Undergraduate Student Internship Programme

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The NIHR School for Primary Care Research (SPCR) Undergraduate Student Internship Programme provides students with experience in a research environment and access to a team of specialised mentors and supervisors. The aim of the programme is to provide undergraduate students the opportunity to gain primary care research experience, allow for greater collaboration and to raise the academic profile of general practice.

Projects

SPCR members are offering research opportunities for undergraduate students, from any degree based at a UK university, to take on a summer research internship. All internship projects are offered as virtual opportunities or in-person at the relevant university. More information on the projects can be found below:

Ensuring sustainable and equitable public involvement in primary care research	Queen Mary University of London
Carbon footprinting – informing greener ways of working in primary care	University of Oxford
How can we develop more environmentally sustainable medical devices? A systematic review of the carbon footprint of medical devices	University of Oxford
Programmer Analyst – Preventable Deaths in England & Wales	University of Oxford
The content of primary care telephone consultations	University of Bristol
Exploring general practice readiness for implementing a trauma-informed approach: a document analysis of health policies	University of Bristol
Co-producing an art-based resource for patients to disseminate findings from the ARAPAHO study which examines the impact of research activity in general practice settings	University College London
Community Pharmacy and General Practice collaborative and integrated working: a realist review	University College London
Knowledge accumulation in realist reviews	University College London
Summarising emerging evidence of potential associations of COVID-19 with a future diagnosis of inflammatory arthropathies: a rapid review	Keele University
Sedentary behaviours and physical activity in community living stroke survivors: A systematic review	Keele University
Antimicrobial resistance: a mapping and review of policy	University of Exeter
Spotting Cancer among Comorbidities (SPOCC): Who is disadvantaged in the cancer diagnostic pathway?	University of Exeter
Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on rural primary care	University of Exeter
Post pandemic: Primary Care- emerging themes	University of Nottingham
Using big data and Artificial Intelligence to understand the wider determinants of health in multimorbidity	University of Southampton
Systematic review of social media interventions to promote uptake of family planning	University of Southampton
Systematic review of interventions to prevent transmission of respiratory infections in care homes	University of Southampton
Systematic review of global health education for undergraduate medical students	University of Southampton

Why do an internship

Previous interns to the SPCR internship scheme have enjoyed the opportunity and identified several benefits from taking part:

Being in a research environment
Insights into different types of research such as interview analysis, working on both quantitative and qualitative studies and an understanding of how they work together to validate findings
Crystalising statistical and epidemiological knowledge
Learning how policy is developed, piloted and reviewed
Using fresh data sets, large data sets and statistical software
Developing skills in self management and proactively identifying projects
The opportunity to design and carry out a research study
To see how primary care researchers divide their time between clinical and academic work
Valuable insights into the world of academic research
Working on publications

I highly recommend the internship. Really grateful for all the support I continue to receive from my supervisors. They've encouraged me to push this project all the way to conference presentations and publications"

How To Apply

Each university arranges their own recruitment processes for the internship projects. Further information on how to apply can be found in each project description. Deadlines to apply are:

University of Nottingham: 27 April 2022
Queen Mary University of London: 29 April 2022
University of Bristol: 30 April 2022
University of Southampton: 30 April 2022
University of Oxford: 3 May 2022 (midday)
University of Exeter: 3 May 2022
Keele University: 3 May 2022
University College London: 5 May 2022