Name of Organisation: Artecology
Description of Organisation: Artecology is the innovative research and development department of ARC Biodiversity and Climate. Based on the Isle of Wight, Artecology work with industry and research partners to create bio receptive construction and landscape designs for marine, freshwater and land-based development.
Name of Employer: Ian Boyd
Job Title: Director
Internship Scheme used: Access to Internships (A2I)
Employer subsidies (A2I) – Employment Services – University of Exeter
Internship Feedback:
We recruited an intern to work as a Research Assistant within our organisation. We set her a number of objectives that she met to a very high standard and she made a very positive contribution to our company.
The key output from our Intern’s work was feasibility work on new ideas for Artecology training modules, essential work that we are continuing to take forwards.
We were really impressed with the calibre of the University of Exeter student. She was well prepared for the workplace and worked very well as part of our team.
The Intern was ‘poached’ by a very large international consultancy! We were very happy for her and actually rather proud that we played some small part in her success.
We found the internship experience with Exeter University (and our outstanding intern) to be really useful to our work and to our thinking about future HE collaboration. We would highly recommend any firm to participate in taking on an Intern with the University.