Academic research opportunties exist on campus through funding from
EPSRC (the engineering and physical science research council, which
funds all areas of engineering and mathematics, plus areas of physics
other than particle physics, nuclear physics and astrophysics), the
Nuffield Foundation (a charitable foundation with a bursary scheme for
summer research projects by undergraduates in most areas), and the
Royal Astronomical Society (which funds only astronomy and geophysics
related topics).  There may be additional opportunities.  If you
become aware of any, please let me know.  If you are interested in
research topics on campus, you should consider it your responsibility
to ask around to academic staff members if they might be interested in
a summer student.

SEPNET funds bursaries for summer research as well.  These can only be
taken by students going from one SEPNET institution to another.
Please note also, that for astronomy research, Oxford and Portsmouth
are affiliated with SEPNET, so it may be possible to do a project at
those institutions as well.

For industrial work, SEPNET sponsors some summer bursaries.  I will
also attempt to compile a list of companies that might be interested
in hiring students for the summer outside the SEPNET process.  I am
already aware of one, Infrared Laboratories, which is based in Tucson,
Arizona, in the United States.  They make cryogenic systems and
infrared detector systems, mostly for astronomical applications, but
also for some other applications.  They cannot pay you unless you have
dual US nationality, but indicated that for a good student, they could
probably arrange to cover expenses, so that the student wouldn't be
out of pocket for the summer.