A Lancaster University geography student has been highly commended in the world’s leading undergraduate awards for her essay on the commodification of the female body in the Bangkok sex trade. Catherine Purkiss was looking for an ‘outside the box’ idea for an essay in her final year module on Cities and Globalisation. ‘We were given a […]

Lauren Hart (BA Geography and MSc Environmental Management Graduate) has recently completed her second three-month paid internship with local environmental and sustainability consultancy firm Crowberry Consulting. The internship was through the Lancaster University Science and Technology Internship Scheme which offers paid internships exclusively for current students and recent graduates of the Faculty of Science and […]

Ben Ireland (BSc. Hons. Earth and Environmental Science graduate and current M.Sc. Volcanology student) describes his experience on an internship with local SME Lancashire Environmental Services over the summer of 2020. This project was part-funded by the European Regional Development Fund through the Centre for Global Eco-Innovation: “I began my internship with Lancashire Environmental Services […]

Over Summer 2019, Chris Breeze (currently a 4th year MSci Environmental Science student) volunteered with Wildlife Sense, a conservation and research organisation. Here, he describes his experiences. “I recently completed my third stint as a sea turtle conservation volunteer, this time as a field researcher for Wildlife Sense based in Kefalonia, Greece. This was a […]

Andrew Harris (BSc Environmental Science Graduate) recently completed a three-month summer internship with United Utilities at their head office in Warrington. After graduating from Lancaster in Summer 2018, I began my internship at United Utilities, which is the largest UK water company that provides water and wastewater services in the North West. I became interested […]

Laura Heathcote (MSci Natural Sciences, 3rd year) recently completed the second of her summer internships with EDF Energy Nuclear Generation. Here, she writes about her experiences on this programme. My first internship (Summer 2017) was at EDF’s main office in Barnwood; the second (Summer 2018) was at Dungeness B Nuclear Power Station in Kent. I […]

Emma Harris (BSc Earth and Environmental Science) spent a month of her summer 2018 as an intern in Tenerife monitoring CO2 on Teide Volcano, with a company called INVOLCAN in partnership with GeoTenerife. Here, she talks about her experience. I worked on the North West Rift Zone (NWRZ) of the Teide Volcano using a machine that […]

This summer, Emily Christopherson, who has just completed her second year studying BSc Geography, undertook a 6-week placement with JBA Consulting at their Warrington office, where her work involved completing projects for the JBA Trust. Here, she writes about this experience: I gained valuable experience in researching Natural Flood Management (NFM) schemes in the UK and updated […]