Open Innovation & Technology Scouting Placement Opportunity - yet2

Hybrid or in one of our UK offices (Nottingham or Liverpool)

Closing Date 01 October 2027

Open Innovation & Technology Scouting Placement Opportunity

yet2 is a global open innovation and technology scouting services company with offices in the US, Europe (Liverpool and Nottingham) and Asia and works across a range of company sizes and engages with: Global 1000, Small/Medium Enterprises, Venture Capitalists, Incubators, Accelerators, Research Institutions and Technology Brokers.  We work across all disciplines but have a strong client base in consumer healthcare, pharmaceutical, medical devices, and agricultural technology – see our Active Projects page for an overview of the variety of work we cover. 

Description:

yet2 is seeking a placement student to assist technology acquisition and commercialization projects with our global clients. The successful candidate will work with yet2 Project Leaders and Innovation Managers to help execute projects.

Key elements of the role will be to assist “tech-buy” clients in searching for, assessing, and acquiring new technologies (technology scouting).

The ideal candidate:

• has aptitude for technology, research, scouting and commercialisation
• is a self-starter
• has an appetite for delivering valuable projects

Major responsibilities and deliverables may include:

• project execution (i.e., work with project team to deliver work product that leverages yet2 capabilities and exceeds client expectations)
• report writing (i.e., contribute to drafting reports and presentations for clients
• deal facilitation (i.e., reinforce momentum and avoid hurdles, to convert promising Introductions into completed transactions)
• drive repeat business (i.e., build trust, momentum and insight at key clients, in order to translate successful projects into future engagements)
• presentation (i.e., clear and confident communication with multi-stakeholder, technical client teams of varying seniority)

Skill Requirements:

• General - History of strong academic performance
• Analytics - Familiarity and comfort with some technical/scientific disciplines.
• Communication - Experience and skill in building and delivering projects / presentations; Attention to detail.
• Interpersonal - Excellent interpersonal and external relationship building skills. Team player interested in working in a team-oriented environment
• Must have strong conversational and technical English

The role can be either hybrid in one of our UK offices (Nottingham or Liverpool) or conducted remotely.  Placement students may have the opportunity to travel to the office for team gatherings. 

yet2 welcome applications year-round and we can be flexible with start dates.

If you are interested in this role and would like to be considered, please contact Hayden Hodges, PhD (hhodges@yet2.com) by sending a CV. 

Scientific publishing process - Portland Press (arm of Biomedical Society)

TBC

Closing Date 01 October 2027

Portland Press is the publishing arm of the Biochemical Society – all profits from publishing are returned to the Society to support their charitable activities. 

In this placement, students would have the opportunity to work across several aspects of the scientific publishing process – from inviting authors to contribute to our journals, through to processing papers in peer review, and disseminating published content to our community. The main focus of the placement would be commissioning to drive content to our journals (including the Biochemical Journal and Biochemical Society Transactions) – identifying suitable topic areas and inviting researchers who might be able to contribute their work, ensuring we are covering the broadness and excitement of the molecular biosciences. 

If you are interested in applying, please contact editorial@portlandpress.com. 

Public Engagement and Outreach Internship - Biochemical Society

TBC

Closing Date 01 October 2027

Public Engagement and Outreach Internship 

The Biochemical Society has been at the forefront of advancing molecular bioscience for over 100 years, promoting its importance as a discipline, facilitating the sharing of knowledge and expertise, and supporting molecular bioscientists across all career stages. As part of our public engagement programme, we provide accessible, interactive and engaging public engagement and outreach activities and offer support to members and non-members who wish to communicate their science to the general public.

This project will investigate audience understanding and potential barriers to engaging with biochemical concepts, before developing and testing audience-appropriate materials and resources for inclusion in our resource library. The project will generate practical recommendations and creative resources to support the Biochemical Society’s wider public engagement and science communication activities, as well as the opportunity to get involved with the popular Biochemistry Focus webinar series.

The candidate will benefit from developing their ability to communicate complex scientific topics to different audiences, analyse audience needs, create engaging content, and evaluate the effectiveness of different communication approaches. As the Biochemical Society is a remote working organisation, the project will also develop skills in written and verbal communication, project & time management, research, critical thinking, teamwork and creativity. Throughout the project, the candidate will explore how to embed inclusion and accessibility across all material produced, and have the flexibility to explore different public-facing content creation across written posts, social media, infographics, and/or short-form videos.

This is a rolling placement, with opportunities available throughout the year. Please send a CV and cover letter expressing your interest and suitability to Lucy Ollett, Grants, Awards and Outreach Manager at Education@biochemistry.org.

