Apprentice Researcher Review

I am able to rotate between four different teams for two years before coming back to my favourite. At the moment, I am in my second team where I am doing data science - looking at anomaly detection algorithms for digital subscriber line (DSL) performance.

Yes - to name a few I would say I have developed my interpersonal skills, Python, SQL, React, time-management, reflection, and discipline.

As it is a 9-to-5 job and I also have all of the university responsibilities, I do find it difficult to enjoy the things that I want to do and it can be stressful. However, it is a great experience, I am learning so much and it's funded.

It has had over four years before me so it is well established and follows a good structure. The first two years are rotating teams every six months and then we go back to our preferred team where possible to finish our apprenticeship and roll-off.

I am very well supported and have lots of people to go to in the case of a problem.

This depends on the lecturer, but on the whole help is given when needed and we also have university mentors that can help us when we need them to.

It takes a lot of time away from being able to develop the skills that I need at work, but they help in technical aspects such as coding. Most of the time, the content doesn't follow up-to-date/best practices but they do help to build skills.

Yes, there are lots of opportunities, but as this is a 9-to-5 and we also have university work to consider, I don't have much time for these.

Yes

For a degree apprenticeship, they pay for our university, pay us a salary, and they also give us four years of experience.

For the degree apprenticeships, focus more on interpersonal skills and it makes a huge difference if you have previous experience in another workplace, no matter what kind of work that may be.