If you're in first year, you might not be thinking about internships or work experience just yet - but here's an opportunity for you to develop a wide range of new skills, readily applicable to a variety of future career paths,
Laidlaw's Undergraduate Research and Leadership Scholarship programme pairs undergraduates with leading academics, working on real-world problems ranging across a variety of topics. Laidlaw Scholars leave participants with the skills they need to become active global citizens and future leaders, and to make lasting change in the wider world.
Project List: Summer 2023
Here are the topics you can choose from, sorted by faculty...
Arts and Humanities
1 The transmission of early Latin tragic fragments
2 Case study of British or Global Yiddish Theatre
Bartlett Faculty of the Built Environment
3 Stepping into a Future Urban Growth Lab
Brain Sciences
4 How does voice training affect speech perception?
5 The side effects of clozapine (an atypical antipsychotic) in treating psychosis in Parkinson's disease
6 How does the antibiotic doxycycline promote survival in mitochondrial disease models?
Engineering Sciences
7 (m)App my data! Exploring the power of location as a data integrator for Net Zero Digital Twins
8 Augmented Reality User Interface
9 A bio-impedance analysis-based HMI system for robotic control
10 Single antenna FMCW radar using UCL's ARESTOR system
11 Internet of Things (IoT) direction of arrival (DoA) system based on Xilinx RFSoC
12 Exploring the landscape of mutations in Gaucher disease
Institute of Education
13 Sound Spikes: Designing, constructing and evaluating musical interfaces using Lego, Spike Sensors and Raspberry PI computers
14 Youth voice and sustainable futures for higher education
15 Marking two hundred years of students at UCL
Life Sciences
17 Cellular ‘self-eating’ and calcium: what’s the link?
18 Career trajectory and success of neurosurgeons
19 Career trajectory and success of psychiatrists
Mathematical and Physical Sciences
20 Nature-inspired self-healing for organic electronics
21 Low temperature deposition of indium oxide thin films for applications in optoelectronic devices
Social and Historical Sciences
23 Emotions in learning and assessment
24 Climate Change and Investment Protection
25 Foreign language education reforms in Europe
26 History and the Rustat memorial plaque controversy
27 ACT UP New York and the Politics of Health Care in the HIV-AIDS Emergency
How to apply...
First year undergraduate students can apply until Monday 16 January 2023.
When you have chosen which project you wish to apply for make sure you read it thoroughly and think about the issues involved. You will need to complete an online form and demonstrate that you meet the Essential Criteria listed for your chosen project, or have sufficiently developed your own project idea.
The standard six week period for summer 2023 is Monday 12 June to Friday 21 July 2023. These dates can usually be changed by agreement with the supervisor, but you should check this with them before applying.
Project outputs must be completed by the end of the summer 2023.