Our partnerships are purposeful, future-focused and impact-driven. We develop long-lasting relationships that adapt to meet the needs of our partners and ever-changing landscape. Feel confident knowing that we'll develop mutually beneficial, engaging solutions that deliver results for our students, community and industry. We’re out in communities helping to drive positive change.
Many of our partners offer internship and work-integrated learning programs where, as a student, you can apply theoretical knowledge and practise problem-solving, teamwork and communication skills in a real workplace.
As an employer, when you partner with us you can find future talent and enrich your teams with fresh perspectives, including the latest in research and best practice.
No matter your question, challenge or vision, our research community is ready to work with you to deliver impact. Join companies – across a diverse range of industries – who have benefited from our ingenuity and multidisciplinary research.
We’d love to hear about your project and how the Deakin Production and Creative Arts Industry Hub can assist your business. Our students, specialist equipment and technical support team are ready to help – bring your project to our facilities or host an intern at your business.
Get in touch to discover how a partnership with the School of Education, School of Humanities and Social Sciences and the School of Communication and Creative Arts can transform and strengthen your institution.
Deakin's School of Education is one of Australia’s biggest providers of teacher education. We have established enduring partnerships with industry, schools, government, teaching and research institutes, and not-for-profit organisations. We have high-priority partnerships both in Australia and around the world.
Our Australian partners offer us opportunities to stay engaged and address key issues in education. Our partners include:
Deakin’s School of Education is one of Australia’s most international of schools for teacher education. We have high-priority global partnerships with industry, government, teaching and research institutes, and not-for-profit organisations. We welcome visitors from abroad to provide opportunities for mutual collaboration and partnership building.
We participate in international research and capacity development projects with the following universities and organisations:
We offer professional development programs for teachers and teacher educators from a range of countries and institutions. Our Master of TESOL course is taught at Van Lang University, Vietnam and Sichuan Normal University, China.
We also provide a recognition of prior learning pathway from the following institutions Diploma of Early Childhood Education to Deakin’s Bachelor of Early Childhood Education at the following institutions:
Our school's involvement in the Ashwood Alliance has strengthened the relationship between Deakin University and our schools, with a common goal of improving outcomes for pre-service teachers, ultimately ensuring we have higher quality candidates coming through as graduates.
Kate Nancarrow
Assistant Principal, Solway Primary School
We are committed to building deep and mutually beneficial partnerships to achieve local and global impact with industry, government, private enterprise and community.
We have partnered with a number of educational and arts institutions, and community-based centres, such as Save the Children. These relationships facilitate greater access to Deakin courses and enhance options for our students.
We're constantly seeking new ways to expand our education platform and widen opportunities for our students. We partner with many international institutions to enrich teaching and learning, and research. Partner universities include Jindal Global University, Universitas Indonesia, University of Social Sciences and Humanities, Vietnam National University.
We've developed a dual award program with Brandenburg University of Technology Cottbus-Senftenberg in Germany. The program combines our academic strengths – both universities are internationally recognised as leading institutions in the field of heritage and museum studies.
Deakin interns come with great knowledge of best practice – which we have utilised to grow our talent within the organisation. It is always great to retain someone in an ongoing capacity when they know your business – and your team has built a relationship with them.
Dianne Silvestro, Executive General Manager
Melbourne Royal
We develop meaningful, mutually beneficial and enduring relationships with our partners. They benefit from the creativity of our students, engage researchers to tackle industry challenges, or commission staff learning through customised partnerships.
We partner with a wide range of local, regional, national and international organisations as part of our research activities, including:
Deakin's partnerships with key sport industry organisations enable students to apply their skills attained through course work into the real world of sport broadcasting through the Practicum Unit. Learn about the work that Deakin student Sarah Thomas undertook in her role as Director of the DeakinLive Sport Broadcast of Deakin Melbourne Boomers WNBL games.
I was responsible for two projects: audio archiving and podcast tracking. Both gave me the chance to practise technical and interpersonal skills – like communication, time management, patience and creativity.
Blair Morilly, Bachelor of Creative Writing
Internship Host: Triple R Broadcasting Ltd.
Deakin University has partnered with Australia's national broadcaster to explore new ways to support local news sustainability.
Deakin University researchers have developed a new resource for teachers to better understand how their students are using technology outside the classroom to support student learning.
A new Alfred Deakin Institute report examines grassroots truth-telling in Australia as a method to reconcile with the nation's colonial history.
Get in touch with our team to find out more on our partnership programs and collaboration.
