Content Creation Internship - GROW Your Future Micro Internship
Closing Date: 29/01/2025

This micro internship is for 30 hours in total (including 4 hours for training) and is aimed at students who may not have had any professional prior work experience and are looking for an opportunity that supports them to develop their employability skills.

Eligibility

To apply for this micro internship, students must be part of GROW Your Future.

GROW Your Future is an opt-in scheme for UK undergraduates and postgraduate taught students who also meet specific Widening Participation criteria, e.g. students who are:

• first in their family to go to university;
• in receipt of a Lancaster Bursary;
• received free school meals or from a low participation neighbourhood
• over 21 when they start their first undergraduate degree;
• Black, Asian or Minority Ethnic;
• disabled (including learning disabilities, physical or mental health conditions);
• care leavers or have caring responsibilities, or estranged from family
• a refugee or asylum seeker, from a gypsy or Traveller community, or from a military family

For more information and to sign up see the following link GROW Your Future | ASK - Lancaster University

• Contact School of Design alumni to ask if they would like to be interviewed for short videos (staff working on the internship will identify relevant alumni).
• Conduct 6-7 short, online interviews with School of Design alumni (questions will explore what alumni learned when they were in the School of Design, their experiences and career journeys after university and any advice they would give to current students).
• Process and edit the interviews.
• Create content from the interviews, in the form of short videos, that could be uploaded and publicised on various, relevant media (e.g., blogs, websites, social media) with permission from the alumni.

• Interviewing skills (e.g., asking questions, listening to responses, asking follow-up questions).
• Communication skills (e.g., ability to contact alumni, following up interviews with additional questions).
• Basic video editing skills (e.g., removing extraneous sounds and pauses; creating shorter and longer versions for different media).
• Digital skills (e.g., uploading of videos onto blogs, websites and social media).
• Writing skills (e.g., writing short captions for social media posts).