"As a Project Assistant my primary role was to provide a unique student outlook on multiple aspects of the university however primarily the StrathApp. Throughout my time in the team we took an in depth look into the structure of communications across the university and created and proposed a communications matrix for the whole university to follow. We also as a team led a freshers stall where we gathered user acceptance data on the freshly released version 4 of the StrathApp. Individually I was given the opportunity to complete a course in flutter development to help firstly develop my own skills and also better understand the development of the app to create more informed decisions and with the foresight of getting to do future development work.

"The main experience I gained working as a project assistant were soft skills including social skills in the workplace and a lot of management skills whether it be personal time management, team time management or even finding the best times to meet with other teams. This is something that is unique to an industry environment where you get to see in real time decisions being made, especially since I was working through the time of release of version 4 of the StrathApp. I also gained hands on experience in seeing what an industry leading app looks like behind the scenes and being amazed by the complexity.

"I am now working full time as a developer within the team and my experience in the team has given me the opportunity to have a different outlook on the projects in general, still coming at each problem keeping the user at the forefront of my mind.
The student co creation model is not only beneficial but crucial to students nowadays. With an increasingly saturated job market having experience in industry is almost a bare minimum requirement for most roles and therefor giving students the opportunity to gain that experience is vital for their career success." - Duncan Kilpatrick, BSc Software Engineering