This summer Warwick LinC is offering five part-time paid internship opportunities with Central England Law Centre, Advicenow and Coventry Independent Advice Service.
8 weeks, 18 hours per week, working part in-person, part remotely, Monday 14 July 2025 – Friday 5 September 2025
Eligibility
All current (term 1 and term 2 of 2024/25) and past volunteers with Warwick LinC programmes (Strategic Social Justice Clinic, Immigration and Asylum Clinic, School Exclusions Project, Environmental Law Clinic, etc) and undergraduate students who have completed the Public Legal Education Module are eligible to apply. You must be a current Warwick University student (if you are a finalist, you will be graduating during the summer).
We encourage you to apply for any of the opportunities that are of interest to you. You can apply to them all if you want to! You may be shortlisted and interviewed for more than one opportunity. However, in the interests of fairness you can only be selected for one internship.
You must be based in the UK whilst working as an intern on these projects, even if the internship is remote.
Whilst deciding which internships you would like to apply for, please pay careful attention to whether the internship is remote or in-person.
Information Session
There will be an information session about this year’s Internships on Friday 25 April 2025 at 2pm-3pm. This will be held online via MS Teams and will be an opportunity to learn more about the internships and ask any questions you may have. Join the session using this link.
How to apply
To apply you will need to submit a single pdf document for each internship you wish to be considered for, containing:
A short CV
A covering letter (no more than 500 words) explaining what you believe you can contribute to the internship and what you hope to learn from the experience.
Each of the internship applications require you to complete a short task. Please see the information related to each internship for details of the required task. You will also need to include this as part of the single document file.
Deadline to apply: Please submit your application/s to: WarwickLinC@warwick.ac.uk before 5pm on Thursday 1 May 2025.
Candidates selected for interview will be informed by 2 May 2025. (Please note: Candidates selected for interview for the Advicenow Internship will be informed by 7 May 2025).
Interviews will take place on the following dates:
Immigration and Asylum Internships-Wednesday 7 May 2025.
Legal Information, Research and Evaluation Internship (Advicenow) – Wednesday 14 May 2025.
Strategic Social Justice Internship –Tuesday 6 May 2025
Coventry Independent Advice Service Internship – Friday 9 May 2025.
If you have any questions about these opportunities, please email: Rosie Narayan, Warwick LinC Coordinator: WarwickLinC@warwick.ac.uk
Please note: LinC Interns will be expected to submit a short reflective piece of writing by the end of September summarising their internship experience.
Warwick Law in the Community Summer 2025 Internships
The Immigration and Asylum team at the Central England Law Centre are looking for a summer intern to assist with all aspects of their work. This will include taking instructions from clients, drafting correspondence, legal and country information research and help with administrative tasks. You will have the opportunity to develop key skills, including: interview skills; communication and teamwork; drafting skills; legal research; and the ability to prioritise tasks.
Internship details:
Two internships. Each internship is an 8-week opportunity, 18 hours per week. Dates: Monday 30 June 2025 – Friday 22 August 2025.
This internship is in-person, based in the Coventry office. This a paid internship at an hourly rate of £13.56/hr plus £1.64/hr holiday pay.
Interviews to be held: Wednesday 7 May 2025.
We’re looking for someone with:
Commitment to social welfare law and human rights
Flexibility – no two days will be the same!
Awareness of equal opportunities and non-discriminatory practice
Willingness to work as part of a team
Ideally, you will have previously volunteered on the Immigration and Asylum Clinic, although this is not essential.
Application Task
As part of the application process, please answer the questions below – the task should not take you more than 1.5 hours. Your answers should be expressed in bullet points rather than an essay.
Our client is from Nigeria and has stage 5 renal failure and is required to attend dialysis three times a week. He has made an application to remain in the United Kingdom on the basis of Article 3 of the ECHR. The Home Office has refused his application for leave to remain.
What is the test to succeed under Article 3 ECHR in medical cases? You will need to look at the relevant case law here and Home Office guidance.
Can you find any objective evidence to support our client's case?
Legal Information, Research and Evaluation Internship - AdviceNowx 1 internship
The Role
You will have the opportunity to be involved in one or more of the tasks listed below.
Research team:
Undertaking and assisting colleagues to undertake research into legal issues relevant to our work, including welfare benefits, family courts, housing rights and employment.
Carrying out literature reviews, e.g., form the Health Justice Partnership.
Recording findings, keeping records and accounts of the management of projects.
