Articles related to 'Social Inclusion'
Related topics: Society, Education, Industry Collaboration
Melting pot
A research project uncovers the importance of food and tradition in a Melbourne suburb.
Home on the horizon
In Victoria’s second-largest city of Geelong, a groundbreaking collaboration between researchers, schools and community agencies is poised to make a difference to youth homelessness.
Partnerships drive innovation
This issue provides an insight into how our research and education is driving innovation and contributing to improving lives, the environment and the economy.
Cultural divide finds digital bridge
A Swinburne-partnered project brings the benefits of home internet access to remote Indigenous communities, in many cases for the first time.
Mental health researcher an e-pioneer
Broad dissemination of e-mental health technologies is a very important way of giving people access to timely mental health assistance, says Britt Klein, Director of Swinburne's National e-Therapy Centre.
Online clinic offers helping hand
The Swinburne National eTherapy Centre is helping people with anxiety disorders to regain control through online support .
Team builder’s goal is to deliver quality of life
Universities can no longer avoid the responsibility to lead; to become the modern town hall where debate happens, where controversial subjects can be examined with a bipartisan reach for the best evidence that is available … to help shift the national culture to implicitly value education and research and think beyond being just a mine and a beach,” says Swinburne Vice Chancellor Professor Linda Kristjanson.
Digital divas out to shake, rattle and roll the IT world
Teenage girls from secondary schools across Victoria are the foot soldiers in the battle to correct gender imbalance in ICT
Social make-over for the corporate bottom line
As more companies and individuals explore the possibilities of corporate philanthropy and social investment, they are also keen to learn the skills to make their contributions more effective, says Michael Liffman, director of the Asia–Pacific Centre for Social Investment and Philanthropy (APCSIP) at Swinburne University.
Award to cross-culture business program
Swinburne TAFE’s partnership with several other organisations to develop Indigenous business governance skills has been recognised with a Business/Higher Education Round Table (B-HERT) Award in the category of Best Community Engagement.
Social inclusion bridging the gap
Through programs and innovations at both higher education and TAFE level, Swinburne is proactively linking contemporary Australia, education, Indigenous culture and community development.
Knowledge as a way of being
A new centre for Indigenous knowledge and design anthropology is set to shape the way knowledge is shared in Western universities
Cultural pride helps education start making sense
A Swinburne TAFE program run in partnership with Aboriginal organisations in Victoria is helping to create some stability for disadvantaged Indigenous youths
Colourful, creative and fighting to stay local
Indigenous community television has played an important cultural and educational role in remote communities, but faces an uncertain future with Australia’s imminent conversion to digital television
Research to structure social inclusion
Swinburne's Institute for Social Research runs more than 40 externally funded social inclusion projects a year.
Learning for all
'The clever country' was a political quip that came to symbolise a forlorn hope. Now that ambition has been revived as a priority for sustaining Australia's social and economic vitality.
Accessible education
Social inclusion, built around wider education opportunities, is of particular relevance to Swinburne University of Technology because of its dual structure as a university and TAFE.
Finding lost voices is a story to be told
By learning how to tell their story, at-risk young people are finding their voice and a path back to self-belief
Brave spirits step lightly between commerce and culture
As well as the normal hurdles facing any new business, Indigenous entrepreneurs also have to take account of cultural values that are important to their communities.
Tales from the high-rise
A digital storytelling project by students at Swinburne's Design Centre breathes new life into Melbourne's public housing estates.
Cultural collaboration to better meld communities
A project involving Australia's Vietnamese community and Victoria Police is helping to build bridges and could ultimately benefit other communities.
Language the bridge across a strange new world
A look inside the Adult Migrant English Program offered at Swinburne University of Technology shows a microcosm of the issues migrants and refugees face after arriving in Australia.
How memories of past injustice can travail the future
Societies attempting to confront past injustices may benefit from a new initiative on social memory being developed by a Swinburne historian
No place like home - but no home to place
An inquiry into youth homelessness has ripped the cloak of apathy from the plight of Australia's homeless and pushed the Federal Government to get serious about finding answers.
