Mitra Gusheh

Executive Manager Social Impact at the UTS Centre for Social Justice and Inclusion.

[Barrie Cassidy @barriecassidy]

This is such a game changer.

[Dr. Carrie Besnette Hauser @CarrieBHauser]

“Show me a campus that supports students of color and I will see a campus that supports all students.” - Freeman Hrabowski ⁦@ACEducation⁩ #ACE2023DC #HigherEd #STEM #Equity

[Engagement Australia @EngagementAust]

Thank you Aunty Glendra Stubbs for your heartfelt Acknowledgement of Country to start Day 2 of our conference and the joy you brought to the room.
#eaconference22
#EngagementAustralia
#CarnegieAust

[Engagement Australia @EngagementAust]

Thankyou to Don Perlgut for sharing the success of ACE in engaging our most vulnerable & disadvantaged students. Organisational culture & place-focussed practices are at the heart of their education practices & a pathway for Higher Education.
#eaconference22
#EngagementAust

[Engagement Australia @EngagementAust]

A sustained pathway to address the vulnerabilty of Over 50's women was shared by Dr Dhara Shah. The outcomes of cross sector collaboration saw significant empowerment achieved, including a positive ripple effect on their communities.
#eaconference22
@dhara1411

[Engagement Australia @EngagementAust]

Leaning into challenges to create equal & mutually beneficial outcomes is how universities & RUC's worked with rural communities, respecting local rural knowledge to widen participation & address the unique needs of each regional community.
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@Ronan_CT
@SonalSingh2

[Engagement Australia @EngagementAust]

Margaret Malone asks what more can we do to actively support greater diversity in scholarly literature? Growing global interest in the engaged movement requires reimagining who sits at the global research table, looking externally whilst innovating within. #eaconference22

[Engagement Australia @EngagementAust]

Using a relational & reciprocal framework, the Social Impact Team at UTS have shared 3 programs to demonstrate how commitment to meaningful versus transactional community engagement ensures a nimbleness in response to crises & delivers real impact. #eaconference22 #CarnegieAust

[Engagement Australia @EngagementAust]

WSUSOM harnesses the diversity of the GWS community via their Medicine in Action Program. Students engage with Social Determinants of Health to understand medicine in it's broader context & learn from first-hand experience. The results are raising socially accountable doctors.

[Engagement Australia @EngagementAust]

From the disaster of the Christchurch earthquakes action by the Student Volunteer Army directly inspired an immediate community engagement program at UOC in NZ. Huge participation & global interest has further expanded engagement course offerings. #eaconference22

[Engagement Australia @EngagementAust]

The idea of universities as 'anchors' in community was demonstrated by the Alliance for Suicide Prevention. The collaboration between Uni SC and the community sector, their Head, Heart, Hand engagement model built trust and has seen over 17,000 benefit from Alliance initiatives.

[Engagement Australia @EngagementAust]

A privilege to be joined by Dr Marisol Morales, along with Australian & Canadian participants in the collaborative Carnegie Classification Pilot, sharing the benefits of locally relevant, globally acknowledged, best practice community engagement.
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@VerityFirth

[Engagement Australia @EngagementAust]

An inspiring keynote by Prof. Jim Nyland & Prof. Sharon Bell with a positive outlook on the huge opportunity of the Accord. A chance to reimagine the engaged university as agents of change immersing an inclusive Higher Education in community for public purpose. #eaconference22

[Mitra Gusheh @ilkling]

Appreciating beginning the Engagement Australia conference with a workshop on delivering an authentic Acknowledgement of Country. Thank you Rhys and Emma from Acknowledge This. @EngagementAust #Acknowledgement #community #Engagement

[Mehreen Faruqi @MehreenFaruqi]

There’s a women’s revolution happening in Iran and we in Sydney are with you all the way! ✊🏽

@SabaVasefi

[Verity Firth @VerityFirth]

This was a speech that warmed the cockles of equity practitioners’ hearts across the sector. So good to have a Minister that understands the life changing power of education and the need to ensure that all have a chance to access it. #UAConf2022 @JasonClareMP

[Julia Gillard @JuliaGillard]

I fully endorse these words and Michelle Obama’s call to all of us to keep fighting for women’s rights.

[Engagement Australia @EngagementAust]

Join Jolleen Hicks and the Network for Community Engagement and Carnegie Classification to hear how non-Aboriginal Australia can not only recognise the Aboriginal Community World, but to step into it. Register here https://t.co/Bc7rXbQWp0

[Mitra Gusheh @ilkling]

Marching in support. #ClimateActionNow #ClimateStrike @UTSSocialImpact

[Mitra Gusheh @ilkling]

Help us support UTS students from refugee and asylum seeker backgrounds. Our Humanitarian Scholarship program helps pay living and education costs for students on temporary visas – who don’t receive any government support. Donate today.
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