Length: 4 months, 8 - 16 months
Paid or unpaid: Paid
Commitment: Full-time (32+ hours/week)
Start date/End date: See Timelines & Recruitment
Contact: HireSocialSci@uwo.ca
Website

Description:
The Faculty of Social Science is committed to intellectual inquiry that uncovers problems and solutions that affect the human condition. We produce new and innovative research and teach students the knowledge and skills necessary to make a difference across industries in the private, public, and non-profit sectors.

The Social Science Co-op Program allows undergraduate students registered at main campus the opportunity to accept full-time, paid (hourly or salaried), degree or career-related work experiences for course credit. These students can join your organization for short (10 - 16 weeks) or long (8 - 16 month) work terms.

• Anthropology
• Economics
• Geography and Environment
• History
• Indigenous Studies
• Management & Organizational Studies
• Political Science
• Psychology
• Sociology
• Urban Development

Length: 6 or 12 weeks

Paid or unpaid: Preferably Paid

Commitment: 35-40 hours per week

Start date/End date: May/August

Contact: Michael Dove | Phone: 519-661-2111 x84996 | email: mdove2@uwo.ca

Website: https://history.uwo.ca/public_history/MA,%20Public%20History%20Field/internships/index.htmlhttp://history.uwo.ca/public_history/internships/index.html

Description: We are Canada's oldest Public History program, an intensive 12-month MA that explores how history is understood by and communicated to the public, whether at museums, archives, historical sites and national parks, in films, fiction, or on the web, in policy making, historical consulting, and in academic teaching and research. The objectives of the internship are to: provide students with the opportunity and experience of applying theory to real-life public history work settings; allow students to work and learn under the mentorship of experienced and knowledgeable professionals; and enable students to continue to develop both hard and soft/transferable skills to better prepare them for a career in public history.

This program is approved by the federal government’s Public Service Commission

Length: 12-16 weeks

Paid or unpaid: Paid

Commitment: 30-40 hours per week

Start date/End date: May/August

Contact: Lyn Hoang | email: mrpe-internship@uwo.ca;

Website: https://nest.uwo.ca/graduate/internship_program.html

Description: As employers from the public, private and not-for-profit sectors you are invited to create internship opportunities for our students (MA in Research for Policy and Evaluation) in order to:

• Support your decision-making processes with evidence and research results.
• Utilize an expert to design a specific research project and/or collect, analyze, interpret, and communicate qualitative and quantitative research results.
• Develop, enhance, and/or evaluate a specific project, program, or policy.
• Review, assess, improve, or adapt your policies and programs to new situations.

Length: 10-16 weeks

Paid or unpaid: Paid

Commitment: 35 hours per week

Start date/End date: May/August

Contact: mfe@uwo.ca

Website: http://economics.uwo.ca/MFE/

Description: The Western Master of Financial Economics (MFE) is a 16-month, course based graduate program which includes a summer internship. This collaborative program includes the Department of Economics, the Department of Statistical and Actuarial Sciences, the Ivey Business School, and the Faculty of Law. These academic units have joined forces to provide MFE students with a broad understanding of Financial Theory and the Economics framework upon which that theory is based, as well as the understanding of Quantitative Finance and Securities Law, required for today's complex financial world. Graduates pursue careers in a variety of industry areas including risk management, financial modelling, investor and treasury services, and portfolio management.

Courses linked to:

• Capital Markets
• Economics
• Financial Modelling
• Financial Risk Management
• Portfolio Management
• Quantitative Finance
• Treasury & Wealth Management