Job Description

GenAI in Higher Education Project Intern - GROW Your Future Micro Internship
Closing Date: 04/11/2025
12.21 per hour + 1.47 holiday pay
Advertising End Date
04 Nov 2025

• GenAI in Higher Education Project Intern - GROW Your Future Micro Internship

Role & Department Overview
This micro internship is for 30 hours in total (including 4 hours for training) and is aimed at students who have limited professional prior work experience and are looking for an opportunity that supports them to develop their employability skills.
Eligibility
To apply for this micro internship, students must be part of GROW Your Future.
GROW Your Future is an opt-in scheme for UK undergraduates and postgraduate taught students who also meet specific Widening Participation criteria, e.g. students who are:

• first in their family to go to university;
• in receipt of a Lancaster Bursary;
• received free school meals
• over 21 when they start their first undergraduate degree;
• Black, Asian or Minority Ethnic;
• disabled (including learning disabilities, physical or mental health conditions);
• care leavers or have caring responsibilities, or estranged from family
• a refugee or asylum seeker, from a gypsy or Traveller community, or from a military family

For more information and to sign up see the following link
As stated above, the GROW Your Future Micro Internship Scheme aims to support students with limited professional work experience, therefore priority will be given to students who meet this criteria. This includes students who may have already completed a GYF micro internship.
This internship offers a unique opportunity to gain hands-on research experience at the cutting edge of educational technology and policy development. As the GenAI in HE Project Intern, you will support the Academic Quality, Standards and Conduct team in conducting comparative research into how universities across the UK and internationally are approaching the area of generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) in teaching, learning, and assessment - and beyond! You will develop valuable research, analytical, and communication skills while contributing to an important institutional project that will help shape how Lancaster University responds to emerging GenAI technologies in education.
Start Date: 24th November 2025
End Date: 28th February 2026
Working Pattern: 6 hours per week
Location: On Campus and Remote

Key Responsibilities:

• Conducting desk-based research to identify UK and international universities with published GenAI policies and guidance.
• Systematically collecting and cataloguing policy documents, frameworks, teaching guidance, and student-facing resources from various institutions.
• Creating an indexed resource repository/bibliography of materials gathered for future reference.
• Reviewing and analysing materials to identify common themes, divergent approaches, and innovative practices across the sector.
• Supporting the Academic Quality, Standards and Conduct team with project coordination and documentation, and in synthesising findings into a clear written report that highlights key themes, good practice examples, and emerging sector trends.

Support and Development:
You will be working alongside the Academic Quality, Standards and Conduct team, you will have training opportunities and will be fully supported with regular supervision and guidance on the task in hand.
Person Specification

• A curious and motivated student with a general interest in educational technology, GenAI, or policy development.
• Good research skills and a strong attention to detail, with the ability to find and evaluate information from multiple sources.
• Excellent organisational skills for managing and categorising diverse materials systematically.
• Confident digital literacy and an ability to navigate university websites and document repositories.
• No prior experience in policy analysis or Gen AI required - just enthusiasm and a commitment to producing high-quality work!

As this internship is aimed at students who do not have prior professional work experience, please draw upon examples from extra curricular activities, hobbies, interests, volunteering and part time work in your CV and cover letter.
Please also outline in your CV and cover letter why you believe this micro internship will benefit you and your career progression.
Working in this role will help develop the following skills and experience:

• Business Development
• Collaboration
• Research

• Organisation
• Self-motivation
• Teamwork
• Time Management
• Written Communication

You are required to submit a cover letter to support your application. Applications without a cover letter will not be considered.
Please note: Unless specified otherwise in the advert wording, this role is only open to individuals living in the UK.
Under the terms of this work, we endeavour to provide the advertised number of hours however, hours are not guaranteed and that work may cease if there is a fall in demand.
Adverts that display a closing date should be treated as a guide. We reserve the right to close the vacancy once we have received sufficient applications, so we advise you to submit your application as early as possible to prevent disappointment.
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