Doctoral Research End-User Engagement Internship

Doctoral Research End-User Engagement Internship is an elective unit for post-Confirmation of Candidature doctoral students to enable them to build transferable skills through project involvement with a research end-user. The Australian Government Department of Education, Skills and Employment (DESE) defines a research end-user as an individual, community or organisation outside of academia that will directly use or benefit from the output, outcome or results of the research. This may include businesses, governments, non-governmental organisations (NGOs), communities and community organisations. Research end-users are not other Higher Education Providers (HEP) (i.e. universities); organisations that are affiliates, controlled entities or subsidiaries (such as Research Institutes) of a HEP; or equivalents (international or domestic) of the aforementioned exclusions.

The intention of this placement program is for doctoral research students to engage with relevant research end-user environments to build and apply both disciplinary and transferable skills consistent with their career and professional goals. Students will only be eligible for the Doctoral Research End-User Engagement Internship where they are deemed by their Research Institute to be making quality and timely progress on their doctoral project. The unit (and associated placement) must be completed within the timely enrolment period for the degree and not impede timely submission.