A starting point to meet our TD thinkers and become an industry partner.
Short engagements are typically within ‘schools’ – intensive, block-mode subjects running for approximately two to three weeks. Whether you’re interested in hearing undergraduate students’ innovative insights or sharing your expertise first-hand, there are a variety of engagement types including:
- presenting a brief on a relevant organisational challenge which students respond to proposing solutions
- sharing industry trends and insights on a panel with other professionals
- running a workshop on a methodology, concept or area of interest, or
- mentoring students individually or as a team.
Regardless of the type of engagement, you will be supported by the Subject Coordinator and Industry Partnerships team along the way.
Benefits for partners
Since these engagements are an in-kind contribution, TD School ensures a mutual learning experience for industry partners, offering opportunities for:
- learning new methodologies and creative practices
- providing your staff with a rewarding mentoring experience, developing their skills
- access to a talent pool of some of UTS’s brightest students, our TD thinkers
- exposure to students’ out-of-the-box thinking and insights
- being part of award-winning UTS subjects and degrees.
Explore our case studies
Heart on my Sleeve
Heart on my Sleeve joined us as an industry partner in the winter school for first-year students studying the Bachelor of Creative Intelligence and Innovation. Working in transdisciplinary teams, students tackled their challenge - "how do we break down stigma around mental health"?
My Health Record
At a time of heightened media controversy, My Health Record partnered with us for a short engagement, exploring the intersection of health and data with students as they discovered how to turn apparent impossibilities into possibilities.
Celestino
In 2020, Celestino joined us for a short engagement, using Sydney Science Park as a real world scenario for the subject. Students unleashed their limitless thinking to address complex challenges with a flurry of industry-disrupting solutions.