Science Communication Internships and Fellowships
Please note, this list of places that have hosted scicomm internships - not all are recruiting right now
The International Neuroethics Society have hosted remote science communication interns
The Club of Rome has established a Communications Fellowship, an annual mentoring programme that aims to increase the diversity of voices covering sustainability issues and support early-career communications professionals from underrepresented communities and regions.
The Springer Nature Opening Doors internship offered paid opportunities for students and recent graduates in the UK, US and Germany to gain experience in research, education and science news publishing in our journals, books or magazines (the opportunities when open appeared at the bottom of this webpage)
Europe
GERMANY: The European Southern Observatory (ESO) based in Garching near Munich, Germany takes interns each year
SWITZERLAND: CERN hosts a number of science communication related internships each year 3407Â Swiss Francs per month
MALTA: Science in the City take SciComm Interns each year.
SPAIN: Science Internship with Scienseed 300-400€/monthly [Madrid] [EN / ES]
UK
Science Media Centre Internships (London - £11.95/hour)
Nature News Intern, Springer Nature Opening Doors Programme [London]
STFC Science Communication – Summer Placement £22,096 [Oxfordshire]
Chemistry World Royal Society of Chemistry £12.00 - £13.15 per hour [Remote]
UK: Intern at the Faraday Institution £11.44/hr or £13.15/hr if living in London [REMOTE]
UK: The Biochemical Society Summer Vacation Studentships open for applications usually in spring each year, and these include placements in:
Scientific publishing (projects with the Biochemical Society)
Public engagement and science communication (projects with the Biochemical Society)
Students will be awarded a stipend of £400.40 per week for 6 weeks, to support the students’ living costs for the duration of the placement. The stipend is based on a 35 hour week at £11.44/hour (National Living Wage).
USA, Canada and the Caribbean
ASBMB have published a list of US based Science Journalism Internships.
The Caribbean Climate Justice Journalism Fellowship is open for applications
USA: The Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology (FASEB) is looking for a Meetings & Conferences Intern $16.70 per hr Rockville, Maryland; (On-site or remote work options for DC, Maryland or Virginia only will be considered for this position.)
AAAS Mass Media Science & Engineering Fellowship (10 weeks over the summer)
The Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard offers a paid summer internship in science writing and communications
The Simons Foundation is advertising a few different internships! [New York]
USA: American Chemical Society Science Writing Internship [Washington DC]
The Science Communication Research Fellowship provides a year of virtual research and publication mentoring to junior scholars of science communication who are developing research that actively involves (and is impactful for) Indigenous, Black or Hispanic populations.
Geological Society of America Science Communication Fellowship
Science Communication and Policy Graduate Student Internship at the Surfrider Foundation. $7,500 stipend payment - remote or San Clemente, CA.
University of Michigan Science Communication Fellows program
National History Museum of Utah ‘Science Communication Fellows Program’
Civic Science Fellows - across the USA
The Simons Foundation is looking for a Summer Intern (Science, Society and Culture) $20/hr - $25/hr [New York, New York]
The Scientific American scheme is open now (all $20 per hr and based in New York/hybrid)