{"id":1451,"date":"2020-04-27T12:14:01","date_gmt":"2020-04-27T11:14:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/soc-employability\/?p=1451"},"modified":"2020-04-28T12:34:12","modified_gmt":"2020-04-28T11:34:12","slug":"summer-internship-in-school-of-computing-developing-a-mobile-app","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/soc-employability\/2020\/04\/27\/summer-internship-in-school-of-computing-developing-a-mobile-app\/","title":{"rendered":"Summer Internship in School of Computing &#8211; developing a mobile app"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Introduction<\/h2>\n<p>Throughout 2019 Prof Chadwick worked on an Innovate UK funded project to produce a Verifiable Credentials infrastructure. Verifiable Credentials are a new W3C Recommendation for the electronic equivalent of paper certificates, plastic cards (e.g. Kent One card, or bank credit cards), and personal details etc. These will all be held in a digital wallet on your laptop or mobile phone. Two Kent students, Dainis Grinbergs and Gurleen Vasir worked on this project last year.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The University has now created a spin out company Verifiable Credentials Ltd, to commercialise the research. Since then, Prof Chadwick has produced a COVID-19 certificate example implementation, which you can see demonstrated here:<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"kent-video-wrapper\"><span class='embed-youtube' style='text-align:center; display: block;'><iframe class='youtube-player' type='text\/html' width='1140' height='672' src='https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Q-1X1FRSTss?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;fs=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;wmode=transparent' frameborder='0' allowfullscreen='true'><\/iframe><\/span><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Prof Chadwick has applied for additional government funding to convert the existing PC based system into a mobile phone system, and to test it with NHS staff. If the grant is awarded, then he will need a student to work with him on this project over the summer holidays.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2>Person Skills<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Qualifications \/ Training<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<table>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"277\"><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/td>\n<td width=\"91\"><strong>Essential<\/strong><\/td>\n<td width=\"77\"><strong>Desirable<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"277\">Good marks (2.1 or 1<sup>st<\/sup>) so far in your Computer Science degree<\/td>\n<td width=\"91\">\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 X<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/td>\n<td width=\"77\"><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p><strong><u>\u00a0<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Experience \/ Knowledge<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<table>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"277\"><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/td>\n<td width=\"91\"><strong>Essential<\/strong><\/td>\n<td width=\"77\"><strong>Desirable<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"277\">Experience of performing user trials<\/td>\n<td width=\"91\"><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/td>\n<td width=\"77\">\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0X<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"277\">Experience of writing mobile phone apps<\/td>\n<td width=\"91\"><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/td>\n<td width=\"77\">\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0X<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"277\">Knowledge of computer security<\/td>\n<td width=\"91\"><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/td>\n<td width=\"77\">\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0X<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"277\">Experience of programming<\/td>\n<td width=\"91\"><strong>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 X<\/strong><\/td>\n<td width=\"77\"><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Skills \/ Abilities<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<table>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"284\"><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/td>\n<td width=\"92\"><strong>Essential<\/strong><\/td>\n<td width=\"78\"><strong>Desirable<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"284\">Fluent in English<\/td>\n<td width=\"92\"><strong>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 X<\/strong><\/td>\n<td width=\"78\"><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"284\">Good communicator, both written and spoken<\/td>\n<td width=\"92\"><strong>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 X<\/strong><\/td>\n<td width=\"78\"><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"284\">Ability to work independently<\/td>\n<td width=\"92\"><strong>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 X<\/strong><\/td>\n<td width=\"78\"><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"284\">Ability to work well as a team member and liaise well with internal and external collaborators<\/td>\n<td width=\"92\">\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 X<\/td>\n<td width=\"78\"><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2>The Job<\/h2>\n<p>You will be employed full time for a minimum of two months (and up to 4 months), starting in May after your exams have finished, and finishing at the end of September at the latest.<\/p>\n<p>You will be helping to run the user trials of the software with NHS staff.<\/p>\n<p>Depending upon your skill set, you may also have the opportunity to do some programming.<\/p>\n<p>You will be paid the national minimum wage depending on your age. You will have to complete a monthly time sheet detailing your hours in order to be paid the following month.<\/p>\n<p>To apply send your CV and cover email to <a href=\"mailto:D.W.Chadwick@kent.ac.uk\">D.W.Chadwick@kent.ac.uk<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Introduction Throughout 2019 Prof Chadwick worked on an Innovate UK funded project to produce a Verifiable Credentials infrastructure. Verifiable Credentials are a new W3C Recommendation &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/soc-employability\/2020\/04\/27\/summer-internship-in-school-of-computing-developing-a-mobile-app\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5829,"featured_media":1454,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[9653,184554,124,5343],"tags":[9658,872,175901,184949,151407,818,149978],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/soc-employability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1451"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/soc-employability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/soc-employability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/soc-employability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5829"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/soc-employability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1451"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/soc-employability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1451\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1456,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/soc-employability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1451\/revisions\/1456"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/soc-employability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1454"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/soc-employability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1451"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/soc-employability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1451"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/soc-employability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1451"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}