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If you have already completed the Exeter Award, you can develop your skills further and more specifically within Leadership and Management through the Exeter Leaders Award, using your Change Agents project experience as your case study.
Current Projects
Internship Projects Summer 2024
Our internship projects running in Summer 2024 will investigate student-led ideas in a variety of areas. You can read about each of these accepted projects in the pull-down menus below.
We are currently accepting applications to be an intern on one of these projects; during the interview phase, shortlisted candidates will be asked if they have a preference over which projects they will be matched to. To apply, visit the our advert on the CareerZone's Handshake page. The deadline for applications is Monday 27th May 2024.
This project seeks student-led recommendations into how student support services for Cornwall students, provided by a joint provider shared with Falmouth University, can be made more visible and more closely associated with the University of Exeter experience. This project will be based from the University's Cornwall campus.
This project aims to use student-curated content to improve the sense of community amongst St Luke’s students through communication and resources provided to them. This project will be based from the University's St Luke's Campus.
This projects aims to explore and research how and why Degree Apprenticeship engagement with student societies. Focusing for now on societies affiliated with the Guild, this research will help to understand how to improve student community and networking amongst those on non-traditional programmes, who are often also distance learners. This project will be based from the University's Streatham Campus, but can also be engaged with remotely.
In partnership with the Students' Guild, and as part of the University’s wider programme of work to review and reform its wellbeing and mental health support resources, this project seeks to ensure that the student voice is the centre of how our services are fit for purpose. This project will focus on work taking place across the University's campuses in Exeter, but can also be engaged with remotely.
This project feeds into its namesake’s wider programme of work. The team aims to use an intern to lead on how we co-create improvements to student communications by making it easier to find the information our students need, navigate what they must do, and to ensure they genuinely feel supported on their journey. This project can also be engaged with remotely.
This project seeks to explore new ways of understanding and supporting student success and attainment, focusing on its pilot work in HASS Cornwall. The team will use an intern to ensure its research into the links between attendance, engagement, and attainment, remains student-led and co-created, and draw up models of good practice that can be built on more widely across the University. This project will be based from the University's Cornwall Campus.
Funding Opportunities for Students 2024
In addition to our strategic internship projects, we also have an open fund available to student co-created proposals for projects. Projects are able to bid for up to a maximum of £2,000, which should be used to reimburse student hours worked towards the project. Further guidance about how to structure your project and write your proposal application accordingly is available on our funding page.
Our budget for the 2023/24 has now been allocated, so we are not currently accepting applications for funding. Our next call is expected to open in September 2024 for projects taking place in the new academic year.