THE OPPORTUNITY:

After a successful pilot programme, the School of Physics and Astronomy is looking to host two artist students for a 8-week internship during the summer 2025. During this time, the interns will create original and stimulating illustrations / graphics / art pieces inspired by our research and our student and staff community.
The interns will collaborate with colleagues across the School, with a strong focus on members of the TAPLab group, which does research on DNA physics. The interns will explore the researchers and the work they do, to stimulate the production of original artwork, to be produced with input from our team. Final artwork to include around 10 elements of different scales (to be agreed at the start of position, depending on art specialties). After the placement, you will have the possibility to run paid arts-physics workshops for local community groups .
Applications from illustrators and glass artists are particularly welcome (we have a large professional glass kiln).
This post is fixed term (2 months) and full-time (35 hours per week); however, we are open to considering part-time or flexible working patterns. We are also open to considering requests for hybrid working (on a non-contractual basis) that combines a mix of remote and regular on-campus working.
The salary for this post is £23,414 per annum.
The School of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Edinburgh is committed to encouraging equality and diversity among our workforce, and eliminating discrimination. The School strives to create a more diverse, equitable and inclusive workplace for all and we are looking to actively diversify our staff. We welcome applications from all qualified candidates and in particular encourage applications from people of colour, women, people with disabilities, LGBTQ+ people and other minority and under-represented groups. We aim to ensure that our culture and systems support flexible and family-friendly working, as evidenced by our Juno Champion and Athena SWAN Silver awards.
Employ.ed on Campus is run by the Careers Service in collaboration with University departments and Schools. It offers exclusive summer internships at the University over the summer for 2nd year to penultimate year undergraduate students from the University of Edinburgh based in the UK. You cannot take part if you are a visiting student, or you have already taken part in the programme before. Further information about Employ.ed on Campus can be found on our Employ.ed on campus webpages (opens new browser tab) .

YOUR SKILLS AND ATTRIBUTES FOR SUCCESS:

• A current 2nd, 3rd or penultimate year Undergraduate University of Edinburgh student;
• Strong conceptual and artistic skills;
• The ability to drawing on peoples’ experiences and work to create art;
• Good organisational skills;Good communication and team working skills.
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