Creative engagement with the APR Intern program for practitioner-researchers

To Higher Degree Research (HDR) students in most disciplines, a paid internship can be a helpful torch to the light their way to the end of the tunnel. The prospect is especially attractive where it fills the scholarship-free period between submission and receipt of examiner reports. For practitioner-researchers (those working in the traditional fields of creative practice, including writers, theatre-makers, dancers and visual artists), who are often operating as sole-traders working project to project within the creative industries – a field populated by small, often subsistence-based enterprises – the shine of such a scheme’s appeal is not quite as bright