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.
Join our internship program
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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Topic
Designing for Climate Resilience
In 2024, Tract, in collaboration with OneMap, developed the Climate Resilience Index to evaluate the capacity of Melbourne’s neighbourhoods to address climate change effectively. The Index evaluates the determinants of Melbourne’s urban environments that impact sustainable living.
As practitioners, we committed to fostering neighbourhoods that enhance climate resilience and biodiversity recognising the role these play in supporting equity within urban spaces. The 2025 Tract x UoM Internship will advance the research of Tract and our past internship cohorts, throughout a three-week intensive program.
Interns will investigate suburbs and neighbourhoods around metropolitan Melbourne, using tools that Tract has developed including the Climate Resilience Index and biodiversity layers in OneMap, to identify those areas that are underperforming. Having identified a suburb or neighbourhood, you will then look at ways to improve climate and biodiversity outcomes for the area expanding on the site-scale typology approach developed in the 2024 internship.
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 will offer 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, students will deliver 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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