<< Back to search results

Curriculum Enhancement Internship: The Joy Index: Co-Creating an Atlas of Engaging Teaching at LJMU

Details


1105829


Liverpool John Moores University


29/11/2025


Other - See Job


Approx 4 hours per week between 19th January and 24th April (teaching weeks only)


Smart Casual

Pay


£12.83


£1.55

Description

Role
*Ringfenced to current LJMU undergraduate or postgraduate taught students only*

 
*Please answer the Application Question noted in the person Specification on your covering letter*

The Joy Index: Co-Creating an Atlas of Engaging Teaching at LJMU

The Joy Index is a cross-faculty project exploring where intellectual joy already exists at LJMU, what sparks it, and how we can design for it more intentionally. You’ll work with staff from the Business School, Education, and Sport & Exercise Sciences to map joyful learning across the university.

Interns will help co-create: The Joy Index Framework An Atlas of Joyful Teaching (12–15 staff–student case studies)Creative, accessible resources for colleagues across LJMU

You’ll be part of a small, supportive team working in partnership with staff to understand and showcase the conditions that make learning feel engaging, energising, and meaningful

Duties and responsibilities

As a student intern, you will:

  • Help define what “intellectual joy” means in the context of LJMU teaching
  • Conduct interviews, focus groups, and short surveys with students
  • Gather stories and examples of joyful teaching moments
  • Write or contribute to case studies for the Atlas
  • Create visual, narrative, or digital materials for the Joy Index (e.g. Canva graphics, short videos, story-based outputs)
  • Support dissemination and resource development ahead of July 2026

This internship is both a research role and a creative role. You will be mentored throughout and will gain experience in qualitative research, collaborative design, storytelling, and educational enhancement.

Skills and experience

We welcome applications from any current LJMU undergraduate or postgraduate taught student who is eligible to work in the UK.

You may have:

  • Creative strengths, such as: Canva or visual design skills
  • Storytelling or narrative writing
  • Illustration, photography, or video editing
  • An ability to translate ideas into engaging formats
  • Research strengths, such as: Listening and facilitation
  • Experience (or interest) in interviews, focus groups, or qualitative research
  • Writing reflective or descriptive case studiesAn interest in understanding how teaching and learning feel from a student perspective

We are looking to build a team with a mix of creative and research abilities. This internship is an educational and professional development opportunity and will be supported closely by staff.

Application Question  “Tell us about a moment in an LJMU class when learning felt joyful or really came alive for you. What was happening in the teaching or learning environment that made it feel that way?”(Max 250–300 words)

Location
LJMU

Additional information
*Ringfenced to current LJMU undergraduate or postgraduate taught students only*

*Please answer the Application Question noted in the person Specification on your covering letter*

Applications close at 11:59pm on Sunday 4th January 2026.

Interviews will be held on 12th January 2026. 

Apply for job