Research Placements and Experience - Experience Practical Research in Action 

STEM Learning and Nuffield Research, in collaboration with The Buckingham School are offering Year 12 students the opportunity to gain key research skills through * Nuffield Research Placements, which is fully funded. The students have the opportunity to make a meaningful contribution towards the work of the host organisation, which is a UK university, through a well-supervised but independent placement relating to an area of science, quantitative social science, computing technology, engineering or mathematics (or combination).

Research Placements

Research Placements are 2-week collaborations with STEM-related knowledge Expert, usually a university Lecturer, on a live research question or area of development in order to produce a scientific research report and a poster.

The placements are offered subject to eligibility criteria.  Students can check their eligibility criteria by following the link below: https://www.nuffieldresearchplacements.org/form/eligibility

The research placement assigned was Machine Learning for Contrail Prediction in Python which involved the use of a logistic regression machine learning model of meteorological data that will be used to predict contrail cirrus from the exhaust of aircraft.  In doing so, the long-term goal of such an algorithm would be to identify flights that cause significant contrail cirrus and change flight paths to mitigate the net warming impacts in aviation. (Esther- ‘Machine Learning for Contrail Prediction in Pyton’-Summer 2024).