Author: Eleanor

Each year we recruit a team of recent Newcastle University graduates to represent the Newcastle student experience. They help encourage young people from a wide range of backgrounds to consider higher education.

Our team delivers activities in the form of workshops, presentations and interactive sessions. We do this in secondary schools and colleges, as well as online and on campus.

We are recruiting seven positions.

More information can be found here: Outreach Ambassador | Newcastle University

NCL Internships are open to all current Newcastle University students and provide a unique opportunity to gain valuable graduate level work experience alongside your course.

Opportunities are advertised throughout the year and you find all current vacancies on My Career by searching ‘NCL Internship’

The following NCL Internships are advertising on MyCareer right now:

Internship Title, company name: Consumer Insight and Research Intern, Emotional Logic

Student requirements: This internship is open to all Newcastle University students, however a background in research with respondents, statistical or qualitative analysis would be of advantage.

Closing date: 24/02/2025

Dates and times: This internship will take place for 200 hours between June and September 2025. You will undertake on average 20 hours per week, over the summer vacation. The internship will take place both at business premises and remotely.

Bursary/wage: £2,500 Bursary

Role overview: As an intern you will be shadowing and supporting one of our project teams and will have the opportunity to get involved in data collection and analysis on some of our current research projects. Training will be provided to ensure you feel comfortable taking part in all tasks.

For more information and to apply, click on this link https://mycareer.ncl.ac.uk/leap/jobs.html?id=83292&service=Careers%20Service

Get in touch with us

If you have any queries regarding careers and employment, big or small, no matter what stage you’re at, you can get advice by submitting your query via MyCareer. You can also find details of all the internships we’re currently advertising on MyCareer by clicking on Vacancies; Search Vacancies and then typing NCL Internship into the Quick Search box.

Please visit www.ncl.ac.uk/careers to explore all we offer!

Google DeepMind Research Ready is a summer internship programme that aims to offer insights into AI research to those from backgrounds under-represented in this field. Run by the University of Cambridge Department of Computer Science and Technology, it involves a paid 8-week research internship taking place between 7 July and 29 August 2025. 

During this internship you will work with a researcher in our department on a project related to AI and be invited to talks from academics working on AI as well as information sessions covering topics like postgraduate applications.

The programme ran for the first time in 2024 and if you’d like to hear more about the experience from one of last year’s interns, please see this article.

Applications are currently open, and the deadline to apply is 09:00 on Monday 17 February 2025. You can find out more about the programme and apply here.

NCL Internships are open to all current Newcastle University students and provide a unique opportunity to gain valuable graduate level work experience alongside your course.

Opportunities are advertised throughout the year and you find all current vacancies on My Career by searching ‘NCL Internship’

The following NCL Internships are advertising on MyCareer right now:

Role title, company name: Sports Social Impact Data Intern, Newcastle Rugby Foundation

Student requirements: This internship is open to all Newcastle University students.

Closing date: 03/02/2025

Dates and times: This internship will take place for 50 hours between March and July 2025. You will undertake on average 4 hours per week, with hours flexible around your course. The internship will take place both at business premises and remotely.

Bursary/wage: £625 Bursary

Role overview: Newcastle Rugby Foundation needs to ensure we have a robust strategy to collect and interpret the data we collect from our participants to enable us to effectively evaluate our community programmes. We would like to improve our Theory of Change and ensure we are working effectively to achieve the goals, outcomes and challenges we are trying to address in our activities. We would like to learn further from evidence to inform improvements in activity design, implementation and management, and facilitate clarity in our vision for the future.

For more information and to apply, click on this link https://mycareer.ncl.ac.uk/leap/jobs.html?id=82132&service=Careers%20Service

Role title, company name: Child Language Transcriber Intern, Newcastle University

Student requirements: This internship is open to all Stage 2 and 3 Newcastle University students but would be most suited to those studying Linguistics/English Language, Speech Therapy, Psychology, or Computer Science.

Closing date: 31/01/2025

Dates and times: This internship is expected to be for a total of 94 hours. You will work up to 10 hours per week between February and June 2025. Working days and times are flexible.

Bursary/wage: £14.29 per hour including holiday pay

Role overview: The candidates will require knowledge of child development, preferably child language development, to transcribe recordings of an English-acquiring child, collected during COVID, for research purposes. The candidates will need to carefully transcribe audio recordings of child and parent speech orthographically (using English spelling conventions) according to CLAN conventions (to be taught on the job).

For more information and to apply, click on this link https://mycareer.ncl.ac.uk/leap/jobs.html?id=82358&service=Careers%20Service

Get in touch with us

If you have any queries regarding careers and employment, big or small, no matter what stage you’re at, you can get advice by submitting your query via MyCareer. You can also find details of all the internships we’re currently advertising on MyCareer by clicking on Vacancies; Search Vacancies and then typing NCL Internship into the Quick Search box.

Please visit www.ncl.ac.uk/careers to explore all we offer!