PhD student, and former CFP intern, Phoebe Swift tells us about her route into a career in tree genomics…
Intern Blogs
Intern diary – Cas on elm genomics
Find out about Cas’ internship learning bioinformatics techniques to support our understanding of the elm genome.
Intern diary – Josh the nematode nerd
Josh became quite an expert in identifying tiny microscopic worms!
Intern diary – Katy on methods to detect a bacterial threat
This National Plant Health Week – find out about Katy’s internship experience working on lab methods to detect bacteria that are a potential threat to our trees.
Intern diary – Apoorva on annotating the genome of an ash tree
This National Plant Health Week find out about Kew intern Apoorva’s tree health work supporting genomics research into high and low susceptibility to ash dieback.
Intern Diary – Catherine on Mapping Elm
This National Plant Health Week, find out about Catherine’s intern project mapping elm that survived Dutch elm disease in the UK.
Intern Diary – Jack on public perceptions of ‘lost’ tree species
During National Plant Health Week, Find out about Jack’s experience as a CFP intern working on a social science project on elm trees.
A Day of Discovery: Centre for Forest Protection Interns Explore Wakehurst’s Millennium Seed Bank and Gardens
Last week, our six Centre for Forest Protection interns had an inspiring and informative visit to Kew’s wild botanic garden at Wakehurst. This unique opportunity gave them a behind-the-scenes look at the Millennium Seed Bank, a world-renowned conservation facility dedicated to safeguarding plant biodiversity.
Intern diary – Phoebe
Phoebe tells us what she got up to during her internship at Kew.
Intern Diary – Sian
Read about Sian’s six months as a Centre for Forest Protection intern.
Intern Diary – Eve
Find out about what our intern Eve got up to on her six month Centre for Forest Protection placement with Forest Research.
Sharing Expertise with Interns and Postdoctoral Researchers
Our interns had an exciting week. They presented their projects to our science teams and then had two days of visits to find out more about research at Kew and Forest Research. They were joined at the Forest Research tour by three of our Postdoctoral Researchers from Kew wanting to find out more about their partner organisation in the Centre for Forest Protection.
Intern diary – Nicola
Nicola made a video diary of her fieldwork
Intern diary – Alice P
Alice tells us about her experiences of fieldwork and data analysis
Intern diary – Alice J
Alice tells us about what she learnt during her CFP internship at Kew
Intern diary – Camila
Find out about Camila’s experience as a CFP intern
Intern Diary – Freya
Find out about Freya’s experience as a CFP intern.
Branching out with the Centre for Forest Protection – Our first cohort of interns
CFP Education and Training Officer, Suzanne Sancisi-Frey, tells us about the first CFP internship programme
















