£12.21 per hour + £1.47 holiday pay
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Role & Department Overview

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

The Physics Department is in the process of revamping its web pages. In particular, this role is focused on the case studies on the business pages, which are unappealing, text heavy with a restrictive structure and out of date.

The role of this micro-internship is to assist in the creation of content, primarily text, but possibly including sourcing and/or selection of images, in cooperation with Prof Manus Hayne (Director of Business Engagement, Physics) and Ellen Greyling (Faculty of Science and Technology Engagement Team).

Pay Rate: £12.21 per hour plus £1.47 holiday pay
Start Date: 16th June 2025
End Date: 31st July 2025
Working Pattern: 30 hours total (flexible, discussed upon appointment)
Location: Remotely (in the UK) and on the Lancaster University campus

Job Description

  • Engaging with individual (stakeholder) academics as a primary source for obtaining material for case studies.
  • Preparing short and simple texts for case studies.
  • Ensuring approval of text by stakeholder academics, Manus Hayne and Ellen Greyling.

Person Specification

  • An outstanding standard of written English, especially the preparation of short texts intended for a general audience (essential).
  • An ability to critically evaluate text from the point of view of a preferred target audience (potential industrial collaborators) and modify it accordingly (essential).
  • Excellent attention to detail, ensuring that texts are factually correct (essential).
  • Excellent listening and note-taking skills (essential).
  • An ability to identify key points and ideas in a conversation and distil them into a short summary (essential).
  • An ability to cast technical details into terms that are accessible to a general audience (essential).
  • Excellent personal communication skills (essential).
  • Experience in (textual) web content creation, journalism or public engagement (desirable).

As this internship is aimed at students who do not have prior professional work experience, please draw upon examples from extra curricular activities, hobbies, interests, volunteering and part time work in your CV and cover letter.  

Please also outline in your CV and cover letter why you believe this micro internship will benefit you and your career progression.

Working in this role will help develop the following skills and experience:

  • Business Development
  • Creativity
  • Decisiveness
  • Excercising Professional Judgement
  • Flexibility
  • Integrity
  • Knowledge Sharing

You are required to submit a cover letter to support your application. Applications without a cover letter will not be considered.

Please note:Unless specified otherwise in the advert wording, this role is only open to individuals living in the UK.

Under the terms of this work, we endeavour to provide the advertised number of hours however,hours are not guaranteed and that work may cease if there is a fall in demand. 

Adverts that display a closing date should be treated as a guide. We reserve the right to close the vacancy once we have received sufficient applications, so we advise you to submit your application as early as possible to prevent disappointment.

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Help and advice on making applications can be found on the Lancaster University Careers pages. Visit www.lancaster.ac.uk/careers.

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