Behavioural Science Intern – Summer 2025

About Innovia

Innovia Technology has an exciting opportunity for an undergraduate or graduate student with a background in Behavioural Science to join our 10-12 week paid Summer Internship programme 2025 to apply their skills to innovation consultancy and work on varied and creative projects alongside engineers, designers, physicists, life scientists, chemists, business strategists, and behavioural scientists at our Cambridge UK offices.

Innovia Technology specialises in ‘front end innovation’ - which means we create and work on the very start of breakthrough ideas and discoveries. For 3 months, you’ll join our holistic project teams who are collaborating to solve multifaceted challenges or invent something new for our clients who are global industry leaders in their fields.

What you'll get

You’ll get a crash course in quickly applying what you’ve learned in an academic setting to unfamiliar real-world situations, extracting what’s useful, and synthesising information from many sources. You’ll learn about topics you've never explored before and solve complex technical problems within industries from food and drink to energy, cosmetics, manufacturing, consumer goods, health or medicines.
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Working closely with other specialists whose background may be in organic chemistry, public health, theoretical physics, chemical engineering or veterinary medicine, you'll get an opportunity to greatly expand your thinking, gain insights into various specialisms and see how they interconnect in a holistic project setting. We'll offer you a training to make it easier to bridge the gap between studying and working as a Summer Intern.

As a Summer Intern, you will spend most of your time working on innovation challenges faced by our clients. You’ll typically work on 2-3 projects at once, and the nature of these projects can be remarkably varied, but here is a list of key activities you will likely be performing:

• Bringing your technical skills and creativity to innovation challenges
• Collaborating closely with colleagues from different fields to solve broad and complex problems
• Conducting desk-based research (e.g., literature reviews) and primary research (qualitative and quantitative)
• Creating new ideas, insights, and models, and transferring this thinking between different applications and industries
• Challenging conventional thinking and industry-specific assumptions
• Helping to structure and create presentations for colleagues and clients
• Applying your broad behavioural science knowledge to our diverse innovation projects, advising on applicable theories, principles, and evidence
• Recommending research design methods and techniques for our work programmes
• Learning from experienced behavioural scientists and multidisciplinary colleagues

The description below should also provide some insights into the role.
It is important that you:

• Have at least completed the penultimate year of your undergraduate degree by summer 2025. We do accept applications from postgraduate students who are graduating in 2025.
• Are studying toward a Bachelors in Psychology or an applied behavioural science field. If you are studying for a Masters or PhD, then both your undergraduate and postgraduate degree should be in Psychology / Behavioural Science fields.
• Evidenced by your academic performance, you must have passed or be on track to pass your current undergraduate or graduate degree.
• Demonstrate a strong understanding of the fundamental principles of Behavioural Science, and the ability to apply them to unfamiliar problems.
• Are keen to work in a dynamic commercial and client focussed environment.
• Have a strong interest in collaborative teamwork and have good communication skills.
• Are comfortable giving your considered opinion on complex questions, and taking part in lively discussions.
• Have excellent timekeeping and task management skills, to be able to take responsibility for your own work and time.
• Have an interest in applying your creativity across a wide range of industries, and the ability to quickly learn about new areas.
• Have a strong interest in the areas of health & wellbeing, consumer products, sustainability, or food & drink.
• Have high attention to detail when compiling literature reviews and analysing qualitative and quantitative data.
• Demonstrate commitment to valuing diversity and contributing to an inclusive, collaborative working and learning environment.

Important Practical Considerations

Office attendance: Our Summer Internships are full-time roles undertaken in-person at our Cambridge UK offices.
Remote working: Unfortunately, this internship is not suitable for applicants who wish to work remotely.
Hours: 37.5 hours per week, Monday to Friday
Tech: We use Macbooks for work. The laptop will be provided on your first day.
Applications deadline: Applications close on 2 February 2025.
Interview timelines: Interviews will take place in February-March 2025.
Offers: Decision making and offer stage in April 2025
Internship duration: The internship runs for 10 or 12 weeks based on individual preference.
Provisional start date: Monday, 23 June 2025
Right to work: Applicants must be based in and have the right to work in the UK.
Visa sponsorship: Innovia Technology cannot sponsor visas for candidates for the Summer Intern role as it will not meet the Home Office's eligibility criteria.
Post-internship references: Innovia Technology only offers a basic work reference letter for former interns. This short factual summary confirms that an intern worked at Innovia Technology, and includes their job title and the dates of their employment. It does not provide any details about their performance, projects or duties, salary, sickness/absence record, or any subjective opinions.
Confidentiality: Confidential Information is a key part of our business given the trust our clients place in us. All Summer Interns are required to maintain confidentiality even after the end of the internship. Prospective applicants should take this into consideration, as they won’t be able to write a detailed internship report for their University, publish articles or give a presentation/talk about the details of the projects they worked on.

Deadline for applications: 2 February 2025

Please apply using this link. You will need to upload:

1. Your CV (which should list the modules with grades you've obtained on your degree so far e.g. by including academic transcripts)
2. Your Cover Letter (no more than 2 pages long). Your covering letter should briefly describe your skills, motivation and interest in the Summer Internship programme and answer this question: What product, service, solution, or device do you wish existed (but doesn’t… yet)? The use of AI-generated answers is not allowed.

CV and cover letter files must be up to 15MB to upload.