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Aims
UTS Academic Internships are available to PhD candidates who wish to pursue an academic career. The main aim of the scheme is to give recipients a competitive advantage in getting their first academic appointment. This is achieved by providing Academic Interns with the opportunity to develop their potential as teachers over a sustained period and by giving a sound understanding of the educational foundations of teaching and learning at the tertiary level.
A second aim of the scheme is to provide Interns with income during their PhD candidature, either to supplement their scholarships or as a primary source of income.
The Scheme
During their Internship successful applicants:
These activities are carried out concurrently with completion of the PhD. Interns are paid for the hours they teach, at Award rates, and have the same entitlements as casual academic staff paid at an hourly rate. The University pays the fees associated with the Graduate Certificate in Higher Education Teaching and Learning.
Recipients of Internships have the same minimum length of time to complete their PhD as other students but they may have an extra year of maximum time of candidature for the combined PhD and Graduate Certificate in Higher Education Teaching and Learning programme.
Availability of Internships
Most faculties and academic units at UTS offer Academic Internships. The subject areas where Interns are appointed varies from year to year and depends on:
- availability of appropriate research supervision in the applicant's field;
- capacity to match student teaching expertise and teaching opportunities.
Several faculties offer additional benefits to Interns, for example, financial support for the research project, conference attendance funds.
Application and Selection
To be eligible for consideration as an Academic Intern, applicants need to be accepted as a PhD student and be eligible for admission to the Graduate Certificate in Higher Education Teaching and Learning. Application forms for the Scheme may be submitted concurrently with a PhD application following confirmation of the availability of an Internship in the applicant's area within the faculty or Institute.
Interns are chosen, on a competitive basis, by a University-wide Committee with representation from the University Graduate School, Centre for Learning and Teaching and the faculties. The criteria are based on:
- academic merit of the applicant;
- commitment to pursuing an academic career.
How to Apply
Preparation of an application for an Academic Internship requires:
- discussion with a faculty or the Institute for International Studies to identify a research project and potential supervisors, and preparation of the normal application papers for admission to the UTS Doctoral program. Contact the faculties or the Institute for International Studies directly for these discussions.
- discussion with the faculty or the Institute for International Studies regarding potential to match applicant's subject expertise and teaching opportunities available. If and when the faculty/Institute for International Studies indicates it can provide teaching opportunities within the parameters of the Academic Internship scheme, an application form for an Academic Internship should be lodged with the University Graduate School.
Where possible, applications for admission to the Doctoral program and the Academic Internship scheme should be lodged simultaneously.
This program is currently under review and will not be offered in 2007.
Enquiries
Academic Internships Scheme
University Graduate School
Anita Anderson
Scholarships Administrator
Tel: (02) 9514 1694
Fax: (02) 9514 1588
E-mail: ugs@uts.edu.au
Areas for specific doctoral research
should be directed to the relevant faculty
Tel: (02) 9514 2000
Graduate Certificate in Higher Education in Teaching and Learning
Institute for Interactive Multimedia and Learning at UTS
Tel: (02) 9514 2198
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