Leeds Beckett University - City Campus,
Woodhouse Lane,
LS1 3HE
Computing host Industry Day
Dr Pip Trevorrow Course Director for the Cyber Security and Digital Forensics courses, talks about the recent Computing Industry Day. Students received talks from industry professionals discussing career paths and key opportunities.
We were delighted to welcome so many of our external partners to the Computing Industry Day held at Headingley Campus on Thursday 25th January, organised and managed by Course Director of Cyber Security and Digital Forensics Dr Pip Trevorrow, School Careers and Employability Consultants Nyree Hardie, and Mike Hall.
The morning session delivered an account of ‘a day in the life’ by Chris Spinks – Head of Operations at Cyjax, as well as Barney Ellinas-Gilks and Lewis Graham - both alumni from the Computer Forensics and Security award who now work for Pentest People. There were also talks from Alice Garthwaite – from the forensics team at West Yorkshire Police, Patrick Marren – Client Executive from UST, Richard Bartlett – Development & Support Manager from Leeds City Council, and Hannah Bratley - CEO of FRAME. The talks were all inspiring and provided real links between the degree awards and potential careers.
The talks were all inspiring and provided real links between the degree awards and potential careers
The morning culminated with an alumni and placement panel where we welcomed back Jordan Powel - Cyber Security placement student, Maja Dobrowolski - Robotics graduate now working at FRAME, Oliver McLaughlin - Computer Science graduate now working at Cognizant, and Kevin Brewster - Computer Science graduate now working at Tombola. The questions were abundant, and the panel were able to provide plenty of great ideas and experiences of moving from study to a career.
The afternoon saw some speed networking opportunities for our students as they worked their way around tables of our external partners: Cyjax, LCC, bet365, WYP, UST, FRAME, as well as a table of Level 6 students, providing their experiences on placements. Overall, it was a fantastic experience that had our students asking for more.
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Dr Pip Trevorrow
Pip is Course Director for Cyber Security and Digital Forensics. She teaches across all levels (4 through to 7 and PhD) on the courses. She is actively supervising PhD students with has six PhD completions to date.
