Work experience
We offer one-week work experience placements in the Library, over two separate weeks in the summer of each year.
The Library’s 2025 school work placements will be offered over two separate weeks, between 30 June 2025 and 11 July 2025.
We have seven different opportunities on offer, as follows:
June 30 2025 – July 4 2025
- (a) John Rylands Library (Deansgate) Services team
- (b) Collections / Projects and Business Analysis teams
- (c) Customer Services / Teaching, Learning and Students teams
- (d) Engagement / Library Administration teams
July 7 2025 – July 11 2025
- (e) John Rylands Library (Deansgate) Services team
- (f) Collection Care team
- (g) Digital Service Innovation team
To apply for a work experience placement, please email uml.hr@manchester.ac.uk by Friday January 31 2025, with a preference for which of the seven opportunities (a to g) that you would like to be considered for. We will endeavour to allocate spaces as requested but where there are more applications than placements then we will need to undertake a selection process.
Enabling fairer access
Please note, at Manchester we seek excellence, inclusivity and impact in everything that we do.
Widening participation in higher education – in particular, enabling fairer access to a Manchester education for talented students from all backgrounds – is central to our values as a world-class University and we will prioritise work experience requests from groups that are currently underrepresented in higher education.