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« Back to Blogs: Opinions from our research and teachingMy IRIHS work experience: A week exploring healthcare, research and office life
2 hours and 38 minutes ago
Grace Gould reflects on a week of work experience with the IRIHS group, exploring digital health research, healthcare inequality and academic life at Oxford. She shares how the placement broadened her understanding of research, collaboration and future career opportunities.
Seeing healthcare differently: Student reflections from the NIHR Health Economics Internship
15 April 2026
Three students – Abbie Simpson (University of Glasgow), Ashish Singh (University of Oxford) and Anika Gogia (King’s College London) – reflect on the NIHR Health Economics Internship they undertook last summer at the Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Sciences (NDPCHS), University of Oxford. Coming from backgrounds in medicine and psychology, they each brought different perspectives to the programme. In this Q&A blog, they share on their motivations for applying, what they learned and how the experience has influenced their future ambitions.
Making the most of a long summer: My NIHR internship in Health Economics at Oxford
13 November 2025
For PPE students, a summer spent in a healthcare research department may not seem the usual path, but for Leyi Pan an NIHR Health Economics internship at in the Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Sciences was the perfect fit. In this reflective blog, Leyi shares insights from her eye-opening experience, exploring the rigour, real-world impact, and ethical depth of research that shapes health policy and wellbeing.
Internship spotlight: Sam Rolfe’s path into primary care research
7 August 2024
Sam Rolfe, a University College London (UCL) medical student and upcoming National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR) intern in the Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Sciences (NDPCHS), shares his passion for primary care research and how this internship could shape his future career aspirations.
Zander Simpson: An intern's experience of the Health Experiences Research Group
6 October 2021
In this blog post, Zander Simpson, who joined us briefly over the summer, share his thoughts and experiences working as an intern with the Health Experience Group.