UNIQ+ experiences from Oxford's graduate research internship programme | University of Oxford

This summer, 127 students from across the UK came to Oxford to participate in UNIQ+ - the university's flagship graduate access programme that provides students from underrepresented or disadvantaged backgrounds with the opportunity to experience life as a graduate research student. The 7-week programme sees students undertake a research project and attend training skills and information sessions, as well as meeting and working with Oxford researchers, academic staff, and graduate students. Here we hear from UNIQ+ supervisor David Gavaghan, Professor of Computational Biology at Oxford, and his 2023 UNIQ+ interns, Talal and Kamil, to find out more about their experience of the programme. Professor Gavaghan, can you tell us about your role at Oxford? This is my 37th year at Oxford - I came in 1986. I came here for one year to do a master's degree and never quite escaped, although it’s quite a nice place to get stuck! I particularly work with industry, so looking at how we can use com

This summer, 127 students from across the UK came to Oxford to participate in UNIQ+ - the university's flagship graduate access programme that provides students from underrepresented or disadvantaged backgrounds with the opportunity to experience life as a graduate research student. The 7-week programme sees students undertake a research project and attend training skills and information sessions, as well as meeting and working with Oxford researchers, academic staff, and graduate students. Here we hear from UNIQ+ supervisor David Gavaghan, Professor of Computational Biology at Oxford, and his