Description 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. Click to view a copy of the full job description (opens new browser tab) Application Information: Please ensure you include the following documents in your application: CV Cover letter Link to an online art portfolio, if you have one (optional) As a valued member of our team you can expect: A competitive salary; An exciting, positive, creative, challenging and rewarding place to work; To be part of a diverse and vibrant international community; Comprehensive Staff Benefits, such as a generous holiday entitlement, competitive pension schemes, staff discounts, and family-friendly initiatives. Check out the full list on our staff benefits page (opens in a new tab) and use our reward calculator to discover the total value of your pay and benefits; As well as great work experience, the Careers Service provides supporting resources, this is combined with a framework to support the development of participants’ employability and self-reflection with an Edinburgh Award as part of the internship. Further information about the Edinburgh Award can be found our Edinburgh Award homepage (opens new browser window). Championing equality, diversity and inclusion The University of Edinburgh holds a Silver Athena SWAN award in recognition of our commitment to advance gender equality in higher education. We are members of the Race Equality Charter and we are also Stonewall Scotland Diversity Champions, actively promoting LGBT equality. Prior to any employment commencing with the University you will be required to evidence your right to work in the UK. Further information is available on our right to work webpages (opens new browser tab). The University is unable to sponsor the employment of international workers in this role. International applicants will therefore be unable to apply for and secure a Skilled Worker visa. They will only be able to take up this role if they can demonstrate an alternative right to work in the UK. Key dates to note The closing date for applications is March 19th 2025. Unless stated otherwise the closing time for applications is 11:59pm GMT. If you are applying outside the UK the closing time on our adverts automatically adjusts to your browsers local time zone. Interviews will be held in April 2025. LI-DNI