Work Experience
Types of Placement
Work experience applications for 2012 have now closed and further applications will not be accepted.
Applications for places in 2013 will open in October 2012.
To Apply
There are a small number of opportunities for work experience at the
Cavendish laboratory. These are restricted to students who
are sixteen years of age or older and preference is given to those who live locally as we do not find accommodation for students.
Students interested in applying will be asked to fill in our application form and send this along with a CV outlining their qualification and chosen subjects as well as a covering letter describing their interests.
Students interested in applying for a work experience place for June - September 2012 should:
- Check that their parents/guardians and school would be happy to sign our form.
- Then, send this completed form along with a hard copy of:
- A covering letter containing the dates for their placement, contact details(telephone and email), which should also explain their specific interests in physics (please look at the types of placement we can offer below).
- Their curriculum vitae
to:
Dr Lisa Jardine-Wright
Educational Outreach Officer
Cavendish Laboratory
J J Thomson Avenue
Off Madingley Road
Cambridge, CB3 0HE
Please note:
- Places will be allocated at our discretion based on a student's suitability for one of the projects on offer each year.
- Successful applicants for 2012 will be notified at the beginning of March 2012.
Types of Placement
| Cavendish Host Group | Project |
| Outreach |
Development of the Cavendish Museum
Student helped with the redesign of the Cavendish Museum displays on the history of Astrophysics and X-ray Crystallography here in Cambridge. Project tasks included researching and then summarising the history and science behind the stories and the production of posters using powerpoint. |
| Surfaces, Microstructure and Fracture:Structure & Dynamics Group |
X-ray Diffraction
Students prepared and selected samples for studying using the X-ray diffraction method. Where X-ray patterns were suitable students then used computer software to analyse the data and identify the 3-d crystal structure.
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| Surfaces, Microstructure and Fracture:Surfaces Group |
Crystal Structures
Students in the surfaces group experience a mixture of activities including:
- Modelling crystal structures using ball and stick models
- Shadowing data taking,
- Computer data fitting,
- Writing summary report on the work of the lab and their experiences during the placement
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| Theory of Condensed Matter |
Work experience students are encouraged to talk to as many research students and postdocs as possible so that they find out what it is like to do research. Some time is usually spent each day with them discussing physics. These discussion might form the basis of a mini-literature review. Previous students have created a website on quantum information and attended some of the lectures in the Summer School held at the Cavendish.
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