Participants on the Careers Service's Charity Insights scheme will be blogging about their efforts and experiences during their four week internships.

Charity Insights 2014 is upon us and participants have been asked to write blog posts about the work they are doing with their respective charities.

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 third 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 we have a record 20 students on the scheme, with a wider range of projects being undertaken than ever before!

Charity Insights participants for 2014 are:

• Rupert Belsham, 1st year Physics, The Passage
• Nicholas Burstow, 2nd year Medicine, Multiple Sclerosis Trust
• Jun Cao, PhD Medicine, The George Institute for Global Health
• Anna Cupani, PhD Chemical Engineering, Sense about Science
• Isabelle Erbacher, 2nd year Medicine, Rethink Mental Illness
• Martha Hilton, 2nd year Physics, RECLAIM
• Rebekah Hodgkinson, 1st year Biology, The Derbyshire Wildlife Trust
• Clara Hurst, 2nd year Chemistry, Thomas Frederick Willetts Foundation
• Ramandeep Kang, 2nd year Physics, Barnado’s
• Julia Langer, PhD Medicine, Population Health Genomics Foundation
• Juha Leppanen, 1st year Maths, Green Alliance
• Elizabeth Mitchell, 2nd year Biochemistry, British Heart Foundation
• Chandrika Nair, PhD Microbiology, The Smallpeice Trust
• Lee Pearson, PhD Centre for Environmental Policy, CABI Trust
• Vanessa Place, 1st year Biochemistry, St Anne’s Community Services
• Chun-Yin San, 2nd year Biomedical Science, Sense about Science
• Jay Shah, 2nd year Physics, British Red Cross
• Chloe Thorn, 1st year Biomedical Science, British Red Cross
• Thomas Windle, 4th year Mechanical Engineering, Cornwall Wildlife Trust
• Kristiana Xhuxhi, 2nd year Biochemistry, RSPB (Wild about Hampstead Heath)

Keep reading the Charity Insights blog throughout the summer for regular updates on how this year’s students are progressing!