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 (Embedded Systems Design for Environmental Monitoring), Newcastle University

Closing date: 01/05/2024

Duration: The internships are each expected to be for a total of 140 hours, working approximately 35 hours per week between 1 July and 26 July. Working hours will be as follows: Monday to Friday, 9.30 am – 5.30 am, with an hour break for lunch (7 working hours per day).

Bursary/wage: £13.76 per hour including holiday pay

For more information and to apply, visit MyCareer (link). https://mycareer.ncl.ac.uk/leap/jobs.html?id=66120&service=Careers%20Service

The interns will be given a real research problem to solve, namely hardware and software co-design for embedded systems used for environmental monitoring, such as smart water metering systems. They will work under the supervision of an academic in the School of Engineering (Dr Domenico Balsamo) and their research team at the Microsystems Research Lab. These internships are open to Newcastle University students from the School of Engineering only. The role is particularly suited to stage 2 or 3 undergraduates in Electrical and Electronic Engineering.

Innovation Lab “i-Lab” Pilot Student Participant, Newcastle University

Closing date: 24/04/2024

Duration: Students should expect to work approximately 20 hours per week over 12 weeks between June and August.

Bursary/wage: £13.76 per hour including holiday pay

For more information and to apply, visit MyCareer (link). https://mycareer.ncl.ac.uk/leap/jobs.html?id=66124&service=Careers%20Service

i-Lab is a dynamic, experiential learning opportunity that will introduce Newcastle University students to innovation and entrepreneurship methods with the aim of responding to a live real-world opportunity or challenge faced by an industry partner. Being part of an immersive experience such as i-Lab, will develop your entrepreneurial capabilities and insights, and will support you to be future ready whether that is as an entrepreneurial employee or an entrepreneur!

International Welcome Assistant, Newcastle University

Closing date: 28/04/2024

Duration: The internships are each expected to be for a total of 230 hours, working approximately 37.5 hours per week between August and September with the final week of the role potentially exceeding 40+ hours with a maximum of 48 hours for the week.

Bursary/wage: £13.76 per hour including holiday pay

For more information and to apply, visit MyCareer (link). https://mycareer.ncl.ac.uk/leap/jobs.html?id=66194&service=Careers%20Service

This year International Welcome will take place w/c 9th September. The programme consists of a 3-day airport ‘meet and greet’ service based at Newcastle airport and a 3-day programme of information sessions and exhibitors, including a help desk (usually Wed-Fri), on campus in the same week. The interns will be assisting the Student Life Unit with the final preparations for International Welcome as well as being hands-on and helping run it.

Manufacturing Engineer Intern, Rapid Fluidics

Closing date: 30/04/2024

Duration: This internship will run for 100 hours undertaken flexibly around your course with potential to extend beyond this. You will attend business premises in city centre.

Bursary/wage: £1,250 Bursary

For more information and to apply, visit MyCareer (link). https://mycareer.ncl.ac.uk/leap/jobs.html?id=66508&service=Careers%20Service

We’re looking for someone to help operate our 3D printers and produce prototype microfluidic devices for our customers. We’d like to work with someone who will enjoy the dynamic experience of working with a startup and can have a positive input into our operating procedures as we grow as a company.

Sales Engineer Intern, Rapid Fluidics

Closing date: 30/04/2024

Duration: This internship will run for 100 hours undertaken flexibly around your course with potential to extend beyond this. You will attend business premises in city centre.

Bursary/wage: £1,250 Bursary

For more information and to apply, visit MyCareer (link). https://mycareer.ncl.ac.uk/leap/jobs.html?id=66510&service=Careers%20Service

We’re looking for someone to help manage and process customer enquiries, orders and projects, working with the CEO and CBO (Chief Business Officer). We’d like to work with someone who will enjoy the dynamic experience of working with a startup and can have a positive input into our operating procedures as we grow as a company.

Web Designer, Newcastle University

Closing date: 06/05/2024

Duration: This internship is expected to be for a total of 100 hours, working approximately 18 hours per week between July and August. Working days and times are flexible; however, you will be expected to attend weekly check in meetings every Friday to review work and allocate work for the following week. 

Bursary/wage: £13.76 per hour including holiday pay

For more information and to apply, visit MyCareer (link). https://mycareer.ncl.ac.uk/leap/jobs.html?id=66632&service=Careers%20Service

The Health Economics Group (HEG) have a website which needs a revamp/redesign to make it more modern and accessible. The intern will work alongside colleagues from the HEG to revamp the website.

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!

