Enrichment Badges are intended to recognise the personal and professional development you have gained through your participation in a range of UQ enrichment programs and experiential learning activities.
Digital Enrichment Badges contain verified metadata describing the activity and how you earned the badge. You can use the digital badge on social media platforms, digital resumes, and email signatures to help you to communicate your particular competencies, capabilities and attributes.
The Get Set Mentoring Program is a student-led program designed to help new students connect, make friends, and understand the UQ community better. Peer mentors guide new UQ students through the first 6 weeks of semester, teaching them tips and tricks to navigate university life and settle into their studies.
Through participation in the Get Set Mentoring Program as a Peer Mentor, students have demonstrated their ability to:
- Share knowledge by signposting to appropriate resources, opportunities to become involved in the campus community, and learn to independently locate support services
- Successfully participate in experiences that foster and strengthen intercultural competencies and cultural humility
- Consider the welfare of others when making decisions and hold themselves accountable for obligations and commitments
- Model the capacities of positive mentoring, including active listening, compassion, responsiveness, sensitivity to concerns, and confidentiality
Participation as a Peer Mentor in the Get Set Mentoring Program also contributes to the development of the following UQ Graduate Attributes:
- Connected citizens
- Culturally capable
- Influential communicators
Student-Staff Partnership Projects connect students and staff as equal partners and collaborators on projects that seek to enhance the UQ community - effecting positive change within the teaching and learning, student experience and governance/strategy environments. Students engage in up to 21 weeks of collaboration on their project in their partnership teams.
Through participation in a Student-Staff Partnership Project students have demonstrated their ability to:
- Understand the partnership ethos, premised upon respect, mutual learning, accountability and shared responsibility.
- Integrate diverse perspectives to enable collaborative partnership
- Apply project management strategies and tools
- Communicate confidently across diverse contexts
- Effect transformational change and value continuous improvement
Participation in Student Staff Partnership projects also contributes to the development of the following UQ Graduate Attributes:
- Courageous thinkers
- Connected citizens
- Influential communicators
UQ Art Museum’s Cultural Mediation Program trains students as Cultural Mediators to create safe and inclusive spaces for visitors. Museum visitors can explore artworks and exhibitions with these Cultural Mediators who provide an environment where questions are welcomed, ideas can be shared and visitors can think deeply about the artworks.
Through participation in the UQ Art Museum Cultural Mediation Program students have demonstrated their ability to:
- Gain transdisciplinary skills in communication, problem solving, active listening, creativity, and visual analysis
- Communicate confidently across diverse contexts
- Build positive and meaningful relationships with community members and stakeholders
- Practice genuine inclusivity
- Effectively transform and adapt practices using reflection tools and peer-to-peer learning
- Facilitate peer-to-peer learning experiences
- Address challenging issues with empathy
Participation in the UQ Art Museum Cultural Mediation Program also contributes to the development of the following UQ Graduate Attributes:
- Connected citizens
- Courageous thinkers
- Respectful leaders
The Summer and Winter Research Programs provide opportunites for students to engage in research-related activities alongside some of the University's leading academics and researchers.
The Summer Research Program runs for 6 weeks in January and February and the Winter program runs for 4 weeks in June and July. Tasks can include: ethics applications, data collection, survey design, literature reviews, data analysis using relevant software, report preparation, research presentation.
Through participation in either the Summer or Winter Research programs, students have demonstrated their ability to:
- Apply appropriate research methodologies to their project.
- Independently assess information and evidence and critically evaluate a range of information sources.
- Enhance content knowledge in the chosen research field.
- Apply critical thinking and/or logical analysis to the research project.
- Effectively communicate research concepts through written reports and/or presentation.
Participation in the Summer and Winter Research Programs also contributes to the development of the following UQ Graduate Attributes:
- Accomplished Scholars
- Courageous thinkers
- Influential communicators
The Engineering, Architecture and Information Technology (EAIT) Industry Mentoring Program connects penultimate and final year students studying engineering, architecture, and computing with established alumni and industry professionals. The program assists students with their career development and transition from university into the workplace, engaging business professionals in a mutually beneficial partnership.
Through participation in the EAIT Industry Mentoring Program students have demonstrated their ability to:
- Identify and connect with people that will form part of their industry/professional network
- Utilise practical advice from industry to prepare for their transition to work, bridging the gap between being a student and entering the workplace.
- Apply academic knowledge in the workplace, set goals, and explore career options.
Participation in the EAIT Industry Mentoring Program also contributes to the development of the following UQ Graduate Attributes:
- Connected citizens
- Influential communicators
- Respectful leaders
My Career Adviser (MCA) is an online career development and employability platform to help students navigate their employability journey at UQ and future career path. Students work through a range of interactive resources and modules covering subjects such as career action planning, creating and refining a resume, preparing for job applications and interviews, and transition to work, and complete a capstone project for each of the 4 key topic areas.
Through completion of the full 40 hours of My Career Adviser activities, students have demonstrated their ability to:
- Create and implement a career action plan
- Understand and harness the value of experiential learning for Career Development
- Develop and maintain their professional network.
- Prepare application documentation and effectively answer interview questions
- Articulate their professional identity online, in networking and recruitment situations
Participation in My Career Adviser also contributes to the development of the following UQ Graduate Attributes:
- Connected citizens
- Influential communicators
The Business, Economics and Law (BEL) Student Work Experience Program runs for 7 weeks each semester. Students engage in a series of industry standard recruitment tasks and are provided with personalised feedback at each stage. Students who successfully complete the recruitment tasks can undertake a work experience placement in the following semester break.
Through participation in SWEP students have demonstrated their ability to:
- Navigate competitive recruitment processes as utilised by industry
- Prepare competitive job application documents (e.g., cover letter and resume)
- Prepare for and perform confidently in job interviews
- Communicate professionally and articulate concisely their value proposition to employers
- Engage in and effectively reflect on professional experiences
- Act on constructive feedback to improve performance in future recruitment processes
Participation in the BEL Student Work Experience Program also contributes to the development of the following UQ Graduate Attributes:
- Connected citizens
- Influential communicators
The Embassy Internship Program provides students with an interest in international culture and society, trade, diplomacy, international relations and business to experience work in a diplomatic environment over the Summer and Winter breaks. Students engage in a range of activities including: research, translation, event coordination, liaison with other diplomatic offices, and supporting day to day consular services such as passport and visa applications and public enquiries.
Through participation in the Embassy Internship Program, students have demonstrated their ability to:
- Exhibit professionalism in diplomatic environments.
- Communicate confidently across diverse cultural and situational contexts
- Proactively expand their knowledge of cultural diversity and civic engagement.
- Apply their understanding of consular and embassy processes and functions to contribute to administrative and consular activities.
- Effectively articulate learning from this experience through written reports and/or presentations
Participation in the Embassy Internship Program also contributes to the development of the following UQ Graduate Attributes:
- Connected citizens
- Culturally capable
- Influential communicators