The International Coalition of Sites of Conscience (ICSC), is a global network of historic sites, museums and memory initiatives that connect past struggles to today's movements for social and environmental justice.

The ICSC works to promote social justice and a universal culture of human rights through:

• Empowering marginalised communities
• Countering hate speech and violent extremism
• Ensuring we preserve the memory of victims of human rights violations

Our programme with the ICSC provides student internships with sites around the globe. These internships are offered in-person and virtually to UG (stage 2 onwards), PGT and PGR students.

What to expect

The internships are varied and combine both work and learning activities.

Previous students have interned at:

• The Human Rights Media Centre in South Africa focusing on the analysis of social justice and human rights violations to create meaningful content for multi-media dissemination
• Asociacion Caminos de la Memoria in Peru, working on communication strategies to improve working relationships with the sites network of volunteers
• Virtually with the Women’s Rights Initiative in Uganda, researching sustainability networks and ideas to apply to the sites sustainability farming projects

This is a growing initiative and a truly unique experience at Newcastle.

These internships provide an opportunity for students to gain valuable work experience with international organisations. Member sites benefit from the international perspectives, academic expertise, and skills of Newcastle students.

Next steps and how to apply

Applications for virtual and in-person internships in Summer 2025 are now open. Students can find a full list of internship sites in the ICSC Internship Brochure 2025. Undergraduate students (stage 2 onwards), master’s and PhD students are eligible to apply.

Internships are open to students of all academic backgrounds; however some sites require some specific skills and/or qualities from their intern – make sure to check the brochure thoroughly before applying.

The application process is detailed in the ICSC Internship Brochure 2025. The deadline to apply is 23:59 on Friday 10^th January 2025.

 

If you have any questions regarding this opportunity, please email Lucy Bell on Global.Opportunities@ncl.ac.uk or book an appointment here.

What our students say

To find out more about the ICSC internships and our previous student’s experiences, read the ICSC Student Testimonials.