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Summer Internship: Encouraging People form Ethnic Minorities to be Blood Donors: Ways to Utilise Artificial Intelligence in Thematic Analysis
Are you interested in the intersection of psychology artificial intelligence and social impact This is a fully funded and paid summer internship part of a fiveyear NIHRfunded project in collaboration with the National Health Service Blood and Transplant (NHSBT). One focus of this work is to better understand why people from ethnic minority communities are less likely to donate blood.
As part of this work we have developed and evaluated a number of codesigned and coproduced films with our codesign partner (Action on Blood: and community groups. We are looking for a motivated intern to help us to evaluate these films based on the qualitative data we have collected (peoples free responses to emotional reactions to the films) by extending the traditional ways of coding qualitative data using new AIgenerated methods and protocols we have developed. In addition we are using a separate AI tool that ses and parses the websites of Blood Collection Agencies (BCAs) to audit their level of engagement in recruiting ethnic minority donors. We would like the intern to contribute to the further development and application of this process.
Start Date:01/07/2025
End Date: 29/08/2025
Working Hours:115 hours total over an 8week period
Pay Rate: 16.78 per hour plus holiday pay
Location: School of Psychology University of Nottingham University Park
Dress Code: Smart casual
The duties will include:
- Coding free response text from film evaluations from samples from diverse ethnic backgrounds
- Revising the coding frame
- Using AI tool to code the free response data
- Explore how well human and AI coding frames align and identify differences
- Implementing the AI website auditing tool on several BCAs in the Global North
Skills and experience required for the role:
- Experience working with qualitative data
- Experience working with community groups
- Experience with the NHS
No prior experience with AI is required but a strong interest in learning and applying AIbased tools is essential
What you can expect to gain during this role:
- You will gain skills working with largescale realworld data
- You will gain skills working within an interdisciplinary framework (psychologists economists clinicians epidemiologists marketing professionals and NHS staff)
- You will gain skills using multiple methods integrating AI and traditional approaches to qualitative data analyses
- Learn about various techniques such a thematic analysis sentiment analysis and AI applications
Application Instructions:
Please note this is a two step application is required for this role.
We would like applicants to contact Professor Eamonn Ferguson and in that email (either as an attachment or within the email) complete the following task:
Describe in no more than 500 words why you would like to do this internship and indicate what you would hope to gain personally what you feel you can contribute (what skills and experience you have) and how it may help your future career plans. Please include your word count.
Please note you will still be required to click Apply Now to complete your details (as instructed below) in order to be considered for the role.
Application Closing Date:May 15th 2025
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What Next:To apply for this vacancy please click Apply Now to complete your details.
Please ensure you also contact Professor Eamonn Ferguson and in that email (either as an attachment or within the email) complete the following task:
Describe in no more than 500 words why you would like to do this internship and indicate what you would hope to gain personally what you feel you can contribute (what skills and experience you have) and how it may help your future career plans. Please include your word count.
Please contactfor further information. Please note that applications sent directly to this email address will not be accepted.
Required Experience:
Intern
Employment Type
Part-Time