Doctoral Innovation Placements - Zinc Innovation

Varied

Closing Date 01 October 2027

The Doctoral Innovation Placements programme gives PhDs hands-on commercial and R&D experience, supported by coaching, mentorship, and monthly cohort learning days. No prior commercial experience is needed, and we welcome students from any discipline.

The programme is designed to help DTPs support their PhD students to explore credible non-academic career pathways, build transferable skills like commercial awareness and stakeholder engagement, and to demonstrate tangible impact from your doctoral training investment, without adding delivery burden to your team. Zinc manages recruitment, venture matching, skill development, and programme delivery end to end.

For further information, please see here ZIP Doctoral Innovation Placements Brochure.pdf

For more info or to start planning, contact laura@zinc.vc

Open Innovation & Technology Scouting Placement Opportunity - Axolotl Biosciences

Hybrid or in Victoria, British Columbia

Closing Date 01 October 2027

Bioprinting and Bioink Development Placement Opportunity 

Hybrid or in Victoria, British Columbia

Closing Date 01 October 2027

Open Innovation & Technology Scouting Placement Opportunity

Axolotl Biosciences is a women lead biotechnology company that sells novel bioinks for 3D printing human tissue models.  

Description:

Axolotl Biosciences is seeking a placement student to assist business development and marketing strategies for our novel bioinks. Key elements of the role will be to assist in grant writing and fundraising. If in person, they will also be expected to perform wet lab work in bioink fabrication.

The ideal candidate:

• has aptitude for technology, research, scouting and commercialisation
• is a self-starter
• has an appetite for delivering valuable projects

Major responsibilities and deliverables may include:

• grant writing and pitch deck preparation
• marketing of products via social media
• if in person, produce and perform quality control on bioinks

Skill Requirements:

• General - History of strong academic performance in biomaterials and biological sciences
• Communication - Experience and skill in building and delivering projects / presentations; Attention to detail.
• Interpersonal - Excellent interpersonal and external relationship building skills. Team player interested in working in a team-oriented environment
• Must have strong conversational and technical English

Axolotl Biosciences welcomes applications year-round and we can be flexible with start dates.

If you are interested in this role and would like to be considered, please contact Stephanie Willerth (willerth@axolotlbiosciences.com) by sending a CV.

Internships - Singer Instruments

Singer lab, Minehead, Somerset

Closing Date 01 October 2027

Singer Instruments are currently recruiting internships. 

Please see the following website for more information - Job Openings 

Several placements in Agricultural Biotechnology - Azotic Technologies Limited

TBC

Closing Date 01 October 2027

Azotic Technologies Limited have several available placements in Agricultural Biotechnology for students interested in exploring the exciting opportunities in the sustainable intensification of agriculture.

The projects involve using microbes to address the 3 main problems in agriculture: increased yields at reduced synthetic N-inputs, mobilisation of phosphorous and endosymbiont-mediated delivery of bioactives (dsRNA for gene silencing and peptides) with applications as new plant protection products and altering plant phenotypes without requiring genetic modification of plants.

Skills development include bioinformatics, synthetic biology tools for non-conventional microbes, live cell imaging of microbes inside plant tissues and cells, characterisation of the plant growth promoting properties of microbes in vitro and in vivo in plants, and phenotyping of plants cultivated in hydroponics and glasshouses under the guidance of a team of world class scientists with >18 years post-doc experience in academic and industry environments.

We look forward to be contacted by students with a passion to transform agriculture to be more productive and sustainable.

If you are interested in hearing more about the above placements, please contact Prof Adriana Botes adriana.botes@azotictechnologies.com  

Internship - Deep Science Ventures

Remote (team gather in London office every Wednesday)

Closing Date 01 October 2027

Host Organisation 

Deep Science Ventures

Sector 

Venture builder/ R&D

Host Organisation Background

Deep Science Ventures is a venture creator building deeptech companies in 4 sectors: Agriculture, Climate, Computation and Pharmaceuticals. We deliver this work through funded partnerships with organisations like Coca-Cola, AbbVie, Anglo American, the Advanced Research and Invention Agency - ARIA, and Cancer Research UK. DSV has founded 59 companies across a broad range of domains, from direct air capture to production of green steel and therapeutics for cystic fibrosis to thermal protectants for crops. We take an outcome-centred approach, starting with the problem we wish to solve and working backwards to identify the necessary solutions, building high impact companies.

