APR.Intern - Allied Finishes

External opportunities: These internships are not automatically approved for course credit as we do not have a formal agreement with the host organisations. They are considered as self-sourced internships and if they meet the requirements for project content, learning outcomes, safety, etc they can be considered for credit.

If you negotiate a self-sourced internship, email science.internships@anu.edu.au to enquire about credit. Contact us as soon as possible so we can assess the internship requirements, and enrolment in the internship course (eg SCNC 3000) arranged for credit. Include this information in your email: Name of Host organisation; Address of Host organisation; Title of project; Description of project and your duties; Clearances required; Host Supervisor contact details: name, address, email address and phone number; Number of units; Intended session/year of internship eg. Semester 1, 2021.

Internship type

External opportunity

Credit

To be confirmed upon successful application

Level

PhD

Description

ANTIMICROBIAL FLOORING

Allied Finishes serves the food and beverage, and pharmaceutical industries in Australia. Their primary focus is on providing flooring solutions in manufacturing facilities that enable food health and WHS compliance.

But they want to do more than just help their clients with compliance – they want to improve the floor system offerings so that their solutions help in the ongoing battle against unwanted microbiological activity in food/ beverage and pharmaceutical facilities.

They envisage two broad stages to the research:

Refinement of the existing preferred coating systems for heavy duty flooring in our target sectors using open market ‘additives’ to achieve specific improvements (eg deterrence of microbial growth and transmission, improvement in ease of cleaning through low dirt retention modifiers etc)
Identification of further specific improvements that will help the identified sectors, followed by development and commercialisation on an ongoing basis (i.e. continuous improvement)

SKILLS WISH LIST

If you’re a PhD student and meet some or all the below we want to hear from you. We strongly encourage women, indigenous and disadvantaged candidates to apply:

Identification of the ‘status quo’, and critical thinking on how to improve this
Application of microbiology and chemistry principles
Ability to develop practical solutions

Full details of the internship project, including duration, eligibility, scholarship and application details can be found at:

https://aprintern.org.au/internship/allied-finishes-apr-1592/