Project Description
Loopli is an Australian growth agency specialising in client acquisition systems for trade and construction business owners. We combine SEO, CRM automation, website design, and strategic marketing to help tradies generate consistent, high-margin leads, reduce administrative chaos, and build sustainable businesses.
Based at iAccelerate in Wollongong, we have a passion to help Australian tradies improve profitability, reduce financial stress and show up in their lives as better people for it.
Industry: Technology
Study area: Accounting Finance & Economics, Business, Humanities & Social Inquiry, Psychology & Human Behaviour, Social Sciences & Advocacy
Partner: Loopli
Suburb: Wollongong
Why:
This internship sits at the intersection of academic research and real-world business impact. The intern will be working directly with a company that serves hundreds of Australian trade businesses, and their findings will directly inform how Loopli communicates its value proposition to clients and investors.
The intern will have the opportunity to publish their work and to help shape the academic conversation around small business mental health in Australia.
Paid
Yes
Selection Criteria
Applicants must have completed their Research Proposal Review (or have the date scheduled), be within their first 18months of candidature and provide approval by their academic supervisor.
Skills wish list (you don't need all to apply):
- Strong background in psychology, public health, social sciences, or a related discipline with experience conducting systematic or narrative literature reviews.
- Familiarity with wellbeing frameworks and motivational theory (e.g. Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs, self-determination theory, positive psychology).
- Ability to translate complex academic findings into clear, accessible language for a non-academic audience.
- Interest in small business, entrepreneurship, or occupational wellbeing research.
- Ambition to publish: the intern is encouraged to design further empirical studies or prepare findings for journal submission.
Research Outcomes
A peer-reviewed-quality literature review quantifying the relationship between financial stress and mental wellbeing, with specific reference to small business owners in the trades and construction sector.
An accessible summary report, written for a trade businessowner audience, that allows readers to identify themselves in the problem and understand how improving financial stability leads to measurable improvements in happiness and life satisfaction.
Where literature gaps exist, the intern is encouraged to design further empirical studies suitable for future publication. The intern will also have access to anonymised client data held by Loopli, which may inform a secondary output (scope to be agreed with the Academic Mentor).
Duration
3 months, paid at UOW stipend rate
Application closing date
3 July 2026
Contact information
Georgia Watson