Potential Placements
The opportunities listed below will give you a sense of the different types of placement and different organisations you can do a placement with. They are current vacancies and can be applied to but the list is not exhaustive. You are welcome and encouraged to explore opportunities at other organisations that may be more relevant to your research.
Please contact us if you are interested in any of the opportunities below or have a different organisation in mind for your placement.
Contact us: training@chase.ac.uk
These placements are available to CHASE funded students (in receipt of a CHASE studentship) only.
You must still be receiving your stipend when the placement starts and the placement must have finished before your PhD thesis is submitted for examination.
You will be paid by extension of your stipend. Your funding end date will be extended by the number of months the placement runs for (adjusted for part time hours if necessary).
You can claim support with additional costs, such as travel and accommodation costs.
Please read the guidance notes contained in the CHASE placement application form before applying for any placements offered through this scheme.
Current placement opportunities
The UK government’s Open Innovation Team has opened applications for the PhD Placement Programme 2025. All the PhD placement work aims to build your skills and provide you with an insight to what it’s like to work on policy and in government.
There are opportunities at Kew across a range of departments including, communications, public programmes, collections and science. Placements with Kew are a fantastic way to develop your skills, build your networks, and work with a renowned scientific and public-facing institution.
English: Journal of the English Association has been brought to UEA for a three-year term they are looking for an assistant to support the editorial team.
The Brilliant Club is an award-winning university access charity. They recruit and train PhD students and ECRs to support disadvantaged school pupils access the most competitive universities and succeed when they get there.
The Hockey Museum (THM) is the world’s first and only museum of field hockey. Located in Woking, Surrey, it is only a 30-minute train from Waterloo station. THM preserves, shares and celebrates the sport’s rich history and heritage both in Britain – where the ‘modern’ game started – and worldwide.
The role will provide administrative and editorial support to our department. This role is based at Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 50 Bedford Square, London, WC1B 3DP. The placement will ideally be for 2-3 days a week over a period of 6 months, but there is some flexibility with this.
JGPACA is a volunteer-run archive of historical materials relating to African and African diasporic cinemas, with Black British cinema at its core. The placement holder will assist June Givanni and her team of volunteers in maintaining and developing the archive. Tasks include collections cataloguing and digitisation; conception and delivery of film screenings and other public events; fundraising and publicity; editorial and administrative support.
4 Day Week are the UK's national campaign for a four-day working week. They are independent, non-partisan and are campaigning across the UK for a four-day, 32 hour working week with no loss of pay for workers.
Zinc has just launched the second round of its Innovation Internships scheme, which allows PhD students to learn more about early-stage innovation through 3-month placements with mission-focused start-ups.
Turner Contemporary is one of the UK’s leading art galleries, showcasing world-class exhibitions. Since opening in Margate in 2011, Turner Contemporary has established itself as a locally embedded, nationally significant arts organisation connecting art, people and place.
CHASE is partnering with the think tank the Autonomy Institute to offer exciting opportunities for doctoral researchers to engage in the world of innovative and radical policy.