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Role & Department Overview

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 

This internship is offered as part of an exciting programme of work placement opportunities for UK undergraduate students who meet widening participation criteria. The internship will be supervised by Dr Lisa Ashmore in Lancaster Medical School. The opportunities is designed to give the appointee experience of work placement and contributing to university research.

In September 2022, the Gynae Narratives team launched their book aiming to improve experiences of radiotherapy for people having treatment for gynaecological cancer. The book has been shared widely amongst clinical teams and patients and the work has been the basis for a number of awards for the team. However, we do not have any data or evidence captured that helps us understand its reach.

In this micro internship, the successful candidate will work with the data collected when people ordered the book in order to understand who ordered it and their motivations for doing so. They will also be involved in designing a survey to send to readers who have agreed to be contacted to follow up how they have used or shared the book.

Working with the collected survey data, the intern will be encouraged to write a blog for dissemination about the reach and impacts of the Gynae Narratives book, including who ordered the book, how it has been used in practice to change care for people receiving treatment for gynaecological cancer and other reactions to it.

The intern will gain experience of working in an award winning, multi-professional team in the area of health and social care that will be transferable to future job applications.

Lancaster Medical School is part of Lancaster University and brings together expertise from medicine, health sciences and the social sciences to address some of the most pressing challenges facing health and healthcare systems.

Our work focuses on understanding how health, illness and care are shaped by social, organisational and policy contexts, with a strong emphasis on equity, lived experience and place-based insight. We work closely with NHS partners, policymakers, third-sector organisations and communi7es to ensure our research is grounded in real-world practice and patient needs.

Through applied, interdisciplinary research and policy engagement, Lancaster Medical School aims to support more equitable, sustainable and person-centred health and care systems locally, nationally and internationally.

 

Preferred Start Date: 1st June 2026
Expected End Date: 31st July 2026
Working Pattern: 3-4 Hours per week (Flexible)
Location: On the Lancaster University Campus or Remotely

Job Description

  • Collecting and sorting existing data
  • Survey design
  • Support in analytical work
  • Flag areas of under representation and raise ideas for improving reach of the project
  • Support in developing a report on the reach and impact of the project outputs
  • Draft, edit and format social media posts, press release and blog for the project
  • Other tasks as required by the research team.

Person Specification

  • A member of GROW Your Future
  • Ability to think and work logically and precisely with attention to detail
  • Good command of English language with ability to write clearly and concisely
  • Initiative and demonstrated ability to work within a team
  • Demonstrated interest in the project or the aims of the internship
  • Competence in using Microsoft Excel and Word with experience of using Qualtrics or aptitude to learn.

 

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:

  • Analysing
  • Collaboration
  • Exercising professional judgement
  • Research
  • Organisation
  • Teamwork
  • Time Management
  • Verbal communication
  • Written communication
  • 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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