SPICe hosts a number of PhD students every year. Students are recruited via the UK Research and Innovation Policy Internships Scheme.
SPICe works together with the Parliamentary Office of Science and Technology (POST) at the UK Parliament, the Research and Information Service (RaISe) in the Northern Ireland Assembly, and the National Assembly for Wales Research Service, to select and interview potential candidates for UK Research and Innovation internship placements. These placements are hosted by each of the four parliaments/assemblies.
Students are expected to produce at least one briefing paper.
More details of the scheme can be found on the UK Research and Innovation website
Courtney Aiken
Human Rights and the Environment (published November 2019)
Kate Ashley
Wild Salmon (published August 2019)
Emma Butcher
Health and Social Care Integration: Spending and Performance Update (Published June 2019)
John Ferrier
EU Emissions Trading System and the impacts of Brexit
Hildigunnur Anna Hall
'Transitions of young people with service and care needs between child and adult services in Scotland'.
Gareth Thomas
May to July 2018
SB 18-46 Risk Management in Agriculture
Fiona Coyle
April to June 2018
The Regulation and Governance of Medical Devices in Scotland
James Walker
September to November 2017
SB 17-79 Negotiation of Trade Agreements in Federal Countries
Kate Grant
March to June 2017
SB 17-69 How can we reduce obesity in Scotland?
Damon Davies
January to March 2017
SB 17-22 Drug misuse
PE1637 on Prevention of ship-to-ship oil transfers and trust port accountability
Morgan Tatchell-Evans
October to November 2016
SB 16-102 Implications for Leaving the EU - Forestry
SB 16-93 Scottish Forestry
Roseannah Murphy
Autumn 2016
SB 16-76 Child and Adolescent Mental Health –Trends and Key Issues
SB 16-75 Child and Adolescent Mental Health Legislation and Policy
Joe Ryan-Hume
Autumn-Winter 2015
SB 15-84 Food for Thought: Scotland and Genetically Modified Organisms (GMOs)
Samatha Pollock
Summer 2015
SB 15-38 International Perspectives on Land Reform
Declan Finney
SB 15-40 Good for climate, good for health
Reuben Nowell
Spring 2014
SB 14-36 Mental Health in Scotland
Carla-Leanne Washbourne
Spring-Summer 2013
SB 13-41 Treatment options for residual waste
Alan Mueller
SB 13-37 Pandemic Influenza (‘Flu’)
Theresa Meacham
Autumn 2012
SB 12-71 Renewable Energy: Community Benefit and Ownership
Gary Kerr
Summer 2012
SB 12-47 Climate Change-The Role of the Individual
Rudra Kapila
Spring-Summer 2012
SB 12-37 Offshore Renewable Energy
Susanna Ebmeier
Spring 2012
SB 12-28 Peatlands and Climate Change
SB 12-26 Climate Change and Health in Scotland
Lorna Street
Spring 2010
SB 10-33 Invasive Non-Native Species
John Dowens
Autumn-Winter 2008
SB 08-72 Climate Change: Emissions Trading
SB 08-37 Greenhouse Gas Emissions from Land Use, Land Use Change and Forestry