EPSRC summer internships

EPSRC announces £40,000 funding for 2026 undergraduate research internships.

Brunel University of 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 don't currently need to use this flexibility to access the new funding.

Projects available

• Intermediate Representations for LLM-Driven Code Modernisation: Comparative Evaluation and Benchmarking Dataset
• AI-Enabled Low-Carbon Housing Monitoring and Digital Twin Development for Social Housing Retrofit
  
• Data, Digital, and Deconstruction Planning for Social Housing Decarbonisation in the U.K. context
• Development of Conductive Repair Materials and Design of Repair Solutions Using Construction Waste
• Discovering the Building Blocks of Protein Dynamics with AI
  
• Codifying Clinical Guidelines into Logic for Safe Decision Support
  
• AI X Circular Design - Case Study Research of AI tools used for Circular Product Design
• Hardware for Organ on a Chip Systems
• Data annotation and curation for adaptation of FM model for CT images of woven composites
• Numerical study of surface profilometry of thermoplastic composite (TPC) laminates: healing and repair modelling
• Mapping accessibility standards coverage for humanoid robot design
• Can LLM Agents Replace Senior Reviewers? An Empirical Study of AI in Code Review

How to apply

Please complete the application form and EPSRC - Equal Opportunities Form and return to studentships@brunel.ac.uk by 12 noon on 19 June 2026.