The below opportunities are for BioMed 2 students. If you are interested in one of the placements, please contact the DTP for more information: GW4BioMed@cardiff.ac.uk.
You can also download an Excel file of all the opportunities here:
| Organsation / Company | Area | Website | Contact | Details | Notes |
| UKRI Policy Internships | Policy | UKRI | Highly competitive but previous students have secured placements. Launches mid-July with a deadline of late September/early October | ||
| Royal Institution (Ri) | Varied across the interests of the Ri | RIGB | Recruitment Team | Launches the internship in June with a tight deadline of July for submission. Check the website or watch for the email | |
| Wolfson Centre | Developmental and clinical psychiatry, genetics, social sciences and neuroscience to better understand depression and anxiety in young people. The team is made up of statisticians, psychologists and clinical academics so there are no wet lab projects | Wolfson Centre | In the first instance, contact the admin team who will circulate to the wider team. | Please outline if you have a specific research question or topics you are interested in. | Lucy Riglin Charlotte Dennison |
| National Centre for Mental Health (NCMH) Cardiff | Psychiatric research and Reproductive Mental Health | NCMH | Amy Lynham Arianna Di Florio | The Innovation Campus is also home to the Centre for Neuropsychiatric Genetics and Genomics (CNGG) and Cardiff University Brain Imaging Centre (CUBRIC). | Amy Lynham happy to host, please contact |
| Office for National Statistics (ONS) | Data projects | ONS | Rhian Palmer Charlie Wroth-Smith Dr Lucia Barbone Connaire Pearce | Suzanne Henderson, Resource Manager | |
| Mary Lyons Centre | Mouse genetics and the use of mouse models for the study of human disease. | HAR | Sara Wells | Lab based and/or animal based. Contact Dr Sara Wells and she will link you with colleagues, depending on your area of interest | |
| Cambridge Cognition | Data analysis and may have rotations through different parts of the company. | Cambridge Cognition | Liz Wragg Rob Baker, Chief of Product and Operations Francesa Cormack, Chief Scientist | Need to follow up once Claire Tume has finished to see if more year after 2026 | |
| One Health Trust | Research, Communications | One Health Trust | See website | The internship program is open to all on an ongoing/rolling basis. Students are enrolled in any PhD program can apply via email. Interns will be selected through a short selection process and will be on-boarded both remotely and in physical One Health Trust offices. Please write to internships@onehealthtrust.org with the following information: Cover letter, Name, CV/Resume, domain of interest (research and analysis, comms), OHT projects and research areas of interest, preferred work location (onsite or remote), preferred duration of internship in months, and a writing sample | **based in US and India so may be cost restrictive |
| Life Arc | Advancing medical research towards patient treatments & diagnostics | Life Arc | Dr Andy Merritt, Head of Academic Engagement | Scheme 1: Opportunity Assessment Group Internships Spring and Autumn, (2 per scheme) Scheme 2: Adhoc placements are offered by different LifeArc groups. Please see their Careers page for opportunities. | |
| Kohlrabi | Kohlrabi’s ethos of equality, inclusion and collaboration is the basis of all our partnerships. 3 month PhD Accelerator Programme to equip students with practical tools to succeed as research consultants. 42 hour contact time with weekly online training’ hands on experience preparing client proposals for our charity partners with expert feedback, skills-focused webinar, 1-2-1 personalised mentoring | Kohlrabi | Katie Tiley Fran Harkness | **there is a charge for this programme, so please check this when looking into it. | |
| Environment Platform Wales | Various | EP Wales |