ online workshops predominantly led by employers.
MDXworks continues to innovate in its service provision to students and alumni. Through this year we have been piloting a range of initiatives and co-curricular programmes that are validated and verified via micro-credentials. By optimising and recognising the multiple learning and skills development opportunities that Middlesex students can engage in – and validating these through industry-leading digital badging, we build on our commitment to nurture and transition students into the world of work. This means they can who can confidently articulate their evidence-based ‘distinctiveness’ and true value to employers – their ‘story’.
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