{"id":791,"date":"2019-05-07T14:26:46","date_gmt":"2019-05-07T13:26:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sspssremployability\/?p=791"},"modified":"2019-05-07T14:28:59","modified_gmt":"2019-05-07T13:28:59","slug":"summer-vacation-research-internships-announced","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/studentexperience\/2019\/05\/07\/summer-vacation-research-internships-announced\/","title":{"rendered":"Summer vacation research internships announced"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"lead\">A selection of paid summer research internships available.<\/p>\n<p>If you are interested in academic research and would like to gain some real experience as a social science research intern, this could be the opportunity you have been looking for. Open to all undergraduate students who have completed 2 years of study,\u00a0summer research\u00a0internships\u00a0are a chance for\u00a0you to\u00a0work with an academic team on a\u00a0real project.\u00a0Internships are full-time (35 hours per week) and are paid at \u00a3350 per week.\u00a0Here is just a small\u00a0selection of the interesting research projects needing an intern:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><strong>The relationship between retirement and informal care giving in Europe:\u00a0 <\/strong>This study will use data from the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (SHARE) to\u00a0analyse the relationship between retirement and informal care giving in Europe. We will look at the changes in retirement ages that have taken\u00a0place over time in Europe and use multiple regression and panel data analysis to explore the association between retirement and informal care in Europe.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Mealtime matters: exploring catering staff attitudes on and strategies to enhance nutrition and hydration for people living with dementia: <\/strong>This study will investigate how chefs deal with the challenges of providing nutrition for dementia patients and has the aim of delivering a practitioner-orientated sociological investigation.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Compassionate\u00a0communities: what works best for whom under what circumstances?<\/strong> This study will investigate if and how managing the health and social care needs of people in the community can be achieved by fostering social networks.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>For more details and to\u00a0apply, log onto <a href=\"https:\/\/careers.kent.ac.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">TARGETconnect <\/a>using your student details, then:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>select &#8216;placements&#8217; tab and then &#8216;scheme list&#8217;<\/li>\n<li>click on &#8216;Find out more&#8217; under &#8216;University of Kent Research Roles&#8217;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Once you have identified the project which most interests you, complete the application form.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you are interested in academic research and would like to gain some real experience as a social science research intern, this could be the opportunity you have been looking for. Open to all undergraduate students who have completed 2 years of study, summer research internships are a chance for you to work with an academic team on a real project. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37974,"featured_media":792,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[9653],"tags":[19145],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/studentexperience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/791"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/studentexperience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/studentexperience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/studentexperience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/37974"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/studentexperience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=791"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/studentexperience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/791\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":794,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/studentexperience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/791\/revisions\/794"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/studentexperience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/792"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/studentexperience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=791"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/studentexperience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=791"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/studentexperience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=791"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}