FLS Alumni Summer Studentships

The FLS Alumni Summer Studentships offer undergraduates with an interest in research the opportunity to spend six to twelve weeks in one of the FLS research laboratories.

About the Alumni Summer Studentships

This scheme is now closed for 2024 applications.

Applications are now closed for the FLS Alumni Summer Studentship Scheme.

Through the generosity of our alumni there are a number of studentships available which can provide students with research laboratory training and experience. Studentships may be held in any of the five divisions of FLS. 

Who can apply?

Students studying for an undergraduate degree in the Faculty of Life Sciences who are in the:

• second year of a three-year programme or
• third year of a four-year programme
• have demonstrated excellence in academic achievement in their university studies

What does the studentship cover?

You will spend six to twelve weeks undertaking a research project working with a PI based at UCL’s Faculty of Life Sciences. Many of the previous recipients of our UG Alumni Studentships have made a real contribution to UCL’s research, doing work that has subsequently been published. 

How much funding is available?

• Bench fee of £500 to the PI (Principal Investigator) 
• £400 per week stipend for the successful recipient  
• Additional travel and accommodation costs are not covered by the scheme 

How to apply? (Closing date for applications: 8 May 2024).

• All you need to do is to complete the FLS UG Summer Studentship Student Application Form.
• The same form covers both Alumni and Biosciences studentships. It will ask you to submit a short statement explaining how doing a summer project in a laboratory will benefit you. You can include details of research areas that you would be interested in to help us identify suitable projects.

Previous awardees

Previous recipients of the award have undertaken projects ranging from 'Probing the co-translational misfolding of transthyretin' to 'The role of pericytes in cardiac and renal ischaemia' to 'The molecular basis of miRNA target selection in Syncrip-mediated exosomal miRNA partitioning'.