A new Careers Service blog has been developed for the Charity Insights participants to share their experience of their four week internships.

Charity Insights 2013 is well underway and participants this year have been asked to write blog posts about their experience.

Charity Insights is an Imperial Careers Service initiative which gives undergraduate and PhD students the chance to complete a four week internship in a UK charity of their choice. The Careers Service provides the students with a bursary of £245 per week over the course of their internship. This is the second year the scheme has run. Students are completing graduate level projects which make a real impact to the charities they are working with. This year this ranges from organising marketing campaigns, researching water saving schemes for a community in Ethiopia to ecosystem mapping.

Charity Insights participants for 2013 are:

• Alex Berditchevskaia, PhD Bioengineering, internship at Royal Society Publishing
• Amira Hassan, second year Biology, internship at KEEN London
• Ben Fernando, first year Physics, internship at LUCIA
• Emily Lehtonen, second year Zoology, internship at The RSPB
• Frances McFadden, second year Biology, internship at Durham Wildlife Trust
• Helena Wright, PhD Centre for Environmental Policy, internship at the British Red Cross
• Lydia Sheldrake, second year Biology, internship at the ACT Alliance
• Nick Birtle, second year Geophysics, internship at Blue Ventures
• Will Prince, third year Physics, internship at The Big Issue Foundation

Read their blog posts throughout the summer for regular updates on how they are progressing!