New On-Campus Internships Blog

Welcome to the Learning and Teaching Academy’s On-campus Internship Blog.

The On-Campus Internships (OCI) scheme has been running since 2008. At its inception it was called the Cardiff Undergraduate Research Opportunities Programme (CUROP) and had only 15 placement opportunities. Since 2008 the scheme has grown and now offers around 150 placements per summer to undergraduate students. Overall, the scheme has enabled over 1850 students to undertake a placement opportunity, with a financial investment of over £2m.

The scheme

The scheme gives students valuable work experience, as well as the chance to sample postgraduate research, enabling them to examine whether they should progress to postgraduate study. For staff, the scheme provides an opportunity to receive valuable additional resource to work on their research during the summer, and a chance to have the student perspective feed into their projects.

Our blog

Here on the Learning and Teaching Academy Blog, we will be sharing information about our scheme, including snippets of projects that have taken place, case studies from students and staff about their experiences, and information about what you can expect when taking part.

Contact

If you have any questions, please get in touch with us at the Learning and Teaching Academy: LTASummerPlacements@cardiff.ac.uk