The Future of Work
We are designing our extensive suite of undergraduate and postgraduate taught programmes in the College to be relevant and future-focused and to embrace the implications for our students and our wider professional communities of an increasingly permeable and volatile working environment, changed through transformative new technologies, the use of Big Data and Artificial Intelligence. Our particular research expertise in understanding and utilising complex data in ever-changing social contexts through our Q-Step Centre, which specialises in the advancement of quantitative social science skills, and through Egenis, our interdisciplinary Centre for the study of the social and human implications of life sciences research, enhances the evidence base for our programmes.
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We will also be developing the next generation of lawyers, equipping them with academic and practical skills that will make them future leaders of their field through work placement module options. For example, in 2020, in partnership with leading Law firm Reed Smith LLP, we are launching an exciting new four year LLB ‘Legal Placement’ degree programme designed to prepare students for significant growth in legal innovation and technology and how this will inevitably change the future role of judges and lawyers as well as how justice is accessed more generally by the public. The programme includes an immersive year-long placement at Reed Smith’s London office, where students will work on active innovation projects which will focus on new and improved ways to deliver legal services. Read more at exeter.ac.uk/reedsmith exeter.ac.uk/q-step exeter.ac.uk/egenis
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