 Project Title 

DSV Opportunity Area scoping: identifying neglected opportunities to build new ventures that tackle climate, nature loss or food security challenges

Project location 

Remote (team gather in London office every Wednesday)

Project Description 

The first stage in DSV’s venture creation process is to identify ‘Opportunity Areas’ - discrete areas where we see high potential impact and exciting white space, making it suitable for building new companies with our Founders in Residence. An example of this would be ‘Priming plant resilience’, an Opportunity Area that proposes to build the toolkit for modulating plant resilience on demand, and thereby deliver speed and flexibility to crop traits for handling volatile climate risks. This project aims to overcome the bottlenecks of conventional crop breeding (long development timelines, productivity trade-offs, GMO regulations) by developing complementary products that leverage modes of action such as RNAs, developmental peptides or microbial partners that can be deployed in the field.

To identify such an Opportunity Area requires first a broader landscape mapping around a challenge such as ‘crop losses to abiotic stress’ or ‘methane emissions mitigation’. This process involves desk-based research to build a system map of the challenge and potential intervention points, with the goal of uncovering specific areas that are neglected within the current commercial / innovation landscape, but where we believe there is scope for novel technologies to have high impact upon the problem we wish to solve, and which are specifically suitable for venture creation. We are seeking individuals to collaborate with our team on this Opportunity Area identification process - providing PIPS candidates with the platform to apply their technical knowledge and creativity to develop an understanding of how venture creation opportunities are identified.
DSV works on challenges across climate, nature loss and food security, and we are therefore open to taking on board PIPS with expertise and interest in these areas. We would co-define the problem space for scoping prior to agreement and start of the project. This allows the PIPS candidate to explore a challenge that they are motivated by, while also ensuring that the outputs (specific ‘Opportunity Areas’ recommended for future company builds) can meaningfully feed into DSV’s venture creation pipeline.

The project would last three months, with the ultimate output being a report that maps the selected problem space, analyses the existing state of the art solutions, and identifies neglected constraints and opportunities that need to be addressed to solve the root causes of the problem. Within these neglected spaces, the report will then go deeper to analyse the technical and commercial tractability of new solutions that could form the basis for creating new companies.

This scoping process follows an established model for Opportunity Area identification that we conduct with our partners, providing a framework to help the PIPS candidate hit the ground running with their research. While the role is mainly remote, they will work closely with support from Will Summers (senior associate) and Pina Fritz (head of scoping). The candidate should be highly self-motivated, creative and enjoy thinking from first principles - they will be challenging assumptions and digging into unfamiliar scientific domains to consider the opportunities that entire sectors might be missing!

Timeframe and any other special considerations 

Start date is flexible, to be agreed between DSV and the individual.

Candidate Requirements

Technical background that is suitably aligned to the problem space they wish to scope for Opportunity Area identification
Demonstrable interest in science translation and venture creation.

Website/link for further details 

www.deepscienceventures.com

Contact details

Address 

46-54 High Street, Ingatestone, Essex, United Kingdom, CM4 9DW

Organisation credentials  (e.g. Company Registration Number)

Company number: 10314171

Internships - Nexcea

Didsbury, Manchester

Closing Date 01 October 2027

Please see attached flyer for further information on a placement (up to 3 available) at Nexcea - Nexcea DTP Placements 2026.pdf

Internships - Sense about Science

Central London office, but can be flexible

Closing Date 01 October 2027

Background about Sense about Science

Sense about Science promotes the public interest in sound science and evidence. It is a unique campaigning charity that has turned the case for sound science and evidence into a popular cause. It has launched important initiatives to expand and protect open discussions of evidence, including Transparency of Evidence to secure openness for the public about the evidence behind decisions, AllTrials, an effective global campaign for the reporting of clinical trials; and, with Nature, it runs the international Maddox prize for standing up for science. It engages the public in ‘Asking for Evidence’ and leads initiatives to make subjects such as risk, uncertainty, data science and AI accessible.

What does an internship with us entail?

An internship at Sense about Science is a rewarding experience, as no two days are the same. It is a fulfilling way to get practical experience of communications, policy and public engagement, and issues of research quality, developing key professional skills and contacts that will serve you well in your future.

You will work across a range of our projects and programmes – including Evidence Week, the John Maddox Prize, Voice of Young Science , Public Engagement Partnerships and Transparency of Evidence Standard Campaign depending on the timing of your placement. You’ll always be a critical member of the team and we’ll try to tailor internships according to your interests as far as possible, to ensure that you get the most out of your time with us. We typically have at least two interns working with us in our London office at any one time.

