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The TD School invites industry partners to join with students in their transdisciplinary learning, collaborating to generate new insights, perspectives and possibilities. By working on real, complex and emerging challenges set by industry partners, students gain theoretical knowledge and practical experience utilising a variety of disciplinary practices. The opportunities for industry to engage with the TD School’s educational programs is expanding with a range of degrees, short courses and enterprise learning offerings catering for learners of all ages.
From teaching and learning to research projects, there is a range of opportunities for industry to engage with TD School. Explore opportunities by course, if you’re interested to engage with students from a specific degree, experience level or skill set, or by engagement type if you have a certain timeframe or touchpoint in mind.
By course
Bachelor of Creative Intelligence and Innovation (BCII)
The Bachelor of Creative Intelligence and Innovation (BCII) is a unique combined degree, teaching high-level critical and creative thinking. Students are equipped with leading-edge capabilities that are highly valued in the globalised world such as; invention, complexity, innovation, future-scenario building and entrepreneurship. Pairing the Bachelor of Creative Intelligence and Innovation with one of 27 core degrees from across UTS, students undertake a future-facing, world-first, transdisciplinary degree that explores multiple perspectives from diverse fields. BCII coursework integrates a range of industry experiences, real-world projects and self-initiated proposals – readying students to address the complex challenges and untapped opportunities of our times.
This multi-award-winning degree has changed the face of education at UTS and spurred the creation of TD School, and the development of the Creative Intelligence and Strategic Innovation suite of learning for professionals and organisations, the Diploma in Innovation and the UTS-wide TD electives program.
Opportunities to get involved
- Partner challenge – Be exposed to bright BCII students in the first three years of their degree. Industry partners are invited to provide a challenge brief and professional practice expertise in ‘schools’ running in Summer and Winter, which are two to three-week intensive blocks of learning.
- Innovation internships – Innovation internships run twice a year, in Summer and Winter. Industry partners have the opportunity to host for a minimum of 105 hours (approx. three weeks) one or more final year BCII students.
- Industry Innovation Project – Over a semester, final year BCII students work in small transdisciplinary teams (up to six students with a mix of core degrees), collaboratively developing ideas and strategies to tackle complex, organisational challenges brought to us by industry partners.
Master of Data Science and Innovation (MDSi)
The Master of Data Science and Innovation (MDSi) addresses a global talent gap for people with analytics and data science knowledge, a gap predicted to grow significantly as the future of work is realised. This unique transdisciplinary program is the first of its kind in Australia where creativity and innovation are integral components. The course integrates diverse industry perspectives and aligns data value with human values and ethics to shape future data science practice.
Opportunities to get involved
- iLabs – iLabs invites partners to collaborate with MDSi students on a data project. There are two iLab subjects during the course offering students the opportunity to design investigations, utilise contemporary data, use discovery techniques and large complex data sets to create value for organisations.
- Data Science internships – If you’re seeking bright, data-science talent for your organisation, this new internship subject allows one or more MDSi students to be immersed in your team during a placement of 100–200 hours.
Diploma in Innovation
The Diploma in Innovation is unique to UTS. It was created in direct response to industry demand for innovation graduates. The Diploma in Innovation develops students’ capabilities to collaborate across disciplines and sectors, think big and innovate. A dynamic transdisciplinary course where students from all faculties come together to experientially learn innovation, entrepreneurship and creative intelligence. Subjects run in three-week blocks in Winter and Summer sessions, and students complete the Diploma alongside their UTS bachelors degree of choice.
Opportunities to get involved
- Partner challenge – Be exposed to bright Diploma students during their three-year course. Industry partners are invited to provide a challenge brief and professional practice expertise in ‘schools’ running in Summer and Winter, which are two to three-week intensive blocks of learning.
By engagement type
Short engagements
Whether your organisation is looking for an initial touchpoint to engage with students or as an individual you would like to share your expertise, get a taste of what it’s like to be an industry partner with a short engagement.
- Industry guest – Share your industry insights in a one-off engagement, being on an industry panel, running a workshop or mentoring a student team during a subject.
- Partner challenge – Industry partners are invited to provide a challenge brief and hear students’ solutions in response in ‘schools’ running in Summer and Winter, which are two to three-week intensive blocks of learning. This is an opportunity to be exposed to bright Bachelor of Creative Intelligence and Innovation or Diploma of Innovation students in the first three years of their degree.
Project-based engagements
Projects offer industry partners a unique opportunity to deep-dive into one of your organisational challenges with a team of students. These longer engagements (10–12 weeks) are high touch points and result in unique outcomes for partners.
- Industry Innovation Project – Over a semester, Bachelor of Creative Intelligence and Innovation students work in small transdisciplinary teams (up to six students with a mix of core degrees), collaboratively developing ideas and strategies to tackle the complex challenges presented by industry partners.
- Electives - Multi-year partnership with the opportunity to reach students across the entire UTS student population.
Internships
Internships allow students to put theory into practice as they develop their own transdisciplinary value proposition. In TD School, there are two courses that have internship subjects as part of the curriculum.
- Innovation internships – Innovation internships run twice a year in Summer and Winter. Industry partners have the opportunity to work for a minimum of 105 hours (approx. three weeks) with one or more final year Bachelor of Creative Intelligence and Innovation students.
- Data Science internships – If you’re seeking bright, data-science talent for your organisation, this new internship subject allows one or more Master of Data Science and Innovation students to be immersed in your team during a placement of 100–200 hours.
Multi-year partnerships
TD School is launching transdisciplinary elective subjects for all UTS students from 2022. Students from across all UTS courses and disciplines will have the opportunity to take a transdisciplinary elective subject, immersing themselves in real-world challenges from industry partners to make their mark at the cutting edge of innovation. This is a substantial growth opportunity for the TD School to reach all students across UTS with transdisciplinary problem solving and part of the UTS 2027 strategy to enable all UTS students to develop a distinctive transdisciplinary graduate attribute.
Working with industry partners, TD School has so far launched four transdisciplinary elective subjects, with another four currently in development:
- TD: Reframing, remixing, reimagining society
- TD: Envisioning futures worth wanting
- TD: Sustainability in an interconnected world
- TD: Change-making for social impact
Research
TD School holds an established track record at the leading edge of education, research, and their integration. We work with stakeholders as co-creators of learning experiences and research projects to tap into creative responses to complex societal challenges. We have extensive expertise in designing and facilitating context-specific and adaptive workshops with distinctive tools and methods. TD research is ideally suited to problem spaces that are open, complex, dynamic and networked. It goes beyond solving discrete problems by opening doors to new questions and digging deeper at root causes instead of targeting symptoms.
Learning for professionals
In a time of unprecedented transition, professionals are facing new types of complex challenges that are outpacing our normal innovation capacity. In this time of constant change, learning over one’s lifetime is the best way to future-proof your career. TD courses are not for people in a particular job or sector; they are for people who understand that business as usual no longer works and are open to learning new ideas and practices and meeting some fantastic people interested in the same.
Our learning programs are practical, industry-relevant and forward thinking. Taught online by UTS TD School academics and industry experts; the content is the nexus of research, learning and practice. For professionals looking to explore your own learning with us, jump to the professional learning section of our website.
Next steps?
If you're looking for more information about a specific engagement or would like to find the right opportunity for your organisation, we're here to have a chat. Get in touch – email us at TDSchoolPartnerships@uts.edu.au.