The Learner Interns Programme (LIP) is an opportunity for Queen Mary students to undertake scholarship projects in partnership with staff. Each year our interns collaborate and co-create learning solutions that enhance students’ experience.
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.
As a LIP student intern, you will benefit from:
Find out about our 2024/25 projects
This project aims to investigate the learner perceptions of engagement in Higher Education Degree Programmes.
Project iterns: Amina Bouhedda (School of Biochemistry) and Nora Hoffman (Schooll of Engineering)
Project leads: Dr Jo Elliott (Digital Education Studio in VP Health Office, FMD) and Dr Usman Naeem (School of Electronic Engineering and Computer Science)
This project aims to investigate how learners from a range of different disciplinary backgrounds perceive the usefulness of AI in their education.
Project interns: Sherjeel Anjum (School of Engineering), Sharriq Qadir (School of Law) and Ching Chang (School of Law)
Project leads: Dr Fei Fang (School of Mathematical Sciences) and Dr Andrew Woon (School of Business and Management)
This project aims to investigate learners' lived experiences of inclusive teaching.
Project interns: Abdirashid Hassan (School of Engineering) and Isabelle Akoyon (School of Financial Management)
Project leads: Elise Omfalos (Queen Mary Academy) and the Race Equality Action Group
This project aims to explore how Queen Mary can best support students to learn about sustainability.
Project interns: Dawud Hussain (School of Computer Science and Mathematics), Shruti Sabnis (School of Pharmacology and Innovative Therapeutics) and Najia Ahmad (School of Chemistry)
Project leads: Dr Steph Fuller (Queen Mary Academy) and the Sustainability Working Group
Find out more about the projects and read the project reports:
Find our more about the projects and read the final reports.
These educational research internships were established to capture the views of our diverse student population on their holistic student experience. In 2021/22 interns worked on two projects:
Follow the link to read about the Reflections from the 2022 VP Student Research Interns.
As part of the Going for Gold initiative, student research interns undertook projects on student retention, BAME attainment gap and commuting students. The final reports are available to download.
Exploring the factors that impact student retention rates 2019 [PDF 652KB]
BAME Attainment Gap Report 2019 [PDF 1,105KB]
Commuter Students Research Report 2019 [PDF 791KB]