{"id":1205,"date":"2017-03-28T12:34:20","date_gmt":"2017-03-28T12:34:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/beyondlec\/?p=1205"},"modified":"2017-03-28T14:13:09","modified_gmt":"2017-03-28T14:13:09","slug":"internship-case-studies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/beyondlec\/2017\/03\/28\/internship-case-studies\/","title":{"rendered":"Internship case studies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Internships represent a valuable opportunity to gain experience in a field directly relevant to your degree scheme.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/sci-tech\/\" target=\"_blank\">Faculty of Science and Technology <\/a>(FST) offer a range of full time 2-3 month summer <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/sci-tech\/fst-internships\/vacancies\/\" target=\"_blank\">internships<\/a> (July to September). These are\u00a0available to current students and recent FST graduates. There are also some part-time opportunities tailored around academic studies.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/sci-tech\/business\/internships\/case-studies\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"1210\" data-permalink=\"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/beyondlec\/2017\/03\/28\/internship-case-studies\/fst-physics4\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/beyondlec\/files\/2017\/03\/FST-Physics4.png?fit=275%2C158\" data-orig-size=\"275,158\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"FST-Physics4\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/beyondlec\/files\/2017\/03\/FST-Physics4.png?fit=275%2C158\" class=\"wp-image-1210 size-full aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/beyondlec\/files\/2017\/03\/FST-Physics4.png?resize=275%2C158\" width=\"275\" height=\"158\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A placement with a company could be what gives you the edge over other candidates for graduate jobs. Links to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/sci-tech\/business\/internships\/case-studies\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>real case studies<\/strong> <\/a>of FST students can be found <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/sci-tech\/business\/internships\/case-studies\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a><\/strong>. Example companies include <a href=\"http:\/\/www.intelligentturf.com\/main\/\" target=\"_blank\">Intelligent Turf<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/organisations\/environment-agency\/about\/recruitment#volunteering-opportunities\" target=\"_blank\">The Environment Agency <\/a>and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.btplc.com\/Careercentre\/earlycareers\/index.htm\" target=\"_blank\">BT<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/sci-tech\/business\/people\/pamela-pickles\" target=\"_blank\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"1206\" data-permalink=\"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/beyondlec\/2017\/03\/28\/internship-case-studies\/feature-pampickles\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/beyondlec\/files\/2017\/03\/Feature-PamPickles.png?fit=275%2C158\" data-orig-size=\"275,158\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Feature-PamPickles\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/beyondlec\/files\/2017\/03\/Feature-PamPickles.png?fit=275%2C158\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1206 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/beyondlec\/files\/2017\/03\/Feature-PamPickles.png?resize=275%2C158\" alt=\"Pam Pickles\" width=\"275\" height=\"158\" \/><\/a>You can find out more information and register your interest through the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/sci-tech\/business\/internships\/students\/\" target=\"_blank\">Science &amp; Technology Internship Programme<\/a> website. You can also contact\u00a0Student Employability Manager <strong>Pam Pickles<\/strong> (pictured) via<strong>\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"mailto:p.pickles@lancaster.ac.uk\">p.pickles@lancaster.ac.uk<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p class=\"excerpt\">Internships are invaluable in making you stand out from the crowd with relevant work experience and skills development to compliment your degree studies. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":654,"featured_media":1289,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":true,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[54],"tags":[51,57],"class_list":["post-1205","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-resources","tag-internship","tag-resources"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/beyondlec\/files\/2017\/03\/fst-e1490618245314.png?fit=480%2C89","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8rD16-jr","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/beyondlec\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1205","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/beyondlec\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/beyondlec\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/beyondlec\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/654"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/beyondlec\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1205"}],"version-history":[{"count":20,"href":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/beyondlec\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1205\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1293,"href":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/beyondlec\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1205\/revisions\/1293"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/beyondlec\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1289"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/beyondlec\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1205"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/beyondlec\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1205"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/beyondlec\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1205"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}