You'll find that for most projects, you have a mix of different degree backgrounds in your team. This will mean that you all have different technical skills, knowledge and expertise that you can contribute - closely replicating the real workplace. 

Your team is made up of students from degree backgrounds that organisations chose when they wrote their project briefs - so you have all been chosen by an organisation and all have something important to contribute to the project.

Your team is also made up of students at different levels of study - from foundation years all the way through to postgraduate taught students. Again, this means you all have a different, equally valuable perspective to contribute.

You'll find that you all have slightly different roles that you prefer to play within a team. You'll probably naturally gravitate towards one or more of these.

1. Project manager: you're good at breaking big goals into smaller tasks and making sure everyone is on track. You love organisation, delegation and time management and you feel anxious without a clear plan. It's important to you that things are done on time and you meet all your obligations.

2. Creative: you're a big picture thinker with a lot of creative ideas. You'll have a lot to contribute quickly at the brainstorming stage and it's important to you to move quickly with a project. 

3. Researcher: your first instinct when working on a project is to do a lot of reading. You want to want to make sure everything is backed by evidence and fully sound before you recommend it to anyone else, and it's important to you that things are done right.

4. Editor: you love a writing task and sloppy communication makes you unhappy. Even if you didn't write everything, you want to go through the final draft to make sure it speaks with a clear voice and single writing style. It's important to you that your work is professional.

5. Facilitator: you notice the temperature in the room and how your teammates are relating to each other. You can see everybody's strengths and want everyone to be able to contribute properly to the project. It's important to you that everyone is collaborating well. 

All of these roles are important - the project is made stronger by having a mix of all of them, as all each have associated areas of weakness (e.g. the creative can move too fast and not get the detail right; the researcher can find it difficult to commit to 'good enough' rather than 'perfect'. 

Here are some basic rules that we ask you all to commit to when working in a team throughout the week. These are based on the Project Acceptance Form you've all completed to sign up for the project.

As an individual...

• You commit to attending the full week from 13-17 April including skills workshops, organisation briefings and presentation meetings. If you need to take short absences during the week you agree these with your team and make a plan to ensure you still meet the deadlines and are able to contribute fairly.

• You commit to the spirit of the scheme - supporting worthwhile projects to achieve their stated goals.

• You take individual responsibility for completing elements of the project and for collaborating effectively with your team. 

• As a team, you will abide by standard health and safety requirements on campus and if visiting organisations' premises, as well as other relevant policies including confidentiality, GDPR and safeguarding.

As a team...

• You adhere to our University workplace culture - positively supporting equality, diversity and inclusion, and contributing to a supportive approach to project completion.

• You respect organisations' time by showing up promptly to any meetings and mitigating the demand on organisations - for example by nominating one person to manage communications with the organisation through the week.

• You inform staff if you have concerns about the project brief or deadlines, so we can mediate with organisations.