Internships calendar for Social Sciences and Public Policy 2022-23

We’ve all been there. You start looking for internships and before you know it, two hours have passed, you went into some kind of internet vortex and you only found one relevant thing – and its deadline just passed!

It’s no surprise that the thing which students most often ask Careers Consultants about is what kinds of internships / work experience they can apply for. This is definitely the case for students wanting to work in politics, policy and the public sector as work experience opportunities are not always as numerous or as well advertised as those in the financial, legal and technology sectors (which are the kinds of internships you’ll find if you look at the usual sites such as TargetJobs or Bright Network).

To try to make it easier to access information about policy, politics, public sector work experience opportunities, your SSPP Careers team (Andrea Cox, Fiona Richardson and Beckie Barlow), have compiled a list some UK and global internships below.

The idea is that you can bookmark these dates in your calendars for the year ahead so you know when the deadlines are likely to be.

Two things for you to be aware of:

The list here is not comprehensive! There are many, many more internship programmes and work experience opportunities out there. Think of this resource as one part of your research. To maximise your chances you will need to cast your net wider than this. You could have a look at:

Kings Career Connect job board
Sector guides on KEATS (e.g. on policy, risk, think tanks, multilaterals, global health, public health)
Sector-specific job boards – W4mp (policy, public affairs and politics in UK)
EuroBrussels and IntJobs (European and global policy jobs)
Charity jobs (UK)
International Development (global)
Smart Thinking (policy & think tanks in UK)
Blog about European think tanks
Public Affairs Networking
Escape the City (purposeful jobs, UK mostly, some global)
Idealist (purposeful jobs, global)

2. This list is based on crowdsourced information – these schemes may not run at the same times (or at all) in 2022-23. You therefore need to take responsibility for checking individual sites.

If you are an international student you will also need to check carefully the visa requirements for each programme. For further support on this talk to the Visa & International Student Advice team. If you find out any updated information about the following programmes and would like to help us keep the guide as accurate and useful as possible to the wider KCL community then please email Andrea Cox.

Autumn

The PSC

Public Sector Consultants

London, UK

Summer internships

Opens September

Asia House Fellowship

12 month research project for people who will be PGT/PGR graduates by Oct 2023. For those interested in researching an issue driving change in Asia and Middle East

Remote

Opens October, closes January

Bank of England

Internships (including first year internships), insight days

London, UK

Some opening in Autumn, others throughout the year

Early Diversity Internship Programme, UK government (Civil Service)

5 day summer internship for 1st year UG students from diverse backgrounds

London, UK

Opens Autumn, closes November

World Bank internship

For current PGT/PGR students who can undertake an internship as part of their course