Bitesize Careers for Biomedical and Human Biology

• Any year:
  • Discover Future-Ready Skills Award (previously DegreePlus)
  • Find out more about global opportunities
  • Interested in medicine or dentistry? - get some relevant experience to boost your application through the Trusts. Belfast, Northern, Southern, Western, South Easter
  • Find other voluntary work through Volunteer SU, Volunteer Now 
  • Organisations such as BUNAC, CCUSA, Camp America and Projects Abroad advertise a variety of paid and voluntary vacation-time opportunities throughout the world. 
  • Interested in teaching?  The British Council lists lots of opportunities to work and volunteer abroad as an English Language assistant/teacher.
  • Participate in Future-Ready Skills for Leaders Programme
  • Attend Careers fairs and employer events.  These happen all year round and will be advertised on MyFuture
• Level 1:
  • Look for summer work – a number of summer internships will be advertised on MyFuture after Easter.
  • The Amgen Scholars Europe programme - summer research experience in Europe for students interested in progressing to PhD and a career in Research
  • Interested in Teaching? Teach First run a Taster Programme for Level 1 students
  • Interested in Professional Services or Banking and Finance? Some companies run Insight” schemes for first year students  e.g. Deloitte, EY, EY Belfast, PwC, Citi
  • Plus above opportunities for any year.
• Level 2 / Penultimate Year:

  Look for relevant work experience:

  Internship opportunities related to Biomedical Science and Human Biology

  • Cancer Research provides some summer placement opportunities for undergraduates with their Beatson Institute and the Francis Crick Institute - Applications usually open around January-March.
  • IAESTE - paid work experience abroad for students of Science, Technology and Applied Arts in 2^nd year and above. Placements related to degree programme. Application deadline is in autumn.
  • The Amgen Scholars Europe programme - summer research experience in Europe for students interested in progressing to PhD and a career in Research
  • School of Medicine, Dentistry and Biomedical Science Optional USA Placement Programme for Biomedical Science/ Human Biology students
  • School of Medicine, Dentistry and Biomedical Science Summer Studentships
  • Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute Summer Placements and Wellcome Trust Vacation Scholarships provide ‘promising’ undergraduates with ‘hands-on’ research experience during the summer vacation – to encourage them to consider a career in research.  Applicants must be in the middle year of a science degree
  • Some large pharma companies run year-long placements and summer internships. Locally these include Randox and Almac. See the ABPI Careers website for other opportunities.
  • The Royal Society of Biology list some long term and short term student placement/internship opportunities.

  Sources of funding for research projects

  • The British Society for Antimicrobial Chemotherapy - Vacation scholarships for undergraduates. 
  • British Society for Cell Biology - funding for undergraduate students to gain research experience in cell biology.
  • British Society for Parasitology - grants for PhD students and recent graduates to undertake international fieldwork or visit overseas institutions. 
  • The Genetics Society - grants to support undergraduate summer research experience or research projects. 
  • The Pathological Society - funding for undergraduate students to support a summer research project. 
  • The Physiological Society - funding for undergraduate students to undertake a summer research project. A
  • The Society for General Microbiology  - funding for undergraduates to support a summer research project.
  • Society for Reproduction and Fertility - funding for undergraduate students to undertake a summer research project. 
  • Society for Endocrinology - funding for undergraduate students to undertake a summer research project

  Internship opportunities related to areas other than Biomedical Science and Human Biology

  • Large companies in other sectors may offer year-long placements and summer internships to students of any degree discipline. MyFuture, Ratemyplacement, Prospects, Targetjobs and Gradcracker are useful sites for finding these. Many of the deadlines are set around December so it’s best to start applying in autumn.
  • Interested in Teaching? Teach First run an Insight Programme for Level 2 / Penultimate year students
  • Interested in Professional Services, Banking and Finance? A lot of the big companies run summer internship and year long placement programmes. Deloitte, EY, EY Belfast, PwC, Citi
  • Plus above opportunities for any year.
• Level 3 / Final Year UG:
  • Apply early for graduate schemes and / or postgraduate study.
  • Are you clear about which career option you want to follow?  Participate in the Alumni Career Mentoring Scheme.
  • Plus above opportunities for any year.
• PGT:
  • Apply early for graduate schemes
  • Are you clear about which career option you want to follow?  Participate in the Alumni Career Mentoring Scheme.
  • Plus above opportunities for any year.

• PGR:
  • Discover Careers support for PGR students
  • Are you clear about which career option you want to follow?  Participate in the Alumni Career Mentoring Scheme.
  • Plus above opportunities for any year.