PHSS2000 Past Industry Projects

The Modern Language Teachers’ Association of QLD is planning to host two conferences for language teachers next year: a Japanese state conference and a French national conference, which will bring hundreds of teachers together to discuss critical issues related to language teaching. If you’re passionate about languages and have an interest in teaching, then this is the project for you. Your project team will have the chance to influence the direction of the conference programs and organise key aspects of the events such as the venue, speakers and promotion.

This project seeks students with an educational and research background to review educational research into teaching writing to adolescents, examine the affordances and constraints of new technologies in this space, review research on the impact of these new technologies on writing, and offer implications for practice – how high school teachers can move beyond theorising adolescent online literacies to reimagine their adolescent learner and situate the teaching of writing within their multiliteracies world.

Voyage Control is a technology company that supports clients globally with optimising their logistics activities in several key industries – construction, events, facilities management and ports. The purpose of this project will be to help to deliver against key marketing and research tasks for the business, and for students, to allow them to apply their skills and knowledge to real business tasks and develop work experience.

Join a small team to review and suggest improvements to the web, social media and branding position of the Modern Language Teachers’ Association of Queensland. You’ll have the chance to influence the digital footprint of the premier peak professional body representing teachers of languages throughout the state.

You will contribute to enhancing the current UQ student experience by moving to more intuitive assessment practices that will reflect the way in which students will be challenged and assessed in the workplace. You will review and evaluate the eAssessment 2020 pilot, and manage events and create resources for stage 2 of the pilot in Semester 1 2021.

This project seeks students with an educational and statistics background to analyse the changes in learner behaviour that occurred during 2020. You will be working with a range of stakeholders including ITaLI staff and teaching staff.

Plenitude Wealth, a wealth management firm based in Brisbane, provides clients and potential clients with a Property Heat Map to help them with investing in property. The heat map is designed to provide the investor with a snapshot of what the best and worst performing suburbs are in each council and provides a story of how the suburbs have fared over a 5, 10, 15 & 20 year period. This project team will analyse existing property data, develop innovative visualisations, and produce a report for distribution to clients.

Be part of a team that will research, script and film a series of videos about world religions, including an overview of major world religions, an exploration of the diversity within religions, and comparisons of how religious traditions deal with sacred texts and ethical issues.  Not only will you co-develop the videos with staff at St Thomas More College, but you’ll also create complementary learning activities to help secondary students investigate the issues raised in the videos.

This project provides students with an immersive experience relating to the role of accessioning archaeology collections into the State Museum. At the conclusion of the project, students will have participated in a fully mentored project encompassing archaeology practice, museum practice and communication projects with museum audiences. Students will have completed accessioning an archaeological assemblage into the State Museum as well as associated public outreach work to share knowledge of the collection with museum audiences.

Opera Queensland seeks to create thrilling opera, with exceptional artists and partners, courageously supporting and advancing the art form. In preparation for the 40^th anniversary of Opera Queensland, this project will focus on planning a gala event in August 2021 that will attract over 350 government dignitaries, philanthropists and corporate partners.

Holding Redlich’s lawyers work across a range of industries providing legal services for clients of all sizes including many of Australia’s largest public and private companies and all levels of government. Part of Holding Redlich’s practice focuses on complex cross-border corporate transactions and commercial matters between Australia and China. In this project, you will undertake Chinese-English or English-Chinese translation of a range of legal and commercial documents in support of the China Practice.