Innovation internships

Internships offer a mutual learning experience for partners and students. Students learn from real-world practices in your organisation, and in return offer a fresh and dynamic approach to complex problems. We are seeking partners who are prepared to co-create an internship experience with our Bachelor of Creative Intelligence and Innovation (BCII) students.

We invite organisations to consider hosting students for internships outside their ‘normal’ disciplinary talent pool. Consider the discoveries and insights that come from a fresh perspective. Our BCII students are learning to work across disciplines to be future change-makers; handling complexity and promoting adaptability.

Upcoming dates

In their final year, BCII students can undertake internships for course credit over Summer and Winter:

• Innovation Internship A – between 4 November 2024 and 7 February 2025. Note: there is a blackout period from 2–13 December 2024 where students are unable to undertake internship hours due to an intensive subject.

  Students must have their placements confirmed by 11 December 2024

• Innovation Internship B – between 10 June 2025 and 25 July 2025

  Students must have their placements confirmed by 20 June 2025

BCII attracts and develops students that are curious about thinking and doing things differently. They are equipped with tools and processes that let them solve contemporary commercial problems ahead of the years of experience that is usually required.

– Murray Stubbs, Co-founder and Systemic Designer, Snowmelt

Explore our internship case study

Bendelta: An internship experience with real impact

With a bit of planning, Bendelta created an internship experience where tandem learning was able to occur for both students and Bendelta staff.

People often talk about cognitive diversity, and how to deal with it, but one day I was watching this group of twenty-something-year-olds who were actually just doing it as they worked together, as if it was second nature. 

– Nina Dejmanee, an organisational psychologist at Bendelta.

Read how Bendelta hosted six BCII interns and created  an internship experience with real impact

 

Internship requirements

Find out the requirements for hosting a TD School intern.

Ready to advertise an internship?

1. Find out how to recruit TD School interns.
2. Check out our resources for internship hosts to support you in recruiting and onboarding TD School interns.