University of Reading

A Team meeting involving the other intern and our assigned mentor would be conducted in the morning to go over the operations that needed to be carried out in the day. We would work on these tasks as the day goes on (sometimes as a group) to complete thes...

Assisted with the Open and Visit Day events Managed the multiple social media channels the School has Edited and updated the websites and brochures I mentored student ambassadors which taught them how to copywrite.

Literature reviews, report writing (editing and producing several drafts of an abstract) for my project linking mindfulness, and various types of compassion and forgiveness (as well as mental wellbeing), producing a professional poster surrounding a coll...

Leasing with stakeholders. Dealing with issues from suppliers Contract management Tender formualtion

research assistant: carrying out the experiment individually and cooperatively for data collection and creating the questionnaires used in said experiments. Carrying out basic data analysis for fMRI data. A day followed like this: Interacting with partic...

Chatting with team about ideas Standardising assessments

Helping to oversee two research projects. One was a clinical intervention with the NHS Royal Berkshire hospital which involved a 12 week movement intervention of either physiotherapy, partnered or unpartnered tango dance with older adults (65+) that recen...

I helped recruit participants for a diary study. This involved making posters and handing them out. I also helped organise our filing system, and start summarising the data. Additionally I helped a PhD student with their coding of their data

• Attend weekly progress update meetings with my supervisor and PhD colleagues in which I also present summaries of relevant studies for our research (‘Journal Club’) • Work collaboratively with the Speech and Language Therapy department’s Social Communic...

Working with data from 13 datasets, looking at measures and filtering through the data points and picking out which ones aligned with our aims and hypotheses. Attending meetings and discussing these results. Presenting this data to lab groups. Writing up...

Emails Overseeing multiple projects Reporting progress to supervisor Creating handouts for projects

My job involved the use of an application called Canva, where i used it to create different templates of card designs to help raise money for a defibrillator. I would also look at fundraising templates and research ideas for fundraising money for school...

In order to increase the amount of internship opportunities for my cohort, that being students whose degree has an ecological, zoological, environmental, or biological focus, I contacted and liaised with companies in relevant industries and fields to crea...