2025/26 Student Fellows Projects
Each academic year we invite a number of Student Fellows to join us for a 9-month contract (usually October - July) to work for the Bristol Institute for Learning and Teaching. Applications for the current academic year are now closed.
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Student Fellows form an important part of BILT, acting as the liaison between academic and professional services staff, and their fellow students – working to build their experiences and the experiences they discover into the work the wider University undertakes in developing teaching and learning.
Student Fellows will each be assigned a theme and work towards improving the University’s understanding of the student experience of this theme. Student Fellows largely have flexibility to shape their time working with us to hone the skills they want to pursue in the future. Although the outputs of the work should align to the Institute’s and University’s research interests, the methods by which they achieve these outcomes are largely left to themselves – just this year we have had students run art competitions, hackathons, focus groups and opinion-gathering stalls around campus to help develop their research!
Student Fellows should have demonstrable independent working skills and be highly self-motivated. They should be confident approaching and conversing with a wide range of people and be able to communicate and share the experiences of others both aurally and in written format. They should be open-minded to views of others and look to understand perspective from both students and University management.