This micro internshipis for 30 hours in total (including 4 hours for training) and is aimed at students who have limited professional prior work experience and are looking for an opportunity that supports them to develop their employability skills.
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
- 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
As stated above, the GROW Your Future Micro Internship Scheme aims to support students with limited professional work experience, therefore priority will be given to students who meet this criteria. This includes students who may have already completed a GYF micro internship.
This internship offers an exciting opportunity to engage with academic research, to gain an insight into how it is done and the impact it has on society at large. You will work alongside Lancaster University’s Impact Development Manager to undertake a focussed review of impact evidence relating to a significant academic research project making a difference to people’s lives. Based in the Research and Enterprise Services (RES) Division of the University, you will join the Impact Development Team who support academic departments and faculties to build knowledge, expertise and awareness of impact, and support its embedding in research culture. The team also plays a key role in overseeing the development of impact case studies (ICS) for the Engagement and Impact element of the Research Excellence Framework (REF) exercise.
This is vitally important work for the University and is key to demonstrating its world-leading excellence in research and to securing future funding. As an intern, you will help with scoping, cataloguing and analysing evidence of the impact of CREST (the Centre for Research and Evidence on Security Threats) and liaise with the CREST team to acquire documents, data and other kinds of evidence they have available to support impact evaluation. During the internship you will have the opportunity to meet members of the CREST team and academic colleagues in the Department of Psychology to learn more about what it is like to undertake and lead research and achieve meaningful impact beyond academia.
Preferred Start Date: 16th March 2026
End Date: 4th May 2026
Location: Remotely (in the UK) and at the Lancaster University Campus