Applications open - PhD Placements with Open Innovation Team 2025
We are now accepting applications from PhD students for placements beginning in January 2025
The Open Innovation Team have opened applications for the 2025 cohorts of PhD placements. Students wishing to participate in the programme must submit their applications before 14 June 2024 (11:59pm).
Placements normally last three months, with students joining policy projects across a range of areas including health, justice, education, sustainability, energy, international development, and artificial intelligence.
For the first time this year, students will have the opportunity to work with the team’s new Evaluation Service. This will involve helping evaluate the impact of policies that have been implemented across government.
Over 150 students have completed placements since the programme began in 2016. Many of those students have gone on to work in professional policy roles, having developed key skills and abilities on the placement.
Find out what previous PhD placement students thought of their time with the Open Innovation Team here.
The team will host information sessions where you can learn more about the placement and ask questions. These sessions will take place on Wednesday 15 May, 1-2pm, and Friday 31 May, 2-3pm. Please contact daniel.shipsides@openinnovation.gov.uk if you are interested in attending, or join directly using this link.