GOVERNMENT SOCIAL RESEARCH SERVICE: 6-12 WEEK SUMMER STUDENT PLACEMENTS 2017

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Dear Careers Adviser

GOVERNMENT SOCIAL RESEARCH SERVICE: 6-12 WEEK SUMMER STUDENT PLACEMENTS 2017

The Government Social Research Service (GSR) is running a scheme of summer student placements in 2017 for students undertaking a social science degree with a substantial social research component*. Applicants should be on course for, or have recently attained, a 2:1 or 1^st class degree. The scheme is not open to first year undergraduates or to second year undergraduates at Scottish universities. Students who are graduating this summer will only be eligible if they are going on to do a further degree in the autumn.

The placements will last for 6-12 weeks and will be paid: all details, including the application form with details of participating Departments, application guidance and job descriptions, are on our website (www.gov.uk/government/publications/how-to-apply-for-a-government-social-research-summer-student-placement ).

 

The opening date for receipt of applications is Thursday 23 February at 10.00am.  Applications received before that time will not be accepted.  The scheme will close as soon as we receive sufficient applications. It is therefore in all students’ interests to submit their applications as soon as possible after the opening date/time.  Students who are invited to interview will be required to provide a reference from their tutor confirming their suitability for a placement.

Please would you advertise this opportunity on your careers website and forward it to any tutors within your social science department who could bring it to the attention of their students.

*To be considered as including a substantial research methods component, applicants’ degree courses should include tuition on some or all of the following: research design, collection and analysis of quantitative and qualitative data, reporting research results, understanding of the uses, strengths and limitations of various methods, interpretation of quantitative and qualitative data. Students are not required to have undertaken research themselves as part of their degree course, but they should have gained an understanding of the principles and skills needed to design and conduct social research and to be able to critically evaluate research the methods, strategies and data used by social scientists.

 

Kind Regards,

Yasmine Thomson

Yasmine Thomson | Business Support Apprentice | Economics | HM Treasury, 1^st Floor (Blue) | 1 Horse Guards Road, London, SW1A 2HQ | Tel: 02072701914 | Email: Yasmine.Thomson@hmtreasury.gsi.gov.uk 

 

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