Placement Opportunities
The National Trust Gardens Programme
The Gardens Programme Evaluation Internship
Duration: 3 months approximately
September 2018 – April 2019 (It would be possible for the work to be done in a single block of three months or spread over a longer period for fewer days a week). The project requires travel to different National Trust properties in the south-east for which the NT would pay expenses.
Centre for Victorian Studies at Royal Holloway
Archives Digitization Project Internship: The Letters of Elizabeth Jesser Reid
Dates: 1 September 2018 – 1 May 2019 (some flexibility is available)
Hours: 8-10 hours per week (3 months FTE)
Assistant Director, Centre for Victorian Studies
Dates: 1 September 2018-30 August 2020
Hours: 4-6 hours per week, term time only (3 months FTE); evening work required on days of seminar events
Research Councils Policy Internship Competition 2018/19
The Research Councils organize internships for current Research Council-funded PhD students to spend three months at partner host organizations on one or more policy topics relevant to both the student and the host. You will have the opportunity to produce at least one briefing paper, participate in a policy inquiry and/or organize a policy event, or equivalent piece of work.
Internships are awarded to a number of Parliamentary, Government Departments and Non-Governmental Bodies, and Learned societies. AHRC-funded students have been very well-received by these organizations in the past, and alumni of the scheme have subsequently benefited from their policy experience and contacts in their ongoing research and career development.
The host partners for the 2018/19 competition round are:
- Age UK
- Centre for Science and Policy (CSaP)
- Committee on Climate Change
- Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport
- Department for Education
- Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra)
- Department for Work and Pensions (DWP)
- Food Standards Agency
- Government Office for Science (GO-Science)
- Her Majesty’s Inspectorate of Constabulary and Fire & Rescue Services (HMICFRS)
- HM Courts & Tribunals Services
- Home Office
- National Assembly for Wales Research Service
- National Library of Scotland
- Northern Ireland Assembly Research and Information Service (RaISe)
- Parliamentary Office of Science and Technology (POST)
- PHG Foundation
- Public Health England
- Scottish Environment Protection Agency (SEPA)
- Scottish Parliament Information Centre (SPICe)
- Select Committees, House of Commons
- Sentencing Council
- The National Archives
- The Royal Society
- The Royal Society of Biology
- WRAP (Waste & Resources Action Programme)
For more information on the scheme and how to apply, please see the UK Research and Innovation Policy Internship webpage
Royal Institution
Digital Media Intern – Professional Intern for PhD Student (PIPS)
12 week internship – September to November 2018 (with flexibility for the right candidate)
Payment through Research Council Stipend
Media & Communications Assistant – Professional Intern for PhD Student (PIPS)
12 week internship – November 2018 to January 2019
Payment through Research Council Stipend
Programmes Assistant – Professional Intern for PhD Student (PIPS)
12 week internship – October to December 2018
Payment through Research Council Stipend