Essential skills for applicants

• Ability to identify and use initiative to solve problems
• Ability to organise and prioritise work
• A flair for clear, engaging writing
• Friendly manner
• Candidates should be familiar with and share the Sense about Science ethos regarding the public interest in sound science and evidence
  
  If working with us during the run up to Evidence Week (April 2027 – July 2027), the following attributes are highly desirable:
• An interest in, and understanding of, how the UK Parliament works
• Confidence communicating with senior stakeholders, both in person and over the phone
• Proficiency in Microsoft Excel

Eligibility

Please note we can only consider short-term internship applications as part of a funded opportunity or scheme, such as, but not limited to, the PIPS professional internship scheme, for PhD students. If you don’t have access to funding support for an internship, then please discuss funding opportunities with your institution or research funder, as we are unable to offer funding at this time. We cannot offer unfunded/self-funded internships.

We are currently accepting applications for all of 2027 and will be reviewing them on a rolling basis.

How to apply

To apply, send your CV and a cover letter outlining how your skills match the requirements to internships@senseaboutscience.org with the subject line “Student Internship.” Please indicate on your application if you are interested in interning with us in the run up to Evidence Week (April 2027 – July 2027), and how your skills meet the required attributes.

If you have any questions about our internship vacancies, please don’t hesitate to contact us at the same email.

Placements are usually 3 months and based in our Central London office, but we are flexible. Our office is located in the heart of London, a short distance from Oxford Circus and Regent’s Park. We normally work from our office for 4 days a week, so having the option to be within commuting distance of London is advantageous, but if this is not possible then please let us know.

PCR-based molecular diagnostic assays Internship - QIAGEN Manchester

Manchester

Closing Date 24 September 2027

QIAGEN Manchester are currently recruiting for an internship. 

Please see the following flyer for more information - PIPS Advert_QIAGEN_2027.pdf

Welsh Government PhD Placement – Evaluating the role of government grants and subsidies in delivering the Global Biodiversity Framework in Wales

Flexible / hybrid

Closing Date 05 February 2027

The Welsh Government are currently recruiting internships. 

Please see the following website for more information - Welsh Government PhD Placement – Evaluating the role of government grants and subsidies in delivering the Global Biodiversity Framework in Wales – epwales.org.uk

Welsh Government PhD Placement: Evaluating the Impact of Government Grants and Subsidies on Nature Projects, delivered to Support a Reduction in the Nature Finance Gap in Wales

Hybrid – Welsh Government regional offices

Closing Date 05 February 2027

The Welsh Government are currently recruiting internships. 

Please see the following website for more information - Welsh Government PhD Placement: Evaluating the Impact of Government Grants and Subsidies on Nature Projects, delivered to Support a Reduction in the Nature Finance Gap in Wales. – epwales.org.uk

Public engagement internship opportunity - University of Liverpool

University of Liverpool

Closing Date 30 October 2026

Public engagement internship opportunity

University of Liverpool

Following the recent award of the Silver WATERMARK for Public Engagement, the Faculty of Health and Life Sciences, University of Liverpool are looking for an intern to help deliver a new initiative.

The aim of the placement will be to generate a resource bringing together expertise to provide mentorship (Similar to done here). The placement will involve communicating with people from across the faculty, collating their expertise and generating online content to feature on the public engagement website. There will also be opportunities to support the organisation of Faculty public engagement events such as Meet the Scientists. Sitting within the faculty public engagement team the placement is a great way to gain experience of communication and public engagement. The student would also gain experience helping out with organising faculty-led Public Engagement Events such as Meet the Scientists, Everton in the Community events or Pint of Science.

To apply or enquire informally please contact HLSEngagement@liverpool.ac.uk.

Grants and Programmes Internships Scheme - Academy of Medical Sciences

London/Remote

Closing Date 28 October 2026

The Academy of Medical Sciences Grants and Programmes internship scheme is now open for applications for internships from January 2027 – there are some placements left in 2027 and the remainder in 2028 are on offer.

More details can be found on our application ad and form.

Applications are welcomed for 3-month internships falling between January 2027 and December 2028. The scheme is open to all PhD students who have a funded internship placement as part of their PhD programme. We are open to students from any PhD funder as long as they are expected to do an internship as part of their PhD and as such their stipend will be covered for the duration of their placement.

The deadline for applications is 12.00, Wednesday 28 October 2026.

The scheme is designed to give students first-hand experience of the research funding and career development sectors, and to build valuable networks with the UK’s most eminent medical scientists and senior science and health stakeholders.

I’m very happy to discuss this opportunity further with anyone that may be interested. The Academy works in a hybrid, agile way. We can consider remote internships (some office attendance may be required initially for induction); however, interns can also use our office at 41 Portland Place, London.