The Bath Insights internship programme
This programme gives professional services departments and teams the chance to host an intern, providing rich and rewarding experiences to our talented pool of students. It helps departments play a key role in advancing critical institutional agendas around student voice, community building and student experience.
The programme is open to most undergraduate students in years one and two, and all interns are paid the Real Living Wage and receive free on-campus accommodation. The host department funds the internship from their budget.
Internships are full-time (a 36.5-hour week) and last 8 weeks, running from 1 June to 24 July 2026.
Who can host a Bath Insights intern
All departments are encouraged to consider hosting a Bath Insights intern. In the past we have placed interns in teams as diverse as the Doctoral College, Campus Services, and Careers. As long as you are able to provide an 8-week project for an intern to work throughout June and July 2026, you can host an intern.
Project-based opportunities
The programme is not intended to absorb existing ad hoc and temporary employment opportunities, and instead is designed to bring valuable student insight to meaningful projects. Each department needs to submit a very short project brief to be able to move forward with hosting an intern.
Projects can be focused on one of these key themes:
- data
- operations
- sustainability
- student support
- education and policy
- marketing communications
- other (for projects that don’t fit neatly into the above categories)
As the internships are relatively short (8 weeks), it might be easier and more manageable to offer one project rather than spread an intern's time across different areas or functions.
Completing a project brief
Before completing a brief, we recommend reviewing the full details of the programme.
When you are ready, you can complete the project brief and submit it by 28 November 2025 at the latest.
Get in touch
If you would like a more detailed discussion before submitting your project brief, or have questions about the brief or the internship itself, please get in touch via email at internships@bath.ac.uk. We'd love to talk to you about your possible projects and how a Bath Insights intern might be able to help you.