GRIP: Research internships
Develop your research skills and your CV over the summer.
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GRIP is a programme that gives undergraduates six weeks experience working on an academic research project during the summer between their second and final year.
Opportunities are available in a range of departments, and you’ll have the chance to work alongside academic staff on innovative projects that really contribute to Goldsmiths' research.
When and where
The programme runs from the beginning of June to the end of July and working hours are 20 per week. Start and finish dates may vary. Check the individual opportunity for details.
Internships take place using a hybrid working model for flexibility, meaning you can work both remotely and on campus.
Payment
Payment is via a bursary of £1662 for six weeks, paid in two instalments at the end of June and the end of July.
2025 Applications are now open.
See below for an overview of projects.
If you have any questions about GRIP, please get in touch with Sabrina Duggan, GRIP Project Manager, on s.duggan (@gold.ac.uk).
Students share their experience of the Goldsmiths Research Internship programme
Projects
Are you interested in educational research, data analysis, and creative communication? This internship offers the chance to explore how different types of schools—primary, secondary, and SEND (special educational needs and disabilities)—engage with the Goldsmiths Artsmark learning programme.
As an intern, you’ll work with real-world school participation data to identify patterns in engagement across different regions and school settings. You’ll develop visual summaries (such as charts, maps, or infographics) to help illustrate these trends. You’ll also have the opportunity to conduct a small number of short interviews with school leaders to explore barriers to participation and help shape future outreach strategies.
This is a valuable opportunity to gain practical experience in data analysis, research communication, and stakeholder engagement, while contributing to a project that supports equitable access to creative education.
Are you a designer with a passion for queer culture? Put your creative juices to work in this internship, where you will have the opportunity to design a website and graphics for Off-Kilter, Goldsmiths’ new student journal on queer art and politics!
As an intern, you will be mentored to work creatively to a brief, in the process gaining knowledge in web design, publishing, and effective communication of research. The materials you produce will be vital to the foundation of this journal, supporting the development of a platform for disseminating and celebrating student-led queer research culture at Goldsmiths.
What experimental queer forms across performance, writing, and installation can we develop as queer artists beyond the normative scripts of representation? How can we be choreographed by language and not-knowing?
During this internship, you will have the opportunity to help research and make a series of performative sculptures and garments for an exhibition at the Academy of Arts, in Germany, as well as an accompanying publication and performance, with other galleries and partners. Plus, you’ll get to meet all of them during the internship!
You should have an interest in queer art and experience of working either with jesmonite or with textiles (or both), and a curiosity about experimental writing and research.
This project focuses on customising GPT to support a collaborative marking framework, where AI-generated feedback complements human expertise to improve the quality and efficiency of academic marking.
The intern will fine-tune GPT to generate rubric-aligned, personalised feedback using no-code tools (e.g.,Hugging Face AutoTrain, OpenAI Playground) or optional low-code alternatives (e.g., pre-written Python scripts). Testing the collaborative workflow will involve simulating real-world scenarios, evaluating usability, and addressing ethical concerns, such as AI bias and transparency.
This accessible, interdisciplinary project is ideal for students interested in AI, UX, and education, offering valuable technical, research, and transferable skills.
At the Department of STaCS and the Wellbeing Research Unit, we are seeking a motivated Research Intern to support a pilot study exploring how mindfulness and CBT can be embedded in placement supervision. This project aims to evidence-based strategies that support students’ resilience and professional growth.
As a research intern, you will assist with literature reviews, ethical approval, conducting an online survey, data analysis, and presentation of findings in a conference/ meeting. You will gain valuable research skills and academic writing experience. This internship is your steppingstone for research and practice in wellbeing.
During this internship at the Department of Psychology, you will contribute to designing a Stage 1 Registered Report investigating how study design influences advice-taking. Specifically, the project tests whether people are more receptive to advice when they make a joint judgement with an advisor, contrasting with typical methods requiring an initial opinion before advice is given.
This research examines how well previous findings generalize to real-world scenarios involving judgment under uncertainty (e.g., doctors diagnosing patients). Key tasks include finalising the study design and analysis plans, preparing an online survey and ethics application, and presenting and drafting the study plans.
Are you interested in research into the applications of Computing to teaching tasks? Work with us to analyse student-submitted reports and find the publications that they cite and reference in their work. Our study is a pilot in identifying which references mentioned in reports actually exist, which may exist but have been incorrectly referenced or just hard to find, and which don’t exist. Our research is looking at identifying the proportion of these references across cohorts of submissions, and the primary task will be to write code or scripts to find these categories, developing algorithms to do so, and analysing the accuracy of the results. There are exciting applications to Computer Science Education research, and other work in the area of Generative AI.
During this internship at the Department of Law, you will plan, execute, and complete an analysis of theatrical material depicting lawsuits by jilted lovers in the long 18th and 19th centuries. This will include scripts for plays and musicals depicting ‘breach of promise to marry’ and ‘seduction’ cases, as well as official trial transcripts. You will be tasked with curating and coding relevant transcripts and writing short summaries. You will be expected to thematise and analyse relevant performative and affective aspects of the transcripts. This project will interest students studying literature, law, history, or theatre and performance.
Goldsmiths’ students, being digital natives, are familiar with Generative AI tools for various purposes. This project aims to explore how students use these tools, identify the inequalities that arise, and develop a more equitable approach to ensure all students have the opportunity to learn and practice with Generative AI tools, enhancing their employment readiness.