For students
Internships provide students with opportunities to gain hands-on work experience while they apply the knowledge and skills they've developed.
Internships for students
NorVicFoods offers a range of unpaid internships for Masters students currently enrolled through the University of Melbourne. The internships are offered through a number of agri-food businesses located within the Hume region.
All costs involved with the internships are fully covered (transport, accommodation and reasonable meal expenses).
Internships will be run during semester and travel to the Hume region is expected for a few days as part of the internship.
For students to apply please send your resume and a cover letter detailing what you are studying, why you want to be considered for an agri-food internship and what industry you are most interested in.
Apply for an internship with us
To apply for an internship position please send your resume and cover letter to contact-norvicfoods@unimelb.edu.au
Scholarship updates
Scholarships are provided as part of the funding from the Victorian State Government. NorVicFoods has fully sponsored two PhD students - Wenan Cai and Natalie Harris. We have also sponsored a Masters in Philosophy student - Ashwin Srikanth and provided some grants to Haotong Yu and So Young Ku.
Case Studies
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Sharon Witan
Sharon Witan, a food science and biotechnology graduate from Indonesia, undertook her internship through NorVicFoods during the final year of her Master’s in Food and Packaging Innovation at the University of Melbourne.
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Fonterra case study
The NorVicFoods venture (NVFv) is designed to strengthen the agri-food innovation system in the Hume region of Victoria. It's first focus (in early 2022) has been a feasibility study of grass-fed claims in dairy farming and the data required from dairy farmers in order to substantiate these claims. This case study highlights this initial project to showcase NVFv's achievements to-date and its future potential.
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Akshaya Suresh
Akshaya, a final-year Master of Food Science student at the University of Melbourne, undertook her internship with NorVicFoods over the 2020 summer semester.