Dr Laura Pearson

As the Senior Placement Tutor for the Faculty of Arts, Design and Humanities, I am responsible for supporting students on year-long internships, both in industry and within De Montfort University, as part of their explorations of self-employment in the Enterprise Placement Year.

I am Senior Placement Tutor and Module Leader for:

• SANA2500 Placement Year Module (Undergraduate Students)
• SANA2501 Enterprise Year Module (Undergraduate Students)
• SANA5000 Placement Year Module (Postgraduate Taught Students)

I support students in a variety of ways: conducting placement visits, liaising with employers, providing pastoral support, marking and assessment duties. 

Careers and employability

Placement pedagogy

Nineteenth-century literature and culture 

PhD English Literature from the University of Nottingham (2014): 'The 'British' Carmen Sylva: recuperating a German-Romanian Writer'

MA Humanities: The Long Nineteenth Century, from the University of Nottingham (2010) 

BA (hons) English and German, from the University of Nottingham (2009) 

Module Leader for SANA2500 Placement Year

Module Leader for SANA2501 Enterprise Placement Year

Module Leader for SANA5000 PGT Placement Year

Associate Fellow of the Higher Education Academy

Qualsafe Level 3 Award in Mental Health First Aid in the Workplace (RQF)

QAA Embedding Mental Wellbeing: Methods and Benefits in the Curriculum, Project Contributor, January 2021-May 2022. View my paper here.

Reviewing our understanding of the student Placement experience to enhance, improve, and expand, Academic innovation Project: September 2023-August 2024, Project Lead alongside Deepa Rughani and Sam Dalby.