NIHR Undergraduate Research Internship

About the Role

This internship will offer paid experience of working in a multidisciplinary applied health research environment, giving interns the opportunity to acquire knowledge, skills and networking opportunities that could help them to pursue a career in research.

Successful candidates will contribute to a specific research project within the Centre for Evaluation & Methods.  Duties may cover any aspect of the research process (see job description).

About You

We are seeking students who are interested in exploring a future career in applied health research, particularly in any aspect of clinical trials delivery (including medical statistics).  Interns do not need any research experience but should be studying for a degree relevant to the internships’ area of focus and should not have completed their final year of undergraduate study.

About the School/Department/Institute/Project

The Centre for Evaluation and Methods is an inter-disciplinary research and teaching hub devoted to excellence in the evaluation of healthcare innovations and quality improvement programmes, and  methods needed to support these evaluations. The interns will work across the Methodology Research Unit (MRU) and the Pragmatic Clinical Trials Unit (PCTU) in CEM. The PCTU works at the forefront of the science and execution of pragmatic clinical trials – trials of interventions as they would be delivered in practice by health services. The MRU hosts a variety of activities aimed at improving the quality and integrity of health research through a better understanding of research methods. In particular, the MRU hosts the QMUL arm of the NIHR Research Support Service (RSS) Hub at Imperial & Partners, which provides researchers  free access to support, advice and expertise to help them develop high quality proposals for funded health research. Between them, these two Units bring together staff from a diverse range of disciplines, including expertise in medical statistics, trial management, qualitative research, and patient and public involvement in research.

About Queen Mary

At Queen Mary University of London, we believe that a diversity of ideas helps us achieve the previously unthinkable.

Throughout our history, we’ve fostered social justice and improved lives through academic excellence. And we continue to live and breathe this spirit today, not because it’s simply ‘the right thing to do’ but for what it helps us achieve and the intellectual brilliance it delivers.

We continue to embrace diversity of thought and opinion in everything we do, in the belief that when views collide, disciplines interact, and perspectives intersect, truly original thought takes form.

Benefits

The post will be based at the Whitechapel Campus in London. It is full time (35 hours per week), for 8 weeks at an hourly rate of £28.47, with an expected start date of 7th July 2025.

We offer competitive salaries, access to a generous pension scheme, 30 days’ leave per annum (pro-rata for part-time/fixed-term), a season ticket loan scheme and access to a comprehensive range of personal and professional development opportunities. In addition, we offer a range of work life balance and family friendly, inclusive employment policies, flexible working arrangements, and campus facilities.

Queen Mary’s commitment to our diverse and inclusive community is embedded in our appointments processes. Reasonable adjustments will be made at each stage of the recruitment process for any candidate with a disability. We are open to considering applications from candidates wishing to work flexibly.

Closing Date: 18/06/2025, 23:55

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