Placement Scheme

1. Placements designed by our existing LAHP non-HEI Partners

Our existing placement hosts regularly design placement opportunities for LAHP students in areas that provide students with invaluable industry experience, and which contribute directly to the development needs of the organisation. Please see our PLACEMENT OPPORTUNITIES AVAILABLE section for details of all current opportunities.

1. Proposing a placement to an existing LAHP non-HEI Partner

Some of our existing partners are open to placement proposals from students in which you define the area of work that you would like your placement to be focused on.  Please check out our placement host profiles below to see which institutions are currently willing to consider expressions of interest from students.

If you have an idea for a placement with a host open to student placement proposals, please complete the expression of interest form below and send it to lahp.partners@london.ac.uk to outline your proposal. The LAHP Office will then liaise with the relevant non-HEI Partner and then put you in contact with a mentor there.

3.    Placements with new Partners

If you are considering a placement with an organisation that is not within the current LAHP non-HEI partners, or you and your supervisor are already in contact with a specific organisation, you can liaise directly with them and then submit the agreement form below to lahp.partners@london.ac.uk when all arrangements are agreed with the partner institution and your supervisor.

LAHP Placement Scheme – expression of interest form

LAHP Placement Scheme – agreement form (to complete once the placement has been agreed with the non-HEI partner)

Placements can be undertaken at times most convenient for all parties and there is no set structure for how they must be taken; students could, for instance spend 1 day a week or every day for 3 weeks on a placement, as is suitable for the project, the student and the partner.

Students must discuss placements with their supervisors before applying and should ideally be in the middle years of their degree; placements must start within the funded period of the studentship.

If your placement involves a substantial commitment, you can consider one of the following:

• Interrupting for the period of the placement. Please note that during this period your stipend will be suspended, but your submission end date will be extended by the equivalent period
• Applying to the Research Extension and Placement Fund which would extend your stipend payments but not your submission end date (please see the Research Extension and Placement Fund guidelines for details). For example, if your placement is undertaken over a period of 4 months, this would extend your funding end date by the equivalent 4 months, but not your submission date.

Placements must fall within the AHRC terms & conditions.

If a student has received Covid extension funding, the two options available to them to undertaking a placement that requires a substantial time commitment remain (i) interrupting for the period of the placement (which suspends the stipend but extends the submission date by the equivalent period) or (ii) applying to the Research Extension and Placement fund (which extends the stipend payments but not the submission end date). Placements must start within the funded period of the studentship, and it is permissible to start a placement in the period of a Covid funding extension, providing it is compatible with plans for completion within the submission period.

Here you can find a list of thenon-HEI Partners who have agreed to the LAHP Placement scheme. By clicking on the individual links, you will be able to find out more about the type of placements that each partner offers as well as whether they are open to placement proposals from LAHP students and supervisors. Please check this list regularly as we update it as and when new Partners join.

If you can’t find a suitable partner from this list, you can liaise directly with institutions that you or yoursupervisors have developed/or intend to develop collaborations with and then submit the LAHP agreement forms to us once the placement arrangements have been agreed.

ACTIVE PLACEMENT HOSTS

British Film Institute

Derek Jarman Lab

Lambeth Palace Library

Museum of the Home

National Archives

National Theatre

Routledge – Taylor & Francis Group

Royal College of Physicians

Wasafiri

LAHP PLACEMENT PARTNERS CURRENTLY UNABLE TO OFFER PLACEMENTS DUE TO COVID-19

The following hosts remain LAHP Placement Partners but are currently unable to offer placements due to the pandemic. We update this section regularly as host circumstances change.

Black Cultural Archives

Eastside Community Heritage

Victoria & Albert Museum