Are students allocated placement projects or can they go on a placement of their choosing?

Throughout Trinity Term, our students are given the opportunity to conduct a research project within an academic group working on a global health problem of their interest. These are world-leading academic groups doing impactful research either in the global South or working in collaboration with other groups in LMICs.

Placement projects are announced towards the end of the first term and students are allocated a project, based on their stated preference, by the end of term. While the actual work can span several months across terms and be done remotely in part, placement includes a fully funded 8-week stay with the host institution.

The placement project work will serve as the basis for the MSc dissertation, written as a scientific paper. Some of our students have been successful at publishing their work in peer-reviewed journals post-graduation but this is not a requirement.