Internship opportunities
LISS encourages students to undertake internships to enhance their future career prospects and increase the impact of their research; however you should discuss a possible internship with your supervisor to ensure that it does not interfere with progress on your PhD. Internships enable students to develop a sharper sense of the wider relevance of their research as well as professional and transferrable workplace skills in line with the Vitae Researcher Development Framework. Placements may also build expertise in knowledge co-generation, where research questions, analytical frameworks and knowledge exchange processes are co-designed with academic and practitioner input.
There are three methods through which internships can be developed:
- devise your own internship, through your own initiative, supervisor or institutional support, or
- LISS DTP is informed of internship opportunities, often within major UK government departments, once to twice a year through various ESRC schemes and will advertise these as they are sent to us
- LISS DTP has a set of Research Assistant Internships giving students the opportunity to work on academic research projects at one of the three LISS institutions
For more information on submitting an application to the LISS DTP for an internship opportunities, please see our guidance for current students under ‘Funded Extension Schemes’.
Internship Testimonials
Current Opportunities
Research Assistant Internship Scheme
Our Research Assistant internship scheme enables LISS DTP funded students to work as Research Assistants for a period of up to 13 weeks with an academic (other than their immediate supervisor) based at King’s, Queen Mary or Imperial. Interns will benefit from, for example, working with a larger team of researchers, gaining academic writing practice, training in research methods, networking and dissemination, collaboration with external partners. Interns continue to receive their usual stipend payment for the duration of the internship and payments are extended by the relevant number of weeks at the end of the original funding end date.
Details of internship projects are listed below. If you are interested in one or more of these, please get in touch with the person named as Contact. Please note that funding for these internships is only available to ESRC-funded LISS DTP students. The Contact is responsible for selecting the student to take up the internship. If you are selected, the you must then apply for an internship extension via the form at https://liss-dtp.ac.uk/studentships/managing-your-liss-dtp-studentship/funded-extension-schemes/ in order to show that you have obtained the agreement of your supervisor and so that the appropriate changes to your funding records can be made.
Academic Proposals for Internships
If you are an academic and would like to propose a project for a Research Assistant Internship, please complete the online proposal form. The next deadline for submission of proposals is July 2022 – further details to be announced
Current Research Assistant Internship Opportunities
Past Opportunities (for reference only)
Process Evaluation of Smart City E-Bike Trials (Civil Engineering, Imperial College) – NOW FILLED
Find out morePlanetary Portals (Geography, QMUL) – NOW FILLED
Find out moreThe European Union and Global Apartheid (European and International Studies, KCL) – NOW FILLED
Find out moreAfrica’s Next Debt Crisis? Is Chinese Lending a Looming Disaster (Geography, KCL) NOW FILLED
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