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EPSRC Announces £40,000 Funding for 2026 Undergraduate Research Internships

Brunel University London has been awarded £40,000 by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) to support vacation research internships for undergraduate students in Summer 2026. The funding forms part of EPSRC’s wider commitment to strengthening the pipeline into doctoral study for home‑fee students in engineering and physical sciences disciplines.

The scheme aims to provide high‑quality research experience for undergraduates studying subjects aligned to EPSRC’s remit. Eligible students must be:

• Eligible for home fee status at the end of their degree

• Studying an EPSRC‑related undergraduate programme

• Between their second and third, or third and fourth year of study during the internship

• Undertaking the internship before their final year and outside normal degree requirements

EPSRC requires that opportunities are open to all eligible students, without restrictions based on protected characteristics or socioeconomic background. While internships may be targeted at specific disciplines to align with active research groups, recruitment should remain inclusive.

Vacation internships are an existing optional flexibility within EPSRC doctoral landscape awards, and institutions do not need to currently use this flexibility to access the new funding.

Projects available :

1 EPSRC SUMMER INTERNS - DR RUMYANA NEYKOVA Intermediate Representations for LLM-Driven Code Modernisation: Comparative Evaluation and Benchmarking Dataset
2 EPSRC SUMMER INTERNS - DR GAN LU AI-Enabled Low-Carbon Housing Monitoring and Digital Twin Development for Social Housing Retrofit
3 EPSRC SUMMER INTERNS - DR RUOYA JIN Data, Digital, and Deconstruction Planning for Social Housing Decarbonisation in the U.K. context 
4 EPSRC SUMMER INTERNS - DR MARIANA ERCOLINA Development of Conductive Repair Materials and Design of Repair Solutions Using Construction Waste
5 EPSRC SUMMER INTERNS - DR SARATH DANTU Discovering the Building Blocks of Protein Dynamics with AI
6 EPSRC SUMMER INTERNS - DR ISABEL SASSOON Codifying Clinical Guidelines into Logic for Safe Decision Support
7 EPSRC SUMMER INTERNS - DR FABRIZIO CESCHIN AI X Circular Design - Case Study Research of AI tools used for Circular Product Design
8 EPSRC SUMMER INTERNS - DR RUTH MACKAY Hardware for Organ on a Chip Systems
9 EPSRC SUMMER INTERNS - DR MUHAMMAD ALI Data annotation and curation for adaptation of FM model for CT images of woven composites
10 EPSRC SUMMERS INTERNS - DR ISRAR UDDIN Numerical study of surface profilometry of thermoplastic composite (TPC) laminates: healing and repair modelling
11 EPSRC SUMMERS INTERNS - PROF KATE HONE Mapping accessibility standards coverage for humanoid robot design
12 EPSRC SUMMERS INTERNS - DR A SERRANO-RICO Can LLM Agents Replace Senior Reviewers? An Empirical Study of AI in Code Review

How to Apply :

Please complete the attached application form and EPSRC -EqualOpportunitiesForm  and return to studentships@brunel.ac.uk by 12 Noon 19th June 2026.