Industry projects

Work Integrated Learning in the classroom

• This Work Integrated Learning (WIL) format invites you as an industry expert into the classroom to present a case study or real-world problem from your organisation. Groups of students, under the guidance of FASS Academics, work on a solution whilst receiving authentic feedback from you as the industry partner.
• This complex and authentic problem-solving activity is an opportunity for you and your organisation to mentor and access a large pool of potential future talent, as well as to gain fresh and innovative ideas from university.

Recent industry projects

Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning (MEL)

As part of the whole-of-course WIL structure embedded in the degree, students in the Bachelor of Sustainability and Environment in the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (FASS) engage in problem-solving activities in their second-year MEL subject.

Industry partners present an authentic problem from their organisation or industry to the students at the start of session. The students work on the solution throughout semester under the guidance of the subject coordinator, with a mid-semester industry feedback session and a final presentation to industry partners at the end of semester.  

Latest project
View our MEL student's final presentation to the NSW Department of Primary Industries (PDF, 1.2 MB) to address the Mismatch in NSW between scientific evidence and community perceptions about environmental threats in the coastal zone to inform change.

I was impressed with the thought that the groups had put into the problem and how they used the MEL approach.

Dr Belinda Curley
Manager, Marine Estate Monitoring & Evaluation (Community Wellbeing)
NSW Department of Primary Industries 

I have never seen students as engaged with their work as they were when we were tackling the studio problems. This is a real-world application of Monitoring Evaluation and Learning principles to problems of sustainable development, for organisations that are the kinds of places students might work in the future, talking with external partners who have the kinds of jobs students might have in future.

Professor Kate Barclay
Academic Coordinator of Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning