UNIQ+ research internships
UNIQ+ research internships are fully funded summer internships designed to provide students from under-represented and disadvantaged backgrounds with the opportunity to experience postgraduate study at Oxford.
UNIQ+ aims to provide a real day-to-day experience of postgraduate research. During the seven-week programme students will undertake a research project, attend training skills sessions and receive information on graduate study.
Our intention, is that everyone who takes part will gain confidence, skills and experience that will enhance both their CV and any future postgraduate applications. During UNIQ+, students will live in college accommodation and experience life as a graduate student in Oxford. Social activities, including some organised lunches and dinners, will introduce students to our community and to some of the University of Oxford’s famous traditions and locations.
The 2026 internships will take place 6 July - 20 August 2026
Applications are now closed for the 2026 UNIQ+ History internships.
Please visit the UNIQ+ website to find out more about the programme.
Oral History and lived experience in mind brain health
Epilepsy affects more than 50 million people worldwide, with a disproportionate burden in low-to-middle income countries where the effects of epilepsy-related stigma are the most severe. This project will contribute to a well-developed Embedded Oral History Project that incorporates the lived experiences of people living with epilepsy into research, advocacy, and education. We are currently developing The Oral History Project and Repository as part of the Centre for Global Epilepsy.
You will work with multiple disciplines across the Humanities and Global Health to carry out historical and/or global health research, health communications and advocacy materials, and the development of social media or research content in epilepsy or Mind Brain Health. Projects will consider individual interests and may be explicitly historical in nature or may work across Humanities and Health related disciplines.
Conceptions of parenthood in the late nineteenth century
This project would explore the different conceptions of parenthood articulated in the journal of the Parents' National Education Union - the Parents' Review - edited by Charlotte Mason, in the period 1880-1920 in order to examine how ideas of motherhood and fatherhood evolved over the period, and to trace the impact of new pedagogical ideas, changing ideas of gender, and the extension of schooling before and through the Great War.
The Newton Project
You will learn basic information relating to the life and work of Isaac Newton, and more generally in the history of science. You will work with leading historians and practitioners of digital humanities, and will receive training in the use of AI-enhanced analytic tools for creating data (including but not limited to transcribing handwriting and printed materials), both contributing to and analysing the large dataset comprising the Newton Project.
This project is aiming to create an Open Access digital edition of all of Newton's published and unpublished writings by 2030. You will gain knowledge both of Newton and his ideas and also of state-of-the-art historical research into these topics. You will also be introduced to key techniques and approaches in the use of AI in modern humanities research, thereby acquiring key transferable skills.
Religion and the life-cycle in Elizabethan England
The history of Reformation religion in England is frequently studied separately from the social history of the period. This project seeks to bring together the experiences of birth, marriage, and death with the religious faith and practice which contemporaries used when going through these rites of passage in an age of religious transition. You will work in one of these three areas (birth, marriage, and death), examining a range of sources including treatises, homilies, diaries, letters, plays and poetry. You will be asked to formulate ideas about how early modern society understood these life experiences within a religious framework.
Conservatism in the Atlantic World in the nineteenth century
You will work on the Leverhulme Trust-funded project "Conservatism in an Age of Revolution", which attempts to map and explain the emergence and spread of the language of conservatism in the US, Britain, Latin America and other countries in the period between about 1830 and 1900. You will be given a specific set of sources (in English, or, if you have reading knowledge in Spanish, French or German), such a run of newspapers or magazines, and asked to map out the use of some key political terms, noting their context and offering some thoughts about their use and how they changed over time.
