What do our internships involve?
We are delighted to be hosting two interns within the NIHR ARC GM Mental Health theme.
Our internship programme gives an essential introduction to research and focuses on the personal development needs of the intern.
An internship gives candidates:
- time to develop key skills which are relevant and useful for future goals - for example, how to formulate research questions and identify appropriate research designs
- skills in which methods to use when searching and reviewing literature, plus tips on conducting research and understanding, analysing, and presenting findings
- access to a whole host of resources including the University of Manchester library, online research resources and training opportunities
- the opportunity to join activities across the wider NIHR ARC-GM Mental Health research theme and attend team and relevant project meetings.
About us
The NIHR ARC-GM supports applied health and care research that responds to, and meets the needs of local populations and local health and care systems.
Our overarching goal is to improve the health of the GM population and the quality and sustainability of the health and social care they receive. We are achieving this by co-producing excellent research in prioritised areas and by enhancing its impact through supported implementation into policy and practice.
Within the Mental Health Theme we work closely with the University of Manchester Mental Health Research Group which has an award-winning track record for patient and public involvement.
We are very enthusiastic about involving service users in our research and have run several research methods courses for adult service users and carers over the past few years. Some members of this course now advise on our research projects.
We wanted to expand on this work by recruiting two service user or informal carer interns to work with us flexibly until the end of March 2026.
