EPSRC Vacation Intern

Job description

UE03: £24,729.00 - £25,804.00 Per Annum. CSE / School of Geosciences. Full Time – 35 Hours Per Week. Fixed Term Contract – 10 Weeks. Project: Interdisciplinary secondary education resources on Carbon Storage and Scotland’s Energy Transition (Geography + Chemistry) EPSRC theme: Energy and decarbonisaiton: Duration: 10 weeks (summer) | Outputs: openly published via open.ed (CC BY) Supervisors: Stuart Gilfillan ( stuart.gilfillan@ed.ac.uk ) and Mark Wilkinson ( mark.wilkinson@ed.ac.uk ) Advisor: Colin Graham ( Colin.Graham@ed.ac.uk ) Rationale and need: Scottish secondary learners are encountering climate change, energy and sustainability across subjects, but classroom resources are often siloed (science or social subjects), overly technical, or not designed for hands-on learning within normal school constraints. There is a clear opportunity to create a coherent, low-jargon set of lessons that: This internship would provide a practical, mentored experience for an undergraduate exploring a career in teaching, focused on curriculum design, clarity of explanation, and classroom-ready activity planning. - links Geography (places, maps, land/sea use, people, policy and economics) with Chem...