Fi Wi Road Internship 2026

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The Fi Wi Road Internship returns for the sixth year with another exciting opportunity for Black and mixed-Black heritage geography students. Funded by the Royal Geographical Society, the British Society for Geomorphology, and the Geographical Association we will be supporting pre-career researchers (PCRs) in paid part-time internships, from June to September 2026.

Through group sessions, one-to-one mentoring, skills workshops, and hands-on conference administration, the ‘Fi Wi Road’ project will support you in building networks, voice and experience within a discipline in which Black geographers are consistently under-represented, and often brutally marginalised and squeezed out.

Person specification + Job description

  • This opportunity is open to Black or mixed-Black heritage students who are currently enrolled in a UK university and eligible to work in the UK. Preference will be given to Black pre-career researchers enrolled on undergraduate degrees in Geography or Geoscience departments. We welcome applications from students in Human and Physical Geography and the Geosciences.

  • Yes! All interns are paid £15/hour. Travel or accommodation costs are reimbursed.

  • The internship will run from June until September. Interns are expected to commit ~80 hours over the 4 month period. A significant number of these hours will be used in attending and supporting at the Royal Geographical Society Annual Conference or the British Society for Geomorphology Conference, and the Fi Wi Road Fair. Interns will be expected to attend these. Further details can be found in the job description.

  • This is a hybrid internship. Although some things will be online interns will be expected to attend mandatory in-person activities. As such all interns will need to be based in Great Britain for the duration of the internship.

FAQs

Stage 1

To apply for a position on this internship you will need to submit the following for consideration:

  • Your most recent academic transcript

  • A 1,000 word academic writing sample.  The work submitted should cover an area of your interest, it does not need to be purpose written and can be an extract from a previously submitted piece of work.

  • A written statement of motivation (max. 500 words), more details about this can be found at the bottom of this page.

Deadline: 20th April 2026

Stage 2

If successful in the first stage, you will be asked to submit a short video (max. 5 minutes), more details about this can be found at the bottom of this page.

Deadline: 30th May 2026

Successful applicants

All applicants will be asked to provide the details for a reference. Your referee should have an understanding of your ability to remain organised, prioritise effectively, and work as part of a team. Referees will only be contacted if the applicant has been successful. All successful applicants will have been informed by 8th May 2026.

If you have additional queries, or would like to discuss accessibility provisions please contact cynthia@fiwiroad.co.uk

APPLICATION PROCESS

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The below information is also provided in the application portal:

Written prompt

This statement should be in prose, not bullet points. We ask that applicants refrain from using AI in their writing, we are eager to hear your personal voice and thoughts. Max. 500 words.

Your written piece should aim to cover the following points:

  • What do you hope to learn from this opportunity?

  • How do you envisage building on the skills and experience you would gain from this internship in the future?

  • Referencing your own (established or developing) area of research interest, what contributions would you like to make to Geography/Geosciences?

  • Successful applicants will join a cohort of Black Geography PCR interns.  How will you personally contribute to supporting this collective?

Video Questions

For this second stage, we ask that you submit a max. 5 minute long video addressing the following points:

  • Who are you and why are you applying for an internship?

  • Discuss a piece of research that you have contributed to in the past that you were passionate about. How would you like to build on this?

  • What does ‘freeing up Black futures in Geography’ mean to you? How can we begin to achieve this? What challenges do we face?

This video will not be judged on editing or camera quality, we want to get to know a bit more about you, your interests, and your ambitions. We again ask that you refrain from using AI in preparing your video.