Undergraduates as paid researchers

UROP placements for this summer.

Are you looking for a paid summer job that will help to develop your subject knowledge and research skills?
Two research projects in the department have been awarded funding on the Undergraduate Research Opportunity Programme (UROP) and are looking to hire second-year undergraduate students on a paid 6 week placement this summer.

The projects are ‘The Hogarth Press Order Books: Selling the Books of Virginia Woolf’, co-supervised by Dr Nicola Wilson (English) and Nancy Fulford (Special Collections Archivist)

www.reading.ac.uk/internal/urop2013/placements/detail.aspx?id=288

and ‘Diasporic Literary Archives – Enhancing the Register’ supervised by Professor Alison Donnell

http://http://www.reading.ac.uk/internal/urop2013/placements/detail.aspx?id=244

For more information about the projects and for details on how to apply (application to the supverisor due by the end of week 10) please see the project webpages.

About Cindy

Associate Professor in the Department of English Literature at the University of Reading. Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy.
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