Internships

An internship is a short term opportunitity at a placement that helps you gain work experience. Interning abroad provides you with an enriching opportunity that allows you to develop essential skills while you broaden your global perspective. 

Queen Elizabeth Scholarship Funding

The Canadian Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Scholarships (QES) program aims to mobilize a community of young leaders to create lasting impacts at home and abroad. The program helps develop the next generation of innovative leaders and community builders by enabling international academic, professional and cross-cultural experiences in over 150 countries. The QES program is led by the Rideau Hall Foundation in collaboration with Universities Canada and with founding support from Community Foundations of Canada.

Internship Details

The links between climate change, community resilience, and human migration will be explored by 23 Wilfrid Laurier University students and eight University of Ghana students through an exchange partnership made possible by $300,000 in funding from the Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Scholarship program.

The partnership applies a human rights lens to climate-induced migration. Laurier undergraduate students from Geography and Environmental Studies, Human Rights, and Global Studies will travel to Ghana for 60-day internships facilitated by two University of Ghana research centres: the Centre for Migration Studies and the Centre for Climate Change and Sustainability Studies. Graduate students affiliated with these centres will study at Laurier as international students for a semester, receiving faculty supervision for their research projects and enrolling in graduate courses.

For more information and to apply. 

Please reach out to globalengagement@wlu.ca for any questions.