A key role for the Climate Centre in the Red Cross Red Crescent Movement is to foster evidence-based knowledge that informs action on the ground and provides a basis for good decision-making through close academic collaborations.
This includes engagement in our internship programme with young academics who are enrolled in a master’s- or PhD-level course at university. Our interns are a diverse community of learners from all disciplines and backgrounds, as is our team itself.
We offer three- to six-month placements to successful candidates, who are supervised throughout their work on with current projects and research within our priority areas by the relevant technical expert; we also offer a small stipend.
Specific or specialist vacancies for interns are advertised on this page (see links below).
Short placements for young academics
Sanam Ayub Khan
Sanam Ayub Khan is an MSc student in global health and development at University College London. As an intern with the Climate Centre, she supported reports that synthesize evidence on the health impacts of environmental and climate hazards in South Sudan and helped draft trigger proposals for dengue prevention in Senegal.
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“My internship with the Climate Centre gave me hands-on experience I couldn’t have gained from a classroom: leading interviews and focus group discussions with communities” – Saugat Karki (Nepal, 2026)
“I gained valuable experience working on climate and health as well as social prote
ction. One of the stand-out aspects of the Climate Centre is the approachability of the team: they are genuinely interested in helping interns learn and make the most out of their internship” – Abhinav Banthiya (India, 2023)
“I have learned so much with the Climate Centre and it has been a great introduction to the humanitarian field” – Hannah Forkell (US, 2020)
Chloe Crothers
Chloe Crothers, an American, has interned with the Climate Centre since September 2025 in Sweden where she is working on her master’s degree in disaster risk management and climate adaption at Lund University. She says one focus of her work with the Climate Centre has been researching how whether visual design elements in early warning messages can improve comprehension and protective action where language is a barrier.
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Linking science and humanitarian work around the world
Two master’s students, Carolina Pereira Marghidan and John Ifejube, talk about their internships at the Faculty of Geo-Information Science and Earth Observation at the University of Twente, Netherlands. Carolina embarked on an extraordinary internship at the Climate Centre, while John interned with 510, also part of the Red Cross and named after the 510 million square kilometres of the earth’s surface. (Video: Seddle/University of Twente)
Internships at ITC