Queen Mary Learner Interns Programme

The LIP was established by Professor Stephanie Marshall, Vice Principal (Education) to support the University in gaining student feedback on the entire student experience. The Programme is designed to ensure engagement of the student voice in developing strategic learning projects which deliver the Queen Mary 2030 Strategy and the Active Curriculum for Excellence.

Benefits

As a LIP student intern, you will benefit from:

• employment through QTemps (for up to 80 hours)
• a valuable professional experience, with an opportunity to collaborate with diverse teams on inclusive and strategic projects  
• the opportunity to act as a co-researcher and contribute to shape the student experience at Queen Mary
• a vibrant community of peer LIP students

We are currently recruiting for our 2024/5 interns via QTemps. Further details can be found below.

2023-24 Learner Interns Programme

Project 1: LEA: Learner facing co-created LEA resources focusing on learner retention and progression communicated to students by students 

This project will conduct research into learner opinion on LEA to create a learner handbook. 

Project interns: Lusi Pan (School of Economics and Finance), Naoshin Haque (School of Biological and Behavioural Sciences) and Heenal Panchal (Barts Cancer Institute)

Project lead: Dr Usman Naeem (School of Electronic Engineering and Computer Science)

Project 2: Peer-Led Team Learning and its impact on team leaders’ employability development 

This project will examine the impact of Peer-Led Team Learning (PLTL) on student outcomes and explore the impact on PLTL on peer leader employability development.

Project interns: Muhammad Uzair (School of Business and Management), Qianying He (School of Biological and Behavioural Sciences) 

Project lead: Dr Xue Zhou (School of Business and Management)  

Project 3: VR: Empowering skill-based Education through VR  

This project will explore:  VR chemistry laboratory to support skill-based education in practical chemistry; a portfolio of healthcare and medicine VR simulations to support skills-based education in FMD; a comparative study to identify the similarities and differences of VR effectiveness in the two disciplines and issue recommendations for how VR can be rolled out effectively across the institution. This project is funded by the President and Principal’s Fund for Educational Excellence.

Project interns: Enzo Olivieri Cortes (School of Physical and Chemical Sciences), Kasandra Mavrigiannaki (School of English and Drama), Annika Joshi (School of Mathematical Sciences) 

Project leads: Megan Bryden (School of Physical and Chemical Sciences); Professor Chie Adachi and Dr Pedro Elston (Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry)

Project 4: AI for Student Learning and Research 

This project, based on FMD AI training experience, will ask QMUL students’ perception on what AI training would be useful in their school. This project is funded by the President and Principal’s Fund for Educational Excellence.

Project interns: Khanh Tran (School of Electronic Engineering and Computer Science), Girija Negi (School of Business and Management) 

Project leads: Nick Fisher (Institute of Health Sciences Education); Dr Casandra Lewis (Institute of Dentistry) and Dr Pedro Elston (Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry)

Project 5: Bangladeshi students: Designing careers interventions that enable Bangladeshi students to achieve graduate level employment 

This project will aim to understand the Bangladeshi experiences and attitudes towards career development.  

Project interns: Vi Bui (Wolfson Institute of Population Health) and Naoshin Haque (School of Biological and Behavioural Sciences) 

Project lead: Matthew Halfin and Lizzie Gall (Careers and Enterprise) 

Project 6: Exploring awarding and continuation gaps among undergraduate Black students 

This project will aim to explore students’ perspective of barriers and facilitators to academic excellence at Queen Mary, specifically for Undergraduate Black students, in order to support equality, diversity and inclusion.

Project intern: Fadumo Abdi (Wolfson Institute of Population Health)

Project lead: Elise Omfalos (Queen Mary Academy) with Race Equality Action Group 

Project Reports 

Find out more about the projects and read the project reports: