CDEV3000 /6000 Practice of Work
Work directly with a partner organisation on a co-designed project in Term 2 2026 - Australian National Maritime Museum, CBA, BNP Paribas and Randwick Health & Innovation Precinct.
With CDEV3000 Practice of Work / CDEV6000 Partnered Work Project you can interact directly with an organisation and gain practical project-based experience, taking your professional skills to the next level, all while earning 6 units of credit towards your undergraduate or postgraduate degree.
This course has been designed to enable students to integrate theory with the practice of work. Students will learn about professional practice and develop their personal capabilities for lifelong learning and work. The course centres on engaging with external partners (e.g. industry, community, government) by working on real-world projects, under the guidance of academic and workplace supervisors. Academic supervisors aim to maximise the learning from these activities with specialised support.
Students work in inter-disciplinary teams in collaboration with their project partner and an academic project supervisor who assists in maximising learning and the quality of the project deliverables.
Term 2 2026
Term 2 2026 projects will be administered in person at the Kensington campus where:
- Students will be required to attend mandatory workshops and teamwork time hosted by a UNSW academic team each week during the term.
- Students will also be required to periodically meet with representatives from the partner organisation to discuss, collaborate, and iterate their ideas and concepts during the allocated class time.
| Contact hours | Partners | Timetable notes |
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Applications for Term 2 2026 close at 11:59pm on Friday 27 March.
Term 2 2026 partners and projects
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Project title
Atlantis and other exhibitions
Project details
Background:
The Australian National Maritime Museum (ANMM) creates and displays temporary exhibitions as part of its business focus. The ANMM either creates these exhibitions or hires them from other institutions.
To meet each Exhibition's Return on Investment it needs to attract enough paying visitors to cover costs and/or have touring potential.
The ANMM has a number of exhibition concepts. ANMM need reliable data as to whether visitors will pay to see these exhibitions before they invest in their production.
Project aim:
Accurate audience research and evaluation, with visitor breakdowns, of each of the exhibition concepts that can be used as justification to proceed, or not, with an exhibition.
Marketing plan for each of the concepts outlining how the ANMM would meet its visitor targets.
Expected outcomes:
A marketing plan and presentation on ways for creating exhibitions with high visitor numbers and visitor satisfaction that exceed the ANMM's return on investment (ROI).
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Project title
Commonwealth Bank of Australia (CBA) Technology Partnership Project
Project details
Important to note: This CBA project is open to undergraduate domestic students at UNSW only.
Background:
Technology at the Commonwealth Bank of Australia (CBA) is one of the bank’s largest and most strategically critical capabilities, underpinning digital banking, payments, data, cyber security and core platforms. It enables customer facing channels such as CommBank App and NetBank, supports business and institutional banking platforms, and maintains the resilience and security of enterprise systems. Technology teams partner closely with business units to deliver customer outcomes, regulatory obligations and strategic transformation initiatives.
The function is typically structured around domain aligned and platform aligned teams, often operating in agile squads with product, engineering, risk and design capability embedded. Core capability areas include Engineering, Data and AI, Cyber Security, Cloud and Infrastructure, Platforms, and Enterprise Services. Technology governance is anchored in strong delivery disciplines, architecture standards, risk management and change frameworks to ensure reliability at scale in a highly regulated environment.
Strategically, CBA Technology continues to focus on cloud modernisation, automation, AI enablement, cyber resilience and simplification of legacy platforms. There is a strong emphasis on engineering excellence, DevOps practices, secure by design principles and continuous improvement.
Technology is positioned not just as an enabler but as a competitive differentiator, helping CBA deliver faster innovation cycles, improved customer experiences and operational efficiency across the bank.
Project aim:
- The aim of this project is to enhance fraud detection in banking by leveraging real time monitoring, AI and machine learning to better identify suspicious transactions while minimising false positives that impact customer experience.
- It also seeks to align the proposed approach with global best practice by researching current fraud monitoring trends and recommending suitable detection methods based on data and industry developments.
- Finally, the project will deliver a proof of concept that demonstrates how the proposed solution can detect and respond to fraudulent activity, with all findings presented in a concise slide deck.
* The CBA project has been approved by the Faculty of Engineering for 21 days of non-traditional industrial training, conditional upon successful course completion and Faculty pre-approval.
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Project title
Accelerating Innovation in Sustainable Finance
Project details
Background:
The purpose of this challenge is to bring together your ideas and BNP Paribas’ sector expertise to create a positive impact. As the bank for a changing world, BNP Paribas understands that the impact of climate change and shifts in social and consumer expectations are transforming businesses. This is happening at an unprecedented speed, making it necessary to accelerate innovation in sustainable finance.
In this context, this challenge is an opportunity for you to solve, with the guidance and support of BNP Paribas senior mentors, a concrete issue for the bank in the sustainable finance field.
Project aim:
Many SMEs perceive low business value in green practices, restricting eligibility for ESG financing and deepening unmet funding needs. Can you design incentives or education program that boost adoption of sustainable practices among APAC suppliers to unlock better financing terms?
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Project title
Randwick Health & Innovation Precinct: Amplifying the Impact
Project details
Background:
The Randwick Health & Innovation Precinct (RHIP) is one of Australia's most comprehensive co-located health precincts, bringing together three founding partners: UNSW Sydney, South Eastern Sydney Local Health District (SESLHD) and Sydney Children's Hospitals Network (SCHN).
Its vision is to be a transformative place of excellence that solves global challenges to enhance lifelong health. The problem prompting the project is the need to leverage the co-location of these institutions to break down traditional barriers between healthcare, research, education, and industry, which often hinders the rapid translation of research into real-world patient care and outcomes. RHIP seeks to improve its visibility and promote engagement from across the precinct to drive innovative programs of work that our individual partner organisations could not achieve on their own.
Project aim:
'Amplifying the Impact' will deliver a clear and evidence ‑ based transformation strategy for RHIP — defining what capabilities must be built, how partners must operate collectively, where it leads nationally, how it competes globally.
- Aim 1: Produce a competitive positioning statement that defines RHIP’s national specialisation, quantifies its advantages, and identifies where it can lead Australia in the next decade.
- Aim 2: Formulate a phased, actionable, roadmap that enables RHIP to evolve from a nationally significant precinct into a globally recognised innovation precinct. Consider governance reforms, industry co-location, venture and investment activations, mission-based translational programming and placemaking-driven precinct identity.
- Aim 3: Develop a precinct‑wide data and impact framework with a unified reporting dashboard and communications strategy tailored to industry, government, clinicians, researchers and community members.
Work Integrated Learning (WIL)
This course involves work learning experiences where students work directly in or with an industry or community organisation to gain real-world experience in preparation for a future career.
Please note that CDEV3000/6000 is not self-enrolled. Students will go through an interview process with WIL Central. Once successful, students will be enrolled by the WIL Central Team.
Please visit Student Portal for more information.
Application process
- Submit your application: Complete your application via InPlace. You can apply for up to 2 projects.
- Confirm eligibility: Submit your eligibility confirmation by 11:59pm Friday, 27 March 2026.
- Interview process: Applicants who meet the screening criteria will be invited to attend an interview conducted by the Experiential Learning team from 16 March to 2 April 2026.*
- Course enrolment: This is not a self-enrolled course. Successful students will receive an offer via email and will be enrolled in the course by WIL Central from 6 April to 17 April 2026.*
*Please note that dates may change depending on application volume.
Eligibility
CDEV3000 Practice of Work - undergraduate
| Credits | General education | Free elective | Final Year Synthesis | WIL |
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6 UOC
| All faculties
| Some degrees | Bachelor of Commerce | Some degrees |
CDEV6000 Partnered Work Project - postgraduate
| Credits | General education | Free elective | Final Year Synthesis | WIL |
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| 6 UOC | Not available | Some degrees | Not available | Some degrees |
Important:
Please be advised that Experiential Learning does not have visibility over individual students’ study progressions. As such, we are unable to confirm your eligibility to enrol in the course. It is the student’s responsibility to consult with their faculty or academic advisor to confirm eligibility and ensure alignment with their study progression and graduation requirements.
Check your eligibility:
- Self-check with myPlan
- Enquire with The Nucleus
No space in your program?
Submit a Course Substitution Request
Frequently asked questions
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You can apply for up to two projects per term, and indicate your preferences accordingly.
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You will be notified of the project for which you are invited to interview. Final placement allocation will be determined based on your performance during the interview process. Please note that participation in an interview does not guarantee placement.
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No, students can only participate in a single course code (CDEV3000 / CDEV6000) once.
Students share their experience
As an international student it is difficult to secure internships. CDEV3000 allowed me to gain practical work experience with industry partners that align with my career aspirations....and helped me develop valuable employability skills.
Some of the employability skills I have gained in this course are problem solving, team work, visual design and presentation skills. CDEV6000 offers practical experience like no other course does and teachers important job skills.