APO is pleased to be hosting three student placements this semester. They are Julia Pham, a fourth year Arts/Commerce student at Monash, and Ana Collings and Isabella Tilley, both International Studies students at Swinburne University. All three will be working on APO site development as well as on individual projects that will extend their writing and analysis capabilities.
Isabella Tilley and Ana Machado-Colling
APO welcomes further placement applicants and other volunteers with aspirations of pursuing interesting projects. Potential placement opportunities include marketing internships and data visualisation or data analytics projects. And we are open to many other ideas too!
APO is able to host placements from various disciplines – including information management, politics, sociology, public policy in any discipline area, marketing and communications, computer sciences and other courses.
We also support those seeking work experience – particularly librarians and information managers who would like to help with curation and database improvements.
To find out more about organising a placement or volunteering with APO, please contact Penelope Aitken editors@apo.org.au.
Meet our current students on APO placement:
Ana Machado-Colling: ‘I’m a third year student completing a Bachelor of Arts, with a major in International Studies and minor in Politics and Public Policy at Swinburne. I undertook the APO internship to further enhance my writing and researching skills in a workplace setting. I’m interested in tackling contemporary policy issues through a range of open access resources and contributing to a reputable organisation.’
Isabella Tilley: ‘I’m a third year student at Swinburne, completing a Bachelor of Arts with a major in International Studies and a minor in Security Studies. The APO internship enables me to further my writing capabilities and learn to write in a style that is practical and job focused. Thus far, I have enjoyed getting to write about a current issue whilst actually envisioning policy reforms and recommendations.’
Julia Pham: ‘I applied for an APO placement because I have found the APO site incredibly helpful in the past. I thought that it would be a cool experience to work at a place whose mission it is to provide greater access to public policy research. Currently I am looking at the site’s metrics using Google Analytics.’
