Update: 2023 Applications for NHS England PhD Data Science Internships

We're pleased to say, that after some delay, applications were opened on the 4th December with a closing date of midday on the 17th December 2023. Interviews will take place across the 8th to 12th January with the first projects starting in mid-Feb till early July.

Project Proposals

Below is a list of internship projects which are continually being updated and added to. We also welcome project proposals from both prospective students and interested organisations. Please contact us at our mailbox if you would have queries or would like to discuss a proposal.

Open Projects Accepting Applications

These projects are currently open for applications in the Autumn (2023). We are happy to discuss the briefs and hear suggestions to fine tune them.

area   technique   datamodality Advancing Privacy Fingerprint (PrivFp) using modern generative methods – working with KCL and the CogStack Group
area   technique   datamodality Adversarial Attacks to Quantify Privacy of Synthetic Data
area   technique   datamodality Applied Privacy Enhancing Technologies in Healthcare
area   technique   datamodality Building towards a Primary Care Digital Twin
area   technique   datamodality Evaluating NER-focussed models and LLMs for identifying key entities in histopathology reports – working with GOSH DRIVE
area   technique   datamodality Evaluating the Implementation of Automated Clinical Coding on Neurology Clinic Letters – working with LTH
area   technique   datamodality Exploring Medical Visual Question Answering Approaches and Advancements
area   technique   datamodality Extending NHSSynth into Multi-table, Multi-modal, and Longitudinal Data
area   technique   datamodality Exploring Human-Computer Interaction and Collaboration in Healthcare Settings
area   technique   datamodality Graph-based representations and techniques for Healthcare Data
area   technique   datamodality Inequalities in Population Health Data - Cardiovascular and Heart Disease – working with ESNEFT
area   technique   datamodality Investigating Privacy Concerns and Mitigations for Healthcare Language and Foundation Models
area   technique   datamodality Predicting Demand to Support Health Inequalities – working with the Leeds Data Model
area   technique   datamodality Prediction of winter respiratory admissions – working with SNEE ICS
area   technique   datamodality Reinforcement Learning as a mechanism to improve alignment and control in Multi-modal models
area   technique   datamodality Simulating Healthcare Scenarios with LLMs as Agents
area   technique   datamodality Structural Topic Models and Sentiment Model Robustness - Extension
area   technique   datamodality System testing of AI technologies – working with the HRA (Health Research Authority)
area   technique   datamodality Understanding Fairness and Explainability in Multi-modal Approaches within Healthcare

Closed Projects

Paused Projects

Paused projects are ones which we have advertised in the past and still interested in but either have been de-prioritised, need further research or there is an issue with data access delaying the work. Happy to discuss these briefs if you see opportunity.

area   technique   datamodality Augmenting Text Generation in Healthcare with Knowledge Retrieval Approaches
area   technique   datamodality Automated Text Descriptions from Imaging - Next Steps
area   technique   datamodality Building an NHS Agent Based Model in HashAi
area   technique   datamodality Causal Models to Generate Synthetic Longitudinal Data
area   technique   datamodality Exploring Large-scale Language Models with NHS Incident Data - Next Steps
area   technique   datamodality Fairness in Healthcare Data and Models
area   technique   datamodality Metadata API for ABMs
area   technique   datamodality NHS Language Corpus
area   technique   datamodality Optimisation and Learning Algorithms on Patient Pathways
area   technique   datamodality Synthetic Data Exploration - Probablistic Graphical Models
area   technique   datamodality Synthetic Text Generation in Healthcare

Completed Projects

Completed Projects are ones which our previous interns have finished and reported on. There may still be many areas or investigation possible with these and so happy to talk about redeveloping or continuing.

area   techniques   datamodality Explaining facial skin disease classification using LIME
area   technique   datamodality Predicting the Impact of Health Inequalities - Diabetes
area   technique   datamodality Structural Topic Modelling on Contact Tracing Feedback Data
area   technique   datamodality Synthetic Data Exploration - Variational AutoEncoder for Healthcare Data
area   techniques   datamodality Value of Commercial Product Sales Data in Healthcare Prediction

Archived Projects

Projects which we have decided not to go ahead with either due to lack of data or deprioritised work.

area   technique   datamodality Granular Mapping                                                                
area   technique   datamodality NHS GreenSpace
area   technique   datamodality NHS Semantic Search

More information on the internship scheme can be found on the NHS England internship scheme for innovation and analytics in health website.