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- Jason Ford
- Strategic Programs Coordinator (Industry)
- T: +61 (2) 9850 1893
- E: gr.industry@mq.edu.au
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Experience the many benefits that Macquarie's graduate research students can bring to your organisation, and support them as they transition into the workplace while completing their Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) or Masters of Research (MRes).
Graduate research students are highly skilled and are now working in many different industries in addition to academia. Engage with our graduate researchers and see the benefits.
Value to organisations include:
- research solutions for challenges facing your organisation or whole industry sector
- gain extra resources and additional skill sets to complete your projects
- collaboration with academic staff who have other specialist knowledge
- build a talent pipeline to assist with your future recruitment needs.
Ways to engage
There are options available for engaging with our research students. Please view our brochure for options.
APR.Intern internship
Engage a PhD student in a three to five month cost-effective internship.
Macquarie University works closely with the APR.Intern program which aims to support industry-based training of PhD students in all Australian universities, to increase employability and broaden business and university collaborations.
The program provides:
- an alternative cost-effective solution for challenges facing Australian businesses
- a platform for small to medium and large enterprises, and government agencies, in all industry sectors to connect with high-end PhD research expertise
- fresh perspectives and expert input on short-term, tightly focused and results driven projects.
You can read about successful Macquarie research internship projects in these case studies with Electrotechnik and Inventia Life Sciences
Benefits of the APR Intern program
Your business can benefit in the following ways:
- fill a skills gap by accessing specialist PhD students and academic mentor expertise
- fast track innovation and achieve rapid results in three to five months
- retain all project-related intellectual property
- achieve gender equity by accelerating women in STEMM.
Engage with our graduate research students
If you are interested in the engagement opportunities available to your organisation, please register your interest with us here.
Longer term projects
If you are interested in collaborating with our graduate researchers in longer term research projects please contact our Graduate Research Scholarships team on gr.funding@mq.edu.au to discuss opportunities.
Other ways to engage
If you are interested in engaging with graduate researchers, either Masters of Research or Doctor of Philosophy, we invite you to contact us about speaking opportunities on panels, workshops or our webinar series.
We particularly welcome graduate research alumni of Macquarie University and those with research qualifications from other universities.
Contact our Industry Programs Coordinator Jason Ford on gr.industry@mq.edu.au to discuss how you can engage with our graduate research students.
PhD-calibre staff fit very well into our company and with the demands in developing our algorithms. It’s been a pleasure working with Edstan and Khushboo and other PhD interns, several of whom have been welcomed as permanent staff.
David’s machine learning experience garnered from his PhD at Macquarie University was applied with great success to develop tools for quantifying our 3D printed cell cultures. This success demonstrates the importance of ... the APR.Intern program.