Each year, we invite students from the University of Melbourne to join us for a three-week intensive internship. One student from each discipline of Landscape Architecture, Town Planning and Urban Design is chosen, the three of whom will complete a joint research assignment, whilst mentored and guided by our team.
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Overview
Work collaboratively on a joint research project alongside experienced professionals.
Applicants need to be current University of Melbourne students at the master’s level, enrolled in MSD Vocational Placement subject.
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2025 topic
2025 Internship – Designing for Climate Resilience
Incorporating climate resilience and biodiversity positive design into urban environments is crucial to support the creation of sustainable cities.
Each year, Masters students from the University of Melbourne participate in Tract’s three week intensive internship program to undertake a research project that supports deeper knowledge and insight into some of the built environment challenges we face as practitioners.
For the 2025 program, students used the Climate Resilience Index (developed by Tract and OneMap) to identify underperforming neighbourhoods which have been nominated as future Activity Centres under the State Government’s recent program – selecting Tottenham, in Melbourne’s west.
Through site investigations, policy review and explorations from the perspectives of planning, urban design and landscape architecture, the students provided practical recommendations for strengthening biodiversity outcomes for public and private space.
The importance of streets and public open spaces in greening cities, enhancing biodiversity, and supporting climate resilience is well-recognised. Through considered interventions that improve environmental outcomes for our cities, we can advance social, economic and environmental equity in our cities.
Tract is committed to improving our climate and biodiversity performance and reducing our environmental impacts, both through our business practices and through our work as planners, landscape architects, and urban designers.
We are a proudly collaborative practice, working across the disciplines of town planning, landscape architecture, and urban design. As such, we invite applications from students of town planning, landscape architecture, and urban design to work with Tract, applying their expertise in their respective disciplines to develop and test innovative solutions to a contemporary challenge of our urban environment.
The internship offers the opportunity for students to undertake self-guided research, with support and mentorship from current industry professionals and leaders. At the end of the internship intensive, students delivered a presentation of their findings – supported by an executive report – to Tract’s national team and key industry partners, outlining how their findings can be applied to current and future communities.
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Expression of interest process
1. Interested?
If you would like to register your interest for the next University of Melbourne, MSD Vocational Placement, please reach out to us.
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