Looking for a different type of graduate who can innovate across disciplinary fields?
Innovation internships
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Our Innovation Internships brochure (PDF) for more information about 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
My name is Joseph.
Hi I'm Chloe.
My name is Annette.
Having the students here was an amazing experience. Joe, Chloe and Annette did a fantastic job.
We love working with our students and we really hope that everyone else does.
The feedback we've been getting is that they're making an extraordinary contribution to the workplaces that they're going out to.
I now have the skills and the confidence to be able to go out into any workplace and be given any problem and any team and have conficence as to how I can approach solving a problem.
I learned to be comfortable with failure and making mistakes.
I was a little bit apprehensive about the challenge, in terms of, okay we've got three students coming - I'm going to really need to hand-hold. However, what I learnt was, by appreciating upfront what the students were looking to achieve, we could then design an experience where they could all bring to the table their own knowledge, perspectives and experiences.
My mentor Nathan- it felt that anytime I wasn't able to answer or get more information or something, he would always connect me to someone within CBA or even outside of CBA.
Trust university students with professional problems.
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?
- Find out how to recruit TD School interns.
- Check out our resources for internship hosts to support you in recruiting and onboarding TD School interns.
Next steps?
Get in touch with us to discuss how an internship could work for your organisation and confirm timeframes – email TDSchoolPartnerships@uts.edu.au.
Ready to offer an internship? Review our resource for recruiting BCII interns.