Investigating and evaluating sources of data for empirical projects, e.g., Online Support and Advice Grant.
Utilising statistical software to support empirical studies relating to law and policy.
Supporting statistical analyses on social science data sets and report findings.
Compiling or updating databases and datasets when needed.
Reviewing and contributing to writing academic publications and other policy reports.
Legal information team:
Reviewing information categories and making recommendations for the Advicenow website in line with our inclusion criteria.
Reviewing the information available from a particular provider against Advicenow’s inclusion criteria and making recommendations for the Advicenow website.
Producing a checklist summarising a legal process.
Contributing to the development of a new Advicenow guide as a panel member.
Developing a new ‘know-how’ including top tips and possible solutions in collaboration with a member of the Advicenow team.
Administrative tasks, for example, searching for email addresses for contacts or working through Google analytics looking at ‘no results’ searches.
Updating the Advicenow Chosen for you content and Legal advice and helplines content.
Drafting social media posts.
Monitoring or researching changes in the law.
Monitoring Google analytics and/or other evaluation processes.
For more information about this internship and to read the experiences of previous Advicenow Interns see this document.
Internship details:
8-week opportunity, 18 hours per week. Dates: Monday 30 June 2025 – Friday 22 August 2025.
This internship is working mainly remotely with the opportunity to visit the AdviceNow offices. This a paid internship at an hourly rate of £13.56/hr plus £1.64/hr holiday pay.
Interviews to be held: Wednesday 14 May 2025.
We’re looking for:
Shortlisted candidates will meet all of the essential criteria, and are likely to meet several, if not all, of the desirable criteria below.
Essential
Knowledge and interest in the broad range of legal and rights issues affecting the UK public.
Enthusiasm for the development of information to increase public knowledge and understanding of the law and rights.
Excellent writing skills in plain English, including the ability to pay close attention to detail and to summarise complex information and communicate clearly to a wide audience.
Strong IT skills, including a thorough working knowledge of Microsoft Office software, especially Excel, and an ability or willingness to update websites.
A self-motivated and flexible approach to working independently within a small team.
Good organisational skills, including ability to organise workload, take responsibility for particular areas of work, work on own initiative and meet agreed deadlines.
Good verbal communication skills, including a pleasant and friendly telephone manner.
An understanding of the difficulties faced by disadvantaged people and communities in achieving access to the law and justice.
An understanding of equal opportunities issues and a commitment to equal opportunities in all aspects of your work.
Desirable
Experience of the not-for-profit advice or community sector.
Attendance on the PLE Module at WLS.
Experience of using specialist research software such as Endnote, SPSS and Nvivo.
Experience in conducting interviews.
Experience of report writing.
Experience in qualitative analysis.
Familiarity with Access databases, ideally including design/development as well as use.
Experience of advice or information giving.
Experience of updating and editing website content.
An ability to administrate, manage and regularly update social media sites such as Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter with the intention of increasing Advicenow and Law for Life’s reach.
Application Task
As a key part of our research and evaluation process, Advicenow needs to obtain feedback from the people we help through the range of services we provide. This is not just about their satisfaction with Advicenow and the specific service they’ve used, but also to help us evaluate whether we have helped them to achieve better outcomes in their legal issue and if that has helped them improve their legal capabilities.
Instructions
As part of the application process, please answer the questions below – the task should take less than 1.5 hours (including time to look at the Advicenow website)
Your answers should be expressed in bullet points rather than an essay. Draw upon any knowledge and experience you have of using research skills in a community setting.
Task
Imagine you are designing a short user feedback survey of people using information on one legal problem covered by our Advicenow content (you can choose which one – go to https://www.advicenow.org.uk/get-help).
This user feedback survey would be situated on a page on the website that deals with your chosen legal problem. It needs to be a short survey (max 5-6 questions) that is specific to a particular legal problem and encourages more people to respond and provide us with valuable information about how the information we provide has helped them. For this task, please answer the following questions:
What do you need to take into consideration when designing this survey?
What audience do you think this should be aimed at and how will that affect the questions you ask?
What sort of questions are most effective in online surveys?
What challenges are you likely to face in obtaining feedback from Advicenow service users in this way?
Please tell us about any experience you have to date that you think would help you in obtaining feedback from service users. (This can include experience from within or outside your degree course.)
Please note - we don’t need you to design the survey itself, just answer the questions above as if you were.
The Strategic Social Justice Clinic (‘SSJC’) is a joint initiative between Central England Law Centre (‘CELC’) and Warwick LinC. It specialises in using Public Law and other rights-based strategies to address systemic disadvantage and achieve effective change.
Over the past year students have worked with CELC’s Public Law specialists on diverse projects exploring discrimination and urban regeneration in CELC’s localities. CELC is keen to imbed and build on work produced as part of these projects to maximise use of research/resources produced in its work both internally and externally.
As well as furthering work on previous projects, CELC is continually developing ideas for (i) potential future projects for SSJC students to work on and (ii) potential social welfare legal issues where strategic litigation might be appropriate.
The Intern will: (i) work with CELC on tasks to imbed and disseminate work from previous SSJC projects, (ii) help in the preparation of forthcoming projects (conduct background research, gather resources and compile data relevant to potential future projects), (iii) continue CELC’s work to scope out forthcoming local and national social welfare policy-influencing opportunities where SSJC work might be used (e.g. reviews of international treaties, shadow report timetables, select committee investigations, scrutiny committee meetings, consultations), and (iv) aid in producing draft responses for CELC on open calls for evidence/consultations.
Internship details
8-week opportunity, 18 hours per week. Dates: Monday 14 July 2025 – Friday 5 September 2025.
This internship will be working remotely. This is a paid internship at an hourly rate of £13.56/hr plus £1.64/hr holiday pay.
Interviews to be held: Tuesday 6 May 2025
We’re looking for someone with:
Good research skills
Good verbal communication skills
Ability to identify relevant information
Ability to communicate clearly and accurately in writing
Understanding of the fundamental public law principles
Ability to work both independently and collaboratively
Application Task
CELC is keen to make use of research and resources developed in SSJC Projects to progress our policy-influencing work on priority issues.
One of the tasks the intern may be working on during the internship is to scope out and write a plan plotting forthcoming local and national social welfare policy-influencing opportunities such as:
reviews of international treaties and shadow report timetables
UK government select committee investigations
local authority scrutiny committee meetings
consultations
forums/networks
Draft a note not exceeding a maximum of 500 words explaining: (i) how you would go about researching these policy-influencing opportunities and (ii) what information a spreadsheet/table/chart plotting these might include.
We realise that you may not know anything about policy-influencing work. We are not expecting you to undertake any detailed research. We don’t expect you to spend more than 1-2 hours completing the task.
Coventry Independent Advice Service is a small, local charity, currently funded to provide advice, information and casework for welfare benefits and debts. We also provide information, signposting and referrals for other issues, for example housing, Immigration and Family Law.
We offer advice to people living in Coventry and those referred to us by Stratford Foodbank. We can only provide debt casework for clients referred by our funders, The Health Justice Partnership (via Coventry Law Centre) and Stratford Foodbank.
The CIAS intern will:
1.Assist caseworkers at our ‘PIP Clinic’ in Holbrooks- 6 hours per week, Weds, 10am to 4pm.
This is a fairly new project and subject to change, but likely to consist of:
Completing PIP forms at booked appointments (training/shadowing opportunities would be provided).
Greeting clients who might ‘drop in’ for advice, gathering information about their enquiry and adding details to our casework system.
Signposting to other help and advice, for example, housing advice or Immigration advice.
2.Contact clients to help with the following: 12 hours-remote (can be worked over 2 or 3 days)
Household Support Fund applications and other local welfare support (Coventry and Stratford)
Council tax reduction applications and council tax discounts and exemptions (Coventry and Stratford)
Applying for Discretionary Housing Payments
Applying for the Big Difference Scheme
Applying for Energy help/trust funds
Searching for grants that client may be eligible for.
Internship details:
8-week opportunity, 18 hours per week. Dates: Monday 14 July 2025 – Friday 5 September 2025.
This internship is working 6 hours per week in-person, 12 hours remotely. This a paid internship at an hourly rate of £13.56/hr plus £1.64/hr holiday pay.
Interviews to be held:Friday 9 May 2025.
We’re looking for someone with:
Good research skills.
Good verbal communication skills.
Ability to identify relevant information.
Ability to communicate clearly and accurately in writing.
Understanding of the fundamental public law principles.
Ability to work both independently and collaboratively.
Application Task
As part of the application process, please answer the questions below (in a maximum of 500 words) – the task should take approximately 1.5 hours.
Your answers should be expressed in bullet points rather than an essay.
What does social justice mean?
What do you think are the current barriers to access to justice?
