Application and internship dates
Applications for the 2025 programme will open in Autumn 2024.
Virtual open day (Zoom): Thursday 24 October 2024 at 11:00-12:00 AM
Applications open: November 2024
Deadline for applications: January 2025
Interview windows with host organisations: February – March 2025
The internship will be for 8-weeks on the following dates:
Internships: Monday 30 June – Friday 22 August 2025
Minimum working week: 35-40 hours (full-time), 20 hours (part-time)
Opening ceremony: Wednesday 25 June 2025
Closing ceremony: Wednesday 27 August 2025
Application form
There are two stages of application to us and both will need to be completed within the specified deadline for your application to be eligible for the programme.
Stage 1: Deadline – 5 January 2025
Through our Applied portal, where you will be asked about the following:
- Your eligibility to work in the UK
- An up-to-date CV
- Three personal-statement style questions on your experiences, skills and motivation
Please ensure that your details (phone, email, university name, course name and dates) are up-to-date.
Stage 2: Deadline – 12 January 2025
After your application has been successfully screened in Stage 1, we will invite you to provide the following on Microsoft Forms:
- Your contact details (name, email address, phone number)
- Preferred internship location in the UK
- Any part-time internship requirements
- If you require any reasonable adjustments for interview
- If you require a laptop for the duration of the internship
- If you are open to internship opportunities that are longer than 8 weeks
- Your subject area and skills
You will be able to save a copy of your Stage 2 application submission.
Applying via 10,000 Black Interns
We are proud to be collaborating with 10,000 Black Interns on our programme.
Any candidates applying for an internship with us via the 10,000 Interns Foundation Pinpoint recruitment system will be directed to complete our Applied application process.
Recruitment process
After the interview window has concluded, we will be in contact with unsuccessful candidates to let them know that they did not secure an internship with us for 2025.
Selection criteria
We don’t expect you to have developed all these skills just yet or have previous experience, but some of the skills you should have include:
- Passion for solving health data problems, no matter how big or small; and are strongly motivated to get things done.
- Sound quantitative skills and the ability to conduct analysis using data.
- Competent pattern recognition and predictive modelling skills.
- Appreciation for our mission and values as the UK’s national institute for health data science to unite the UK’s health data to enable discoveries that improve people’s lives, and balance this with a collaborative mindset to prioritise work.
- An interest and willingness to learn and develop new skills within health data.
We will look for these primarily in the answers you give to the personal statement-style questions in your application to us.
A diverse and inclusive culture
We aim to support you and ensure a smooth, transparent and fair recruitment process for this programme. We will provide:
- All information pertinent to recruitment to be listed on this webpage or clarified in emails to you
- A virtual Open Day hosted by our former interns about the programme including an opportunity for you to ask any questions
- A recruitment support package with tips on what to include / not to include in your CV
- Feedback on your application if you are unsuccessful
- A Next Steps call in January with guidance on how to prepare for interview
- Feedback from host organisations if you are unsuccessful at interview
We aim to accommodate specific needs and personal circumstances. Please make us aware of individual circumstances when applying or contact us directly at blackinternprog@hdruk.ac.uk.
If you have questions or require adjustments to the application process, please contact us via email or telephone (+44 (0)770 847 8846).
HDR UK collects and stores personal data from the participants in this programme, including diversity and destinations data. HDR UK will share this data with the host organisations of the programme as part of the application process. HDR UK may contact you in the future to request information on your destination following your participating in the programme. HDR UK may also contact you to invite you to join in our alumni network. For further information on how HDR processes personal data please see our privacy statement.