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NCL Internships

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:

Research Assistant (Synthesis and characterisation of bio-synthetic materials) – Newcastle University

Closing date: 13/02/2024

Duration: This internship is expected to be for a total of 60 hours, working approximately 20 hours per week between March and April. Working days and times are flexible.

Bursary/wage: £13.76 per hour

For more information and to apply, visit MyCareer (link). https://mycareer.ncl.ac.uk/leap/jobs.html?id=63408&service=Careers%20Service

Biosynthetic materials span the intersection of materials science, chemistry, and bioengineering. As an intern familiarising yourself with hydrogels, you acquire a unique blend of skills that sets you apart from your peers. This multidisciplinary expertise not only makes you adaptable but also positions you as a well-rounded professional ready to tackle the complex challenges of modern biomedical applications. Mastery of hydrogel formulation and characterisation techniques in this project equips you with a level of precision that is highly sought after in the industry. Your ability to craft hydrogels with tailored properties and analyse their intricacies places you at the forefront of materials engineering, making you a competitive candidate for research and development roles.

Customer Technology Engineer Intern – Perro

Closing date: 19/02/2024

Duration: This internship will run for 50 hours undertaken flexibly around your course on a remote basis.

Bursary/wage: £625 Bursary

For more information and to apply, visit MyCareer (link). https://mycareer.ncl.ac.uk/leap/jobs.html?id=63654&service=Careers%20Service

An intern will be involved in leveraging customer interaction and query handling as a source of user experience research, to build insights into our product roadmap. Analysing and diagnosing customer software issues, and documenting and designing future-proofing strategies for the company’s product architecture.

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!

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Postgraduate Teaching Assistant opportunities

Are you looking for the next step after your degree?

Are you interested in a career in academia?

Do you want to do your own research and gain teaching experience within the School of Computing?

Then our Postgraduate Teaching Assistant opportunity could be for you!

We are seeking enthusiastic and inspiring individuals to undertake a PhD in the School of Computing (with the fee waived) whilst holding a fixed term post teaching on our Computer Science degrees.

Full details are available on the job advert; interested applicants should act now as this post will close on 12th February.  

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Student Work Opportunity- Animator


Role details and responsibilities: We are looking for a student to create a schematic animation of the temporomandibular joint and its articular disc to help patients understand disc displacement on a patient-based video the Dental school is currently producing. The animation would need to involve the following 3 stages:


1) Normal disc movement – disc moving synchronously with the hinge
2) Disc displacement – discs moving out of position between hinge and translation motions
3) Disc displacement without reduction – as (2) above but the disc doesn’t move back and the joint can only hinge and not translate


Diagrams of the type of disc movement required in the animation can be found on the following pages:


Disc Displacement with Reduction
Schematic Representation of Disc Movement


Dates and times: 05/02/2024 – 18/02/2024 (max 20 hours per week)
Skills required: To be eligible to apply you must be a registered Newcastle University student throughout the 2023/24 academic year.


Essential Skills:
• Animation / previous experience creating animations.


Desirable Skills:
• Knowledge of temporomandibular joint and articular disc
• Initiative
• Time management
• Organisation and planning
• Attention to detail
• Problem solving


Hourly rate of pay: £13.76


Location: Remote
Number of students required: 1


Work done as part of this role can count towards an NCL+ Award which can help you reflect on the skills you have gained and how to use them when applying for jobs in the future; to find out more visit https://nusu.co.uk/skills/nclaward.


How to apply: Email jobsoc@ncl.ac.uk quoting the role title and explaining how you meet the role criteria. Please also provide any examples you may have of creating animations in the past


Closing date for applications: Tuesday 30th of January

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Stage 1 Internship Opportunity

Job Title: Student Learning Analytics Project Support
Location: Newcastle University. Work will take place mostly on campus with the potential for some blended working dependent on the task
Pay Rate: £13.44 per hour per hour including holiday pay
Advertising Dates: 15 January – 28 January
Role Overview/Background:
This casual work opportunity is being offered by the Learning and Teaching Development Service at Newcastle University and is being facilitated by the Jobs on Campus team in the Careers Service.
This role is expected to be for a total of 10 – 20 hours, approximately 2 hours per week between February and May. Working days and times are flexible.
The role is open to Undergraduate Stage 1 Newcastle University students from the School of Psychology, School of Pharmacy, School of Biomedical, Nutritional, and Sport Sciences, School of Maths, Statistics and Physics (MSP), School of Computing, School of Engineering, School of Natural and Environmental Sciences, School of Geography, Politics and Sociology (GPS), Business School, Law School.
The university will soon be implementing a learning analytics solution supplied by Jisc
(https://www.jisc.ac.uk). The purpose of the learning analytics system is to collate meaningful student data from existing university systems for personal tutors to support tutoring conversations, and ensure students receive support when needed. A casual work opportunity is available as part of the Student Learning Analytics Project Team in the Learning Teaching and Development Service (LTDS) based in the Marjorie Robinson Library. The purpose of the role is to create innovative ways of communicating the use and benefits of the system with students.
The output from this role will form the foundation for ongoing communication with the student body regarding the system ensuring co-creation and student voice are embedded in the roll-out; enabling students to understand how the system can be used. Communicating the use and benefits will require consultation with students to determine the best way for them to engage with the system before producing the promotional material. More information on the Student Learning Analytics project is available on our project page. https://www.ncl.ac.uk/learning-and-teaching/effective-practice/learning-analytics/
The successful candidate will provide a student perspective and support the Project Team to develop communications approach to Student Learning Analytic System as we move to institution-wide roll out.
Key duties/tasks:
-Support delivery of focus groups
-Facilitation as part of a team
-Assisting with event organisation
-Arrange/host pop-ups to collect feedback from students.
-Market research
-Contribute to the evaluation of materials for student engagement
-Contribute to the design of materials for student engagement by offering a student perspective
-Support with additional tasks as part of the project, as required.
Person Requirements
Essential Skills/Attributes:
-Initiative
-Time management
-Organisation and planning
-Attention to detail
-Problem solving
-Teamwork
-Communication skills
-Able to respond to changing circumstances and information
Desired Skills/Attributes:
-Marketing experience
Degree discipline
To be eligible to apply you must be a Newcastle University undergraduate/postgraduate student registered on a programme of study throughout the 2023-24 academic year. For full details of eligibility see the Working on Campus website.

Undergraduate Year 1 Students from the following schools are welcome to apply: School of Psychology, School of Pharmacy, School of Biomedical, Nutritional, and Sport Sciences, School of Maths, Statistics and Physics (MSP), School of Computing, School of Engineering, School of Natural and Environmental Sciences, School of Geography, Politics and Sociology (GPS), Business School, Law School.
Work done as part of this role can count towards an NCL+ Award which can help you reflect on the skills you have gained and how to use them when applying for jobs in the future; to find out more visit https://nusu.co.uk/skills/nclaward.
Newcastle University is committed to being a fully inclusive Global University which actively
recruits, supports and retains staff from all sectors of society. We value diversity as well as
celebrate, support and thrive on the contributions of all our employees and the community they represent. We are proud to be an equal opportunities employer and encourage applications from everybody, regardless of race, sex, ethnicity, religion, nationality, sexual orientation, age, disability, gender identity, marital status/civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, as well as being open to flexible working practices.
How to Apply
Apply online via the following link: JobsOC: Student Learning Analytics Project Support (office.com)
Interviews will take place in person the w/c 12 February.
For further information about the role contact Sam Flowers, Learning Enhancement and
Technology Adviser, learning.analytics@newcastle.ac.uk