Brisbane Catholic Education Strategy Pilot - Placement Opportunity 2025
Brisbane Catholic Education is a learning community of all involved in diocesan Catholic schools and the staff of the Brisbane Catholic Education Office. With over 140 schools, Brisbane Catholic Education provides quality teaching and learning outcomes for Prep to Year 12 students.
Currenlty is seeking an intern to work in the “Education Strategy Pilot” program 2025. The internship placement is intended to to capture the elements of effective practices within a cycle of learning, teaching, and evidence-based building and articulate the future-focused potential of upscaling towards educational transformation across BCE schools. Reporting to the Senior Manager- Research, Innovation & Impact, the intern will have a chance to benefit BCE through utilising their doctoral skills to help support the:
- Establishment of plans for capturing research, innovation and impact needs.
- Support teachers in schools to capture research and inform future learning and wellbeing considerations.
- Support teachers with developing action research processes and methods in areas that have been identified (and a number of partnerships already established) as integral in BCE’s new Education strategy.
- Help inform, influence and determine strategic priorities and direction that inspires and stimulates positive change in learning and wellbeing for all students.
- Using inputs from emerging learning technologies, educational research and global trends to help co-design new directions for learning and wellbeing.
- Supporting teachers towards the communication of findings from innovation impacts.
Intended start date: May 2025 (Specific date negotiable).
Total days: 60 working days.
EOIs closes on Friday 04th April 2025. Please email submissions directly to ResearchImpact@bne.catholic.edu.au. Attention of Dr Nathan Richards, Lead Education Advisor: Research, Innovation & Impact.Please send through an expression of interest of no longer than two pages and your CV.
All expressions of interest are welcome from current Doctoral students, yet it is preferable that the proposed doctoral intern has a skillset that is aligned to:
- Collaboration with schools to help support action research and collaboration in the areas of learning and wellbeing.
- Have experience in developing staff capabilities via professional development.
- Have experience in planning and utilising methods to help capture the impacts of professional practices.
If you get selected for this project you might be eligible to apply for one of the Graduate School Scholarships. In order to be eligible, after being selected, you will need to formally submit the HDR placement application to Graduate School through my.UQ. Please visit the placements website for guidance, specifically from "Organise your Placement" section: https://cdf.graduate-school.uq.edu.au/hdr-placements and contact Graduate school through their email graduateschool@uq.edu.au if you need assistance submitting your application.
About the Project
The new Research, Innovation & Impact function area at Brisbane Catholic Education (BCE) is establishing new capabilities for impact capturing to improve and enhance the translation of research from emerging educational innovations being undertaken across BCE schools.
Accross 2024-2025, the new “Education Strategy Pilot” program will be launched with the intention to capture the elements of effective practices within a cycle of learning, teaching, and evidence-based building to articulate the future-focused potential of upscaling towards educational transformation across BCE schools.
The internship placement is intended to focus on one of the following areas of expertise:
• Supporting the capturing of impacts and the development of guidelines and resources within the Brisbane Catholic Education footprint to support all school in successfully implementing new initiatives.
• Supporting the development of research methods and measures to design and evaluate professional learning delivered by the Brisbane Catholic Education Office.