The primary task will be to update an existing rapid evidence review on women and girls’ safety on public transport, carrying out new searches and capturing additional areas of relevance to the topic. This will involve becoming familiar with and building on existing work done to improve women and girls’ safety on public transport by Transport Scotland.  
 
The methodology for this work will be a desk-based literature review looking at both academic and policy literature on this subject, as well as targeted conversations with relevant Scottish Government and Transport Scotland officials.  The intern will have the opportunity to: 
 
• build on a body of research across women’s safety and accessible travel 
• define areas for inclusion in the report in collaboration with relevant colleagues across Transport Scotland and the Scottish Government. 
• highlight best practice and draw out concrete actions taken for creating safer transport and travel environments  
• consider how existing and past initiatives have been recorded and evaluated 
 
The candidate will also gain experience of providing some general support and experience of working within the social research team – including updating an existing resource, which details recent public consultation, social research and impact assessments carried out by Transport Scotland. Additional tasks may also develop during the internship in response to the demands on Transport Scotland’s Social Research Team, within which the successful candidate will based.