At Swinburne, we welcome students in Year 9 and 10 to participate in work experience at the university. These one-week placements give students the opportunity to:

  • develop employability skills
  • explore possible career options
  • understand employer expectations
  • build self-understanding, maturity, independence and self-confidence.

Work experience areas

Our work experience programs run in the following areas.

Program overview

Students will have a chance to:

  • learn about differential equations
  • obtain hands-on experience with MATLAB as a high-level programming language
  • apply maths to solve real world problems in mathematical biology. 
     
2023 program

The program will run once this year on the following dates:

  • Week 1: Monday 15 – Friday 19 May 2023.

To apply

Please send your expression of interest including one to two sentences on why you'd like to do work experience with the Maths team at Swinburne to schoolprograms@swinburne.edu.au. 

Applications are collated and reviewed after the application window closes. Candidates will be notified in late April.

Program overview

Students will have a chance to:

  • search for pulsar signatures in radio observations
  • classify galaxy morphologies
  • identify strong gravitational lenses
  • search for peculiar motions in simulated galaxy mergers
  • produce visualisations of galaxies and galaxy groups
  • participate in real-time remote observations
  • attend scientific talks and group meetings
  • prepare teaching materials.

2023 program: Places are limited! 

We are currenting accepting applications for the following weeks:

  • Week 1: Tuesday 11 – Friday 21 April (school holidays)
  • Week 2: Monday 17 – Friday 21st April (school holidays)
  • Week 3: Monday 15 – Friday 19 May
  • Week 4: Monday 26 – Friday 30 June (school holidays)
  • Week 5: Monday 10 – Friday 14 July
  • Week 6: Monday 24 – Friday 28 July
  • Week 7: Monday 31 July – Friday 4 August
  • Week 8: Monday 11 – Friday 15 September
  • Week 9: Monday 18 – Friday 22 September (school holidays)
  • Week 10: Monday 25 – Friday 29 September (school holidays)
  • Week 11: Monday 2 – Friday 6 October
  • Week 12: Monday 27 November – Friday 1 December.
     
To apply

To apply to participate in the program, please send your cover letter, resume and available dates to CASworkexperience@swinburne.edu.au.

Program overview

Students will learn about:

  • chemistry
  • DNA, PCR, electrophoresis
  • cell culture
  • organic chemistry and analytical instruments
  • materials characterisation
  • confocal and fluoro microscopy
  • microbiology streaking, gram stain, and ID of colonies.
     
2023 program

The program will run twice this year on the following dates:

  • Week 1: Monday 26 – Friday 30 June 2023
  • Week 2: Monday 3 – Friday 7 July 2023.
     
To apply

Applications for the biotechnology and biochemistry program are now closed. Applicants will be notified in early March with their result.

Ready to discover new things?

If you are in Year 9 or 10, join the Swinburne Science Experience to see where a career in science can take you.

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