Faculty of Life Sciences Undergraduate Summer Research Studentships

Studentships are available for students in their penultimate year of study, providing experience of a research environment and training.

We are very pleased to announce that applications are now being taken for the Faculty of Life Sciences undergraduate summer research studentships. The deadline for submission is 5pm on 26 May 2026.  

Who can apply? 

Students must be studying for an undergraduate degree in Life, Physical or Mathematical Sciences at UCL and be:

  • in the second year of a three-year programme or the third year of a four-year programme
  • have demonstrated excellence in academic achievement in their university studies
  • some studentships require recipients to be domiciled in the UK and come from a low-income and/or a low-socio-economic background 

What does the studentship cover? 

You will spend between four to twelve weeks undertaking a research project in a UCL research laboratory. Research projects can be laboratory-based or computational but should be based in a Faculty of Life Sciences research group. The Life Sciences Faculty includes the UCL School of Pharmacy, UCL Biosciences, the Sainsbury Wellcome Centre for Neural Circuits & Behaviour (SWC) and the Gatsby Computational Neuroscience Unit (GCNU).  

How much funding is available? 

  • For the duration of the summer studentship (between 4 and 12 weeks) students will be paid at the London Living Wage for working 37.5 hours per week  
  • Bench fee of £500 to the research group
  • Additional travel and accommodation costs are not covered by the Scheme

All you need to do is to complete the FLS UG Summer Studentship Student Application Form. The form will ask you to submit a short statement explaining how doing a summer project in a laboratory will benefit you. You can include details of research areas that you would be interested in to help us identify suitable projects. If you have already contacted a researcher and discussed a project you can give their details. The deadline for submission is 5pm on 26 May 2026.

If you are a UCL Principal Investigator (supervisor) who is interested in hosting an undergraduate student undertaking a summer project in your laboratory please complete the FLS Summer Studentship Project Application Form for PIs 2026.

A panel will use the information on the form to match a student (if you already have a student in mind, you can enter their details on the form). The deadline for submitting project applications is 5pm on 26 May 2026.

Enquiries about this studentship scheme can be made via email.