Internship opportunities
There are four pathways which you can apply for, dependent on your skills and experiences:
- Stepping into research
- Growing in research
- Delivery leadership in research
- Clinician or practitioner academic leadership in research
What can I do in my internship?
It really depends on what you and your manager think would be the most benefit to you and your service.
- You could design and deliver a project within your department
- You could learn about clinical trials and how you could deliver research projects.
- You could shadow a research team to understand what they do and is this something that you would want to do in the future.
- You could get experience working with our and service users and Public and Engagement experts, to understand how we can use the opinions of patients and service users to shape future research projects.
- You could understand the importance of reaching underserved communities and how we can include them in the design and participation of research projects.
- You could work with the library services to understand how to use existing literature in your practice
- You could prepare for a fellowship application.
- You may want to start a journal club for your department or speciality.
- You may want to start a network to connect people from your profession or interest area.
- You could attend a networking event to find people like you who could help with your future career.
Here are some examples of what you may want to include in your internship.
- Fundamentals of research clinical training (good clinical practice, how to deliver research in the health and care setting etc)
- Ethical considerations
- Patient, Public, Participants, Inclusion, Engagement and Participation
- Service users’ engagement
- Inclusive research initiatives
- Developing a positive research culture
- Unconscious bias, allyship and inclusive communication
- The importance of networking and teamwork
- Placements within appropriate settings
- Communication skills
- Presentation skills
- Writing an abstract and presentation
- Developing a research question
- Fellowship application writing
- Mentorship
- Embedding research into clinical practice
- Knowledge exchange and mobilisation
- Innovation skills
- Specialist skillset development (e.g. working with children, in the mental health setting and end of life care)