Scientific Research Internship

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Join the research team to contribute to innovative women's health projects while developing practical skills and gaining hands-on experience in a growing company.

Scientific Research Internship

📆 22 June - 31st July : Up to 40 hours per week but we’re flexible on the total number of hours.
🌍 UK, Remote-first

🤝This is an unpaid internship focused on learning, mentorship and real-world experience.

💖 Why Hertility? 

Hertility was born out of a need for preventative, personalised and dedicated expert healthcare across a woman’s hormonal lifespan. Hertility’s at-home diagnostic testing, telemedicine, treatments, prescriptions, and clinical services provide advanced insights into reproductive health, fertility decline, and the onset of menopause, as well as the diagnosis of 18 conditions. Hertility reduces diagnosis times for some conditions from nine years to six days. 🚀

Having done over 22 clinical studies and published in leading scientific journals and presented at over 25 National and International scientific and clinical conferences, Hertility is committed to expanding its research and clinical programmes, deepening our understanding of reproductive health and influencing policy. 

By setting a new standard of scientific rigour and education in women’s health, we’re nurturing the Mother of all Movements. One powered by a new generation of women backing themselves, their bodies and their life choices, from menstruation through menopause. 

🌸 Why You’ll Love This Internship 

As a Scientific Research intern, you’ll join the Research Team for the summer of 2026 and play an integral role in our growing company. You’ll work on meaningful projects that make a real impact on women’s health, gain hands-on experience, develop practical skills relevant to your studies, and be part of a passionate team that values curiosity, collaboration, and growth.

Requirements

🌟 What You’ll Be Doing 

Hertility is rooted in a fundamental, scientific imperative: to definitively move the needle forward in women's health research. You will work on one of our research projects helping the research team put our data-driven insights from the world's largest female and reproductive health databases into the scientific community. Translating complex topics and data into evidence based insights to be utilised across the business and by the wider scientific community through scientific abstracts, manuscripts and communications. You will be supporting the team with:

  • Data analysis and visualisation: Perform quantitative analysis (and potentially qualitative assessment) of survey, clinical or aggregated data 
  • Literature reviews: Conduct traditional or systematic literature reviews
  • Scientific writing: Assist in drafting summaries, abstracts and sections of scientific manuscripts suitable for publications
  • Scientific communications: making valuable research accessible to the company and our community

This is a course related internship, so your work will align with your academic learning and provide practical experience relevant to your studies.

🎯 What We’re Looking For 

You’ll thrive if you’re passionate about fertility and reproductive health and bring:

📜 Relevant Experience: 

  • Studying for a degree in reproductive science, life sciences, women's health or a related field
  • Basic quantitative statistical analysis (and qualitative - desirable)
  • Data visualisation skills 
  • Confident with scientific literature 
  • Strong written communication skills, including scientific and report writing 
  • Ability / experience with R studios or Python (desirable)

💡 Detailed Led:  Good attention to detail and organisational skills with an ability to keep to deadlines.

🌟 Team Work: Ability to work independently and as part of a wider team and contribute to group discussions, meetings and journal clubs.

💪 Your Team 

You will report directly to Esther, one of our Senior Scientific Research Associates. You’ll also work closely with the Research team.

⏰  Your working hours 

We're flexible according to your needs but the suggested working hours are 28 hours per week from Monday to Friday, with an early finish on Friday.

Ready to Apply? 📅

  • Interviews Begin: 23rd February

Interview Process:

  1. Initial Phone Interview
    A 15-minute conversation with a member of our Talent Team to get to know you better and answer any initial questions.
  2. Hiring Manager + Task Interview
    A structured interview with Esther, our Senior Scientific Research Associate and Zoë, our Scientific Research Associate, focusing on your experience and key competencies relevant to the role.
  3. Final Interview
    A final stage interview will be two parts with a 15 minute conversation each with two of our Co-Founders, Dr.Natalie Getreu our COO and Dr. Helen O’Neill our CEO.

Start Date: 22nd June 2026

Benefits

🧬 Free Hertility Services: Complimentary hormone and fertility tests for you, plus discounts for friends and family.

🌈 Our Culture & Values
At Hertility, we’re all about ovary-acting with purpose! We believe in a world where every womb has access to the healthcare it needs. We’re bold, focused, dependable and proud - lifting each other up, working with heart and staying true to our mission.

🌍 We’re Here to Support You

At Hertility, we want every candidate to feel comfortable and confident throughout the hiring process . If you need any adjustments, whether that’s interview timings, communication preferences, or accessibility support, just drop us a line. Let us know how we can help! 

🤝 Diversity & Inclusion

Just like the diversity in every cell, Hertility thrives on a range of perspectives and experiences. We’re proud to be an equal opportunity employer and celebrate the unique contributions each team member brings to our work. 

Perks & Benefits Extracted with AI

  • Free fertility services and discounts: Free Hertility Services: Complimentary hormone and fertility tests for you, plus discounts for friends and family.

Hertility is a women’s health company built by women, for women. We’re shaping the future of reproductive healthcare by pioneering unique diagnostic testing that provides data-driven and advanced insights into reproductive health, fertility decline and the onset of menopause. We provide expert advice, education and access to care - all from the comfort of your home.31% of women will suffer from a reproductive health issue at some point and through our research, we aim to reduce the time to diagnosis through advanced at-home testing and specialist gynaecological care. We tailor pathways to the individual's reproductive goals, whether it be to explore their ovarian health and fertility options or overall hormonal health, such as confirming a PCOS diagnosis. Currently, we can diagnose 9 of the most common gynae pathologies which may lead to reduced fertility and signpost gynae cancers.Ultimately, our aim is to change attitudes around reproductive health, both for individuals and in the workplace, and to encourage women to be proactive by tracking their reproductive health. We’re calling this the Reproductive Revolution!

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