ABaCuSS

This programme aims to develop and provide a proof of concept for working models of intrapreneurship within the social sciences, and bring social scientists and industry partners closer together. The ABaCuSS platform will drive real-world use of innovative, world-leading social science research, widen networks for future collaborations and provide a platform to develop business relationships.

ABaCuSS will develop practical skills for students coming from a diverse field of disciplines, and tap into the broader Aspect network to create a robust programme of delivery and support.

You can find out more about ABaCuSS at: https://abacus-s.org/  

The Leadership Factory

Intrapreneurial Accelerator Research Internship

The Leadership Factory is a management consultancy who provide ambitious solutions to companies looking to champion diversity and positive impact development. The Leadership Factory is looking to test, evaluate and identify strengths of a programme developed for a major pharmaceutical company in Scotland.

Apply here

Tandem

Transport Service Price Prediction Internship

Tandem is an innovative start-up optimising local shared transit options in small cities, and towns across the UK. The student placed with Tandem will work with data sets and public assets to develop a predictive journey pricing model.

Apply here

The Crichton Trust

Zero Carbon Internship & Technology & Rurality Internship

The Crichton Trust is an innovative social enterprise leading #TheCrichton through its next exciting phase of development. They have the aim to ‘connect people, place and the past to shape the future’, primarily via the enterprising custodianship of The Crichton Estate, creating a world-renowned home and destination for innovation; a place for people to cohabit and share ideas – all inspired by The Crichton’s extraordinary history, places and spaces and rooted in a rural setting and gigabit connection to the world.

Apply here

Diverse and Equal

Diversity in Technology Internship

Diverse and Equal is a tech for good organisation that equips people from underserved backgrounds to fulfil critical roles in tech and empower organizations to create cultures that celebrate difference. Diverse and Equal works to understand the impact of the lack of diversity in product creation and services powered by tech, and the placed student will aid in providing evidence-led guidance for trainings and recommendations on where underrepresented groups in organisations are positioned to build more robust products and services fit for the global market.

Apply here

Faithful + Gould

Sustainable Construction Practices Internship

Faithful + Gould is an integrated project and programme management consultancy, and is seeking a student to address methods to improve cost certainty in low-cost certain environments in the construction industry, with an emphasis on sustainable practice i.e. whole life cost approach to decision-making. The project will centre on a case study of the restoration of the Grade I listed Manchester Town Hall for Manchester City Council

Apply here