Evidence-based Benefits

Innovation Fellowships (formally known as Internships), boost student employability and provides workplace skills for beyond your PhD.

We formally evaluated the CGC programme in the study ‘Preparing UK PhD students towards employability: a social science internship programme to enhance workplace skills’, published in the Journal of Further and Higher Education.

The findings demonstrated that traditional PhD social science study provides transferable workplace skills and fellowships enhance these skills, illuminating a wide range of non-academic employment pathways for Innovation Fellows. 

You can read stories from past students on the Innovation Fellowships page.