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 neighborhood
- 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
The post-holder will work as part of the ongoing interdisciplinary art-science project on self-organisation in planetary rings, Ringmind (http://ringmind.org).
They will work primarily under the guidance of Principal Investigator Bronislaw Szerszynski (Sociology), but also draw on the expertise of Co-Investigator Leandro Soriano Marcolino (Computing and Communication).
They will use their computer coding skills to familiarise themselves with the main planetary-rings simulation code developed by the Ringmind project team, and to assist the Principal Investigator in developing new ideas for simulating planetary-ring dynamics, and visually rendering them.
Pay Rate: £11.44 per hour plus £1.38 holiday pay
Start Date: 14th February 2025
End Date: 15th April 2025