Delivering transformative, immersive, and authentic WIL: Bridge of Hope Innocence Initiative
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 10 ก.ย. 2024
- Established at RMIT University in 2014, the Bridge of Hope Innocence Initiative (BOHII), is a multi-disciplinary campus workplace. Student interns collaborate with academics and industry professionals to investigate wrongful conviction claims and raise awareness about errors in the criminal justice system. BOHII’s workplace design enables students to develop and apply transferable employability skills in real-world contexts.
Since 2014, the Bridge of Hope Innocence Initiative (BOHII) teaching team has spearheaded a transformative and immersive work-integrated learning experience for students. BOHII internship students work collaboratively with academics and industry professionals to investigate wrongful conviction claims and raise public awareness about errors in the criminal justice system. BOHII is the only Australian innocence project to be created as an internship model and provides internship opportunities for RMIT students and cross-institutional students. Annually, up to 45 students undertake 50-day or 20-day internships to research the merits of claims and uncover factual errors that might establish a person’s innocence.
BOHII’s workplace design enables students to develop and practice transferable employability skills in real-world situations, including interpersonal skills, emotional intelligence, resilience and self-care, critical thinking, collaborative working, and research. The team’s expertise in law, criminology, psychology, and education support BOHII’s multi-disciplinary focus and emphasis on professional skills, while BOHII’s embedded industry linkages provide cross-sectoral experiences that are generally not available in standard internships. BOHII’s strong industry links through legal entities, experts and alumni continuously expand the network of professionals who support BOHII, while media coverage of BOHII’s investigations have raised the profile of wrongful convictions in Australia and of RMIT graduates.