From 18th-20th November 2024, Career Connect is hosting a series of events, panels, and workshops focused on essential recruitment skills and job-hunting strategies!
This week offers primarily online events, where students will gain practical tools and strategies to land a job confidently following graduation.
Hosted by the Monash Assistive Tech Team (MATT), