Eligibility
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
For more information and to sign up see the following link GROW Your Future | ASK - Lancaster University
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.
Role Overview
As part of its MEng undergraduate degree programmes, the School of Engineering delivers a core Level 7 module entitled “Industry linked group projects”. The module is 15 credits and supports the value of experiential learning with students working in teams on real-world problems. Students work on projects proposed, defined and guided by external organisations. These organisations vary and include businesses (small and large), third sector, local government and start-ups. For a number of years, we have asked participating external organisations to complete a feedback survey with a number of closed and open questions. These data go back to academic year 2020/21 but with a gap between 2022/23 and 2023/24 where we had a joint project with the Law School.
We have a need for a GROW Your Future intern to analyse this data. By the time the internship starts, we would expect to have approximately 60 responses. Data analysis would include identification of patterns over time as well as common themes and any differences. Highlighting the strengths of this form of engagement between external organisations and students is an important output, as is the identification of areas where improvements can be made. This is an especially important time, because of how these findings can contribute to the development of this part of our teaching and engagement post Curriculum Transformation Programme (CTP) implementation, which will happen in 2026/27. In order to support future recruitment of projects form external organisations, generating graphics to communicate findings would be expected, such as simple graphs, quotes or infographics.
Please note that the start and end date for this internship are flexible and the hiring manger will work with the successful student to agree on on a working schedule that fits around any other commitments they may have (e.g. exams and deadlines).
Pay Rate: £12.21 per hour plus £1.47 holiday pay
Start Date: 18th May 2026
End Date: 31st July 2026