Have you got a research software idea you’ve never had time to explore? We want to hear from you!
We’re looking for project ideas from researchers across the university to host four N8-funded undergraduate interns this summer. Each intern works with you for eight weeks, with dedicated Research Software Engineering support built in — so you don’t need to be technical yourself to apply.
This is a great opportunity to get a proof-of-concept off the ground: a data pipeline, a small interactive tool, a visualisation, or a way to make your research outputs more accessible and reusable.
To give you a sense of what’s possible, last year’s Leeds interns built:
- A sentiment analysis tool for Victorian literary texts
- A web app to monitor therapeutic environments in a mental health ward
- A high-performance computing project exploring how AI models think
Read more about what last year’s interns achieved →
Other ideas that would fit well include:
- Usability testing and interface improvements for a research tool your group already uses
- Paper prototyping a new digital tool before committing to building it
- Prototyping an interactive tool for exploring an art collection or archival dataset in new ways
- Building an interactive visualisation or map to bring a dataset to life
- Automating repetitive data cleaning or formatting tasks
- Improving documentation so your existing code is reusable by others
The deadline to submit a project idea is Friday 6 March. Projects run for any 8 weeks between 1 June and 11 September.
Questions?
Find out more about the programme on the N8 CIR website, or contact Sorrel Harriet or Patricia Ternes directly.
