Miriam Rothschild Internships
This is a programme that enables SCCS delegates from developing countries and eastern Europe to spend one month after the conference with a UK-based conservation NGO or a university department carrying out a project of mutual interest. The internship can also include attendance at a short course designed to help interns to learn a useful skill. The internship period cannot take place before the conference. It has to be immediately after the conference and for a period of four weeks including the short course. Travel dates will be arranged on an individual basis. Please view the appendix before applying to see whether your country qualifies. We will consider applicants only from Lower Income (LIC), Lower Middle Income (LMC) and Upper Middle Income (UMC) Countries for bursaries and internships.
Are you eligible?
You must be from a developing country or an eastern European country (and not already based in western Europe, Australia, Canada, New Zealand or North America). You must make it clear on your application form where you are based. You must attend the SCCS conference that year. Please view the appendix before applying to see whether your country qualifies. We will consider applicants only from Lower Income (LIC), Lower Middle Income (LMC) and Upper Middle Income (UMC) Countries for bursaries and internships.
How to apply
Applicants need to contact a UK-based conservation organisation or research group themselves. We do not supply names of organisations, universities or research groups who could act as hosts. We cannot respond to email requests to source or set up internship placements. Although we will consider internship applications which do not include attendance at a short course on key skills, we recommend that you include this in your application.Do not apply for an internship if you cannot be in the UK from late March until the end of April.
For the full application procedure for applicants and host organisations please view our guidelines.
Commitments
- When an internship is awarded SCCS agrees to:
- Pay the intern's costs of return travel to the UK, including visa costs, from their home country for attending the conference and internship period.
- Pay an allowance of £250 per week for accommodation and food for up to 4 weeks, costs associated with attendance at the short course (if offered) and travel costs within the UK to the internship locations. If other costs are incurred by the intern, additional funding should be sought by the intern or the host organisation.
- Coordinate logistic and travel arrangements.
- Host organisations agree to:
- Provide assistance with finding suitable accommodation.
- Provide facilities, advice and any supervision needed by the intern for one month after the conference.
- Help with any expenses not covered by the internship (see above).
- Complete a brief feedback form.
- Interns agree to:
- Attend SCCS for the full three days.
- Carry out their project to the best of their ability for one month after the conference.
- Submit a short report on the work done during their internship within one month after it ends.
- Complete a brief feedback form.
Internship applicants need to submit online applications by 23 October 2011 and host organisations need to complete their part of the application by 31 October 2011 at 09:00 hrs GMT.
The Miriam Rothschild Internship Programme is funded by Arcadia. Prizes for the best internship report, consisting of a subscription to Oryx - The International Journal of Conservation, and £75 worth of books are donated by Fauna & Flora International and Cambridge University Press.
