As a Student Research Assistant聽you will be able to work with BU academics聽on their research projects, developing your research skills and聽knowledge of your discipline,聽and enhancing聽your CV.
We鈥檙e currently recruiting to our summer programme, so the work you do will聽fit it in alongside your studies. It's paid work, for a maximum of 120 hours over four聽weeks from May聽2017. You'll be able to find details of all vacancies in .
This is a great opportunity to work under the guidance of an experienced academic in a research position that's directly related to your career path and/or academic discipline. You'll assist academic staff with their research,聽gain聽research experience to apply to your own work, as well as work towards writing a publication with your academic supervisor.
Vacancies are open to all undergraduate and postgradaute-taught students from all faculties, who have grades of over 70%.
I would highly recommend the programme聽to any student who would like to try something new, or who is interested in a project that is relevant to their degree as not only is the experience vital, but it may influence their future career choices" 聽
Eddie McCarthy, BSc (Hons) Environmental Science student
Typical duties include:
Performing experiments and analysing the results
Disseminating new knowledge orally or in written outputs
Literature searches
Presenting results at conferences
Providing general research support to academics.
Read Louise's about her experiences of being a Student Research Assistant this June.
Applications for the spring positions聽close 23聽April 2017聽- please email the聽Student Research Assistant聽inbox聽if you have any questions.
