Susan Welland

Susan Welland

Deputy Director External Engagement, Careers Network

Contact details

Address
University of Birmingham
Edgbaston
Birmingham
B15 2TT
UK

Sue Welland is the Deputy Director for External Engagement at the University of Birmingham’s Careers Service Careers Network.  She leads the internship, employer engagement, mentoring, enterprise, business start-up and in-curricular areas of the department. 

Sue has developed and implemented an award winning suite of local, national and international internship programmes and a series of sector leading bursaries.  She also trains other HE professionals in the field of work experience and has presented at a number of international conferences, including more recently around the development of virtual internships.

Sue leads the Student Entrepreneurship strand of The Exchange at The University of Birmingham and is a Project Board Member.  Sue also has responsibility for overseeing the Careers Service support for the University’s Dubai campus.

Qualifications

  • Postgraduate Certificate in Management of Student Work Experience, University of Warwick, 2013
  • BA (Hons) in Business Management, Staffordshire University, 2011

Expertise

Best practice in recruitment of students for work experience