To help achieve a number of our sustainability goals, SIPS Internships are offered regularly throughout the year.
The Sustainability team works across the University partnering with staff in academic and professional roles who are expert mentors and specialists.
Previous projects have included:
- An energy audit of student accommodation and a report recommending various sustainability retrofits presented to the ISD team
- Developing and running the University's Ride to Uni breakfast
- Assisting in the development and rollout of a campus furniture recycling scheme.
View completed projects (PDF 269.7 KB)
Whether you are a student, staff member or part of the community, we welcome your project ideas for SIPS. Our goal is to integrate sustainability across all areas of the University, therefore we invite projects from all disciplines and departments.
Get in touch with your project idea
Are you a student with ideas beyond the completed projects we’ve got listed? Perhaps you’ve had a burning desire to learn more about how the University could implement a new project. Do you need someone to back you, mentor you and provide some funding?
The SIPS Fellowship is a program designed to help you bring to life these wild visions. Fellowships are granted to people with initiative, vision and enormous enthusiasm and passion for their project.
View completed projects (PDF 269.7 KB)
Whether you are a student, staff member or part of the community, we welcome your project ideas for SIPS. Our goal is to integrate sustainability across all areas of the University, therefore we invite projects from all disciplines and departments.
Get in touch with your project idea
Once you've enrolled in your chosen course, get in touch with your Course Coordinator about SIPS and any course-based activities they have created which relate directly to your assessment tasks.
Previous examples include:
- Collecting data around on-campus movement
- Campus waste audits
- Bike infrastructure design
- University reserve biodiversity management plans
- Sustainability frameworks for the University of Tasmania
View completed projects (PDF 269.7 KB)
Whether you are a student, staff member or part of the community, we welcome your project ideas for SIPS. Our goal is to integrate sustainability across all areas of the University, therefore we invite projects from all disciplines and departments.
Get in touch with your project idea
As you begin each unit as part of your course, you have an opportunity to choose a campus sustainability-related issue as the focus of your specific assessments. Your Unit Coordinator can help you identify what opportunities they are at the start of each unit.
Previous examples include:
- Developing a University of Tasmania Bird Trail
- Reducing paper cup usage at the University
- Designing and planning a Renewable Energy Array on the University Farm
- Communication and content around campus sustainability issues and or events.
View completed projects (PDF 269.7 KB)
Whether you are a student, staff member or part of the community, we welcome your project ideas for SIPS. Our goal is to integrate sustainability across all areas of the University, therefore we invite projects from all disciplines and departments.
Get in touch with your project idea
As an undergraduate, honours or research degree student, there are many opportunities for you to engage in research practice. You can choose to use these opportunities to think more deeply about campus sustainability.
Previous examples include:
- Third-year (multidisciplinary research) project – Peak Oil Risk Assessment for the University of Tasmania
- Honours project – Campus food waste
- Masters project – Perceptions of recycling activities at the University of Tasmania
- PhD – Sea level rise and risk assessment for the University of Tasmania
View completed projects (PDF 269.7 KB)
Whether you are a student, staff member or part of the community, we welcome your project ideas for SIPS. Our goal is to integrate sustainability across all areas of the University, therefore we invite projects from all disciplines and departments.
Get in touch with your project idea
An internship is a fantastic opportunity to put your skills to use outside of the classroom, especially where there may not be an opportunity to link your assessment to campus sustainability initiatives.
There are many different ways that you can do an internship through SIPS:
View completed projects (PDF 269.7 KB)
Whether you are a student, staff member or part of the community, we welcome your project ideas for SIPS. Our goal is to integrate sustainability across all areas of the University, therefore we invite projects from all disciplines and departments.
Get in touch with your project idea