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 Consultant Intern, Wavehill

Closing date: 22/04/2024

Duration: This internship will run for 200 hours undertaken flexibly around your course. You will attend business premises.

Bursary/wage: £2,500 Bursary

For more information and to apply, visit MyCareer (link). https://mycareer.ncl.ac.uk/leap/jobs.html?id=65984&service=Careers%20Service

Our interns will be involved in a range of projects at Wavehill, and this can be tailored to the local area and interests of the intern. At any time we can be working on upwards of 100 projects, providing lots of variety and opportunity to be involved with various tasks in the research process.

Elders Council Research and Impact Intern, The Elders Council

Closing date: 22/04/2024

Duration: This internship will run for 120 hours undertaken flexibly around your course. Summer June – Sep, flexible on average 10 hours per week. You will attend business premises as well as work remotely. Potential for the internship to develop further after the summer.

Bursary/wage: £1,500 Bursary

For more information and to apply, visit MyCareer (link). https://mycareer.ncl.ac.uk/leap/jobs.html?id=65838&service=Careers%20Service

We are seeking a student intern to undertake the role of Research Involvement and Impact Coordinator. Elders Council has always been actively involved in research into issues that are relevant and useful to our members. This has been done in a variety of ways including leading and designing our own research projects, responding to requests from academics for participants and representatives as well as having a role in shaping and advising research programmes.

Research Assistant (Dog Behaviour Coding), Newcastle University

Closing date: 31/03/2024

Duration: This internship is expected to be for a total of 60 hours, working approximately 10 hours per week between May and mid-June. Working days and times are flexible.

Bursary/wage: £13.58 per hour including holiday pay

For more information and to apply, visit MyCareer (link). https://mycareer.ncl.ac.uk/leap/jobs.html?id=66008&service=Careers%20Service

The intern will conduct behavioural coding of video data involving dogs responding to human interactions. This will likely be done in BORIS open-source software using a pre-developed ethogram focused on dog behaviour (tail wag, ear movement, head orientation, etc.). The data will be combined with other student project data to evaluate how dogs respond to interactions with strangers.

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!

With best wishes,

The NCL Internships Team

Careers Service

King’s Gate
Newcastle University
NE1 7RU

www.ncl.ac.uk/careers

SU Research Intern – Newcastle University Students’ Union (NUSU)

NUSU are looking to renew and refresh their strategy and services, and over the years, have become disconnected from the SU sector. The new CEO began work with NUSU in June 2023, and over the spring and summer of 2024, will be reviewing resourcing and priorities. This intern post is to assist this process by conducting research of other student unions, benchmarking NUSU activities and spending, by establishing a ‘peer group’ of similar SUs, and conducing online and interview research to compare our outcomes, processes and resourcing.

For more information and to apply, visit MyCareer (link). https://mycareer.ncl.ac.uk/leap/jobs.html?id=65796&service=Careers%20Service

Duration: This internship will take place for 50 hours over the summer vacation. You will attend business premises in Newcastle as well as working remotely. 

Bursary/wage: £625 Bursary

Closing date: 15/04/2024

Mobilising Marine Video Imagery for Public Engagement Intern – Berwickshire and Northumberland Marine Nature Partnership

The successful intern will work to catalogue the available video data and identify footage which is suitable for use in public engagement. They will also liaise with the University’s drone technician and dive teams over collection of new footage which will meet the outreach needs of the Berwickshire and Northumberland Marine Nature Partnership and other partners such as the LIFE WADER Project and Stronger Shores Project. As well the successful candidate must be an undergraduate or eligible to work full time over 8 weeks between June-September 2024.

For more information and to apply, visit MyCareer (link). https://mycareer.ncl.ac.uk/leap/jobs.html?id=65746&service=Careers%20Service

Duration: This internship will take place for 300 hours full time over the summer vacation. You will attend business premises

Bursary/wage: £3,750 Bursary

Closing date: 15/04/2024

Impact and Data Officer Intern, Search Newcastle

In Search we use a range of methods to measure our impact, some are “Manual” and on Spreadsheets, and some are captured on existing our database. We are looking at renewing our database/IT system in the coming months and we would like to look at how we measure the impact our services have on the people we support, and what elements of this we can capture in our new Database/IT system as possible.

For more information and to apply, visit MyCareer (link). https://mycareer.ncl.ac.uk/leap/jobs.html?id=65694&service=Careers%20Service

Duration: This internship will run for 50 hours undertaken flexibly around your course. You will attend business premises as well as work remotely

Bursary/wage: £625 Bursary

Closing date: 15/04/2024