Vacation Placements

National Physical Laboratory

The National Physical Laboratory (NPL) is one of the UK's leading science and research facilities. It is a world-leading centre of excellence in developing and applying the most accurate standards, science and technology available. Contact sally.williams@npl.co.uk for more information.

STEP

Shell STEP is a UK wide programme that offers undergraduates project based work in small to medium sized businesses.

Graduate Recruitment Bureau

Are you still looking for Placements or Work Experience for this Christmas, Easter, Summer or in years to come? Are you looking to have a graduate job lined up before you leave university? If you answered YES, the Graduate Recruitment Bureau are here to help. Thousands and thousands of UK students have benefited from the Graduate Recruitment Bureau's FREE and PERSONAL service available to ALL YEAR GROUPS at selected universities. This is your chance to be contacted by a large recruitment company and have them tell you about popular employers and the vacancies that are available. In order to receive this head-start over students at other universities, simply click the link above and fill in your details (for SBM reference code use 'SBMmm').

Oxford Physics UROP

Each year, our sub-departments run a programme of summer internships for undergraduate students. These internships give students a unique insight into a particular field of research and students have the opportunity to work alongside graduate students, postdocs and academics.

Imperial College London UROP

UROP is Imperial College’s highly active Undergraduate Research Opportunities Programme for students (from within & outside Imperial) who wish to develop an appreciation of research and the environment within which it takes place.

Vacation Placements elsewhere in the World

California Institute of Technology - USA

Caltech's Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowships program introduces students to research under the guidance of seasoned research mentors at Caltech and JPL. Students experience the process of research as a creative intellectual activity.
SURF (Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship)
LIGO

CERN - Switzerland

The CERN Summer Student Programme offers undergraduate students of physics, computing and engineering a unique opportunity to join in the day-to-day work of research teams participating in experiments at CERN in Geneva, Switzerland. Beyond the outstanding first-class scientific value of their stay, the selected students will find working in a multidisciplinary and multicultural environment an extremely enriching personal experience. It is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to make valuable and long lasting contacts with other students and scientists from all over Europe.

Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron - Germany

Each summer DESY offers undergraduate students in physics or related natural science disciplines the possibility to participate in the research activities of the laboratory.

The International Association for the Exchange of Students for Technical Experience - Worldwide

Aims: To provide students in higher education with technical experience relevant to their studies. To offer employers well-qualified and motivated trainees. To be a source of cultural enrichment for trainees and their host communities. MISSION: To operate a high quality practical training exchange programme between members in order to enhance technical and professional development and to promote international understanding and goodwill amongst students, academic institutions, employers and the wider community. IAESTE operates irrespective of race, colour, sex or creed.

RISE (Research Internships in Science and Engineering) - Germany

RISE is a summer internship program for undergraduate students from the United States, Canada and the UK in the fields of biology, chemistry, physics, earth sciences and engineering. It offers unique opportunities for undergraduate students to work with research groups at universities and top research institutions across Germany for a period of 2 to 3 months during the summer. RISE interns are matched with doctoral students whom they assist and who serve as their mentors. The working language will be English. All scholarship holders receive stipends from the DAAD to help cover living expenses, while partner universities and research institutes provide housing assistance.

HASCO (Hadron Collider School) - Germany

HASCO offers a summer school program for Bachelors, Masters and PhD students who wish to learn more about elementary particle physics. Students will be trained in state of the art data analysis techniques and physics through a combination of lectures and tutorials. Our very own chair Claudia Clarke attended the program and recommends it to everybody interested in the field.

Helen Edwards Summer Internship at Fermilab

The Helen Edwards Summer Internship program is a 10-week opportunity for students majoring in physics and engineering at universities in Europe. Interns work with Fermilab scientists and engineers at the frontier of scientific research in physics and particle accelerator technology.

Summer Internships at MPIA

The MPIA offers up to six positions for internships every year to bright bachelor and master students who desire to acquire hand-on experience of research and instrument development in astronomy, or wish to fullfil their degree's requirement. We encourage especially students from developing countries to apply, because at least two positions will be awarded to students from these countries.

University-of-Tokyo Research Internship Program

UTRIP is a program open to overseas students who are seriously thinking of pursuing a higher education in the fields of natural science and engineering at the University of Tokyo.

EPFL Excellence Research Internship Program

The EPFL Excellence Research Internship Program (ERIP) offers laboratory internships of three to four months to outstanding students.