(This isn't really a review, more just raising awareness of the University of Buckingham. If anyone reading this was thinking of applying or wanted more information then please feel free to message me.)
After finishing my course at the University of Buckingham in December I was invited back to the economics department as an intern until April. The University had only just got funding for offering such internships so I didn't know much about what I would be doing and it wasn't paid;I was only able to claim back expenses but I knew I wasn't ready to move back home yet so I was happy to take the opportunity.
I interned mostly with Dr.Castañeda looking at optimal currency areas which mostly consisted of collecting data. If I'm honest I didn't work as much as some of the other interns (there were six of us) but I was happy for the work whereas another intern didn't complete the full term and another missed a deadline by quite a large margin.
I learnt a lot about how to use excel and go about research, which you think I would know about already, but there was only one module during my degree in which I had to look up raw data.
The way the work was structured was very flexible and I had to set my own hours and milestones. I was able to do a lot of things in the local area that I didn't have time for during my degree while also being to attend events such as The Freedom Festival. The skills I learnt using various features of excel and databases actually helped me with my next internship too.
In summary, I think if you want to go into research or academia then this would be a useful internship for you. It also allows for more freedom within the University. Two of the interns I worked with have stayed on until the end of July doing some more in-depth projects and both of them are going on to do a master's in October whereas the rest of us decided to move onto other skillsets.
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