We can offer all MBChB students (who meet the criteria below) the opportunity to apply for one of nine available research internships at EHU this summer (2025). This has been funded by NIHR’s Integrated Academic Training (IAT) Programme. If you want to know more about these offers, please contact the ICATO team.
About the internship placements
The internship placements will be four weeks in length, and interns will receive a stipend payment of £1,820 part way through the internship.
The 2025 summer internships will take place over 4 weeks between Monday 4th August – Friday 29th August.
An internship assessment group will consider applications on a case by case basis.
To be eligible for consideration for an internship placement, you should:
- Be an Edge Hill University MBChB student.
- Have no outstanding professional concerns.
- Have passed all summative assessments in the current academic year.
Application forms will be available for download from the open date.
Timeline for applications
The timeline for 2025 internship recruitment is as follows:
- 24th February – Open date for applications
- 31st March (23:59pm) – Closing date for applications
- w/c 31st March – applications assessed & shortlisted for interview; letters sent to applicants
- w/c 7th April – Interviews scheduled (except for Y2, interviews on Friday 4th April)
- w/c 14th April – Decision letters sent out
Internship projects
Each 4-week internship will have a defined work plan of what is to be achieved. Although some projects will be standalone pieces of work, others will be parts of wider, more long-term studies. As long as related contributions meet journal guidelines, co-authorship may be appropriate on future publications. These discussions should be held with the named supervisor.
The available project areas for 2025 are as follows:
| Project title/Research area | Supervisor |
|---|---|
| Identifying and exploring low value care practices in paediatric critical care (a number of projects available) | Professor Lyvonne Tume |
| Children undergoing clinical procedures and interventions: international programme of work focussing on children undergoing clinical procedures and interventions. Skills would involve the synthesis of data and engaging with reviewing existing evidence. | Professor Lucy Bray |
| GREENME: https://greenme-project.eu/ Collecting qualitative interview data from people with stress who have experienced nature based interventions as a structured therapy. The work would include data analysis, use of AI, reporting and writing a paper for publication. | Professor Michelle Howarth |
| Origin Study: A randomised control trial comparing functional recovery after custom of standard total knee replacement | Dr Ben Langley |
| Exploring the validity and reliability of Markerless Motion Capture using the myRecovery Deep Vision Platform | Dr Ben Langley |
| A psychological-informed framework for promoting HealthTech innovation | Professor Linda Kaye |
| How does prior knowledge facilitate new learning and memory in elderly populations? A systematic review | Dr Dorothy Tse |
| The role of insular cortex in hypothalamic obesity and the value of automated and manual measures from structural MR images in predicting weight-based outcome measures | Dr Joanne Powell |
| The impact of alcohol on emotional contagion: A systematic review with meta analysis | Professor Rebecca Monk |
| Conduct a rapid review on dealing with limited resources and funding in medical education while trying to maintain high standards of education and training. | Professor John Sandars |
| A review of the literature regarding the knowledge and skills of health professionals in giving weaning/complementary feeding advice | Dr Julie Abayomi |
| Content analysis of online parenting support websites (e.g. MumsNet) regarding weaning/complementary feeding advice | Dr Julie Abayomi |
| Design for a prospective randomised trial comparing activity restriction versus no activity restriction following elbow replacement surgery | Professor Adam Watts |
| Clinical outcome of ligament reconstruction with synthetic grafts around the elbow. A service evaluation case series study. | Professor Adam Watts |
| The use of social prescribing in GP surgeries in England | Dr Nicola Relph |
| NIHR CYP Mental Health Leadership award – Community Asset Based Interventions (population health work and working with local charities e.g. Everton n the Community, Saints Foundation) | Professor Greg Irving |
| NIHR Multiple Long Term Conditions studies – looking at health and social care health inequalities | Professor Greg Irving |
| Health Air for Health Lungs – Population health study looking at indoor air quality and CYP respiratory disease prevention | Professor Greg Irving |
| Insight study – collaboration with Imperial College looking at Digital First Approaches in Primary Care | Professor Greg Irving |
| NIHR Research Delivery Network – focusing on General Practice Research Delivery | Professor Greg Irving |
| Assessing Aortic Stenosis in Secondary Care – Significant Workload for Hospital Echocardiography Departments | Professor Gershan Davis |
| Digital Health research: use of text mining/natural language processing to extract relevant information for medical literature, or some predictive analytics to identify trends | Professor Marcello Trovati |
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