Each year we offer summer placements on a competitive basis for undergraduates to work within our research groups. The placements are open to all physics students who are not currently in their final year. Priority is given to pen-ultimate year students (3rd years on MSci and 2nd years on BSc) but it is open to 1st years and 2nd year MSci students as well. When allocating the placement we will look at your academic performance, attendance and CV. The project supervisor will form part of the decision making process so we advise that you discuss projects that you are interested in directly with the supervisor.

This year we have registered the summer placement as a course (PH2000P), successfully completing it will appear on your academic transcript.

Assessment of the course: we will require you to submit a self-reflective 500-1000 word document describing in what ways the summer placement process has prepared you for research. (This will be awarded a pass or fail)
In addition it is a requirement that an A1 pdf poster is produced detailing the research outcomes of the placement. The poster will be presented in a session in the Autumn term.

If you accept a summer placement you will agree to be available for any physics outreach events that occur during your placement (Open days, schools summer programmes etc), this is typically one or two days during a 6 week placement.

Award: TBD

Application Deadline: TBD

Application email to  a.casey@rhul.ac.uk,
Subject: Summer Placement 2023 Application.
Containing: Ranked list of placements that you wish to apply for.
Specify the duration 3/6 weeks if it is optional for your chosen placement.
Attach a current CV (targeted at the summer placement scheme)

Successful applicants will be told in the first week of the summer term, a period of typically 2 weeks is given for you to accept. If the student who is first allocated the project does not accept we offer to the next eligible student until we allocate all available funds.

The current list of project titles is given below, this list is continuously being updated and will appear on our website soon (a link will be sent when it is online). If you have an idea for a summer placement, or would like to work with an academic that is not currently in the list discuss ask them to submit the project details to me and it will be added to the list of available projects (sometimes academics are happy to run summer projects if a keen student approaches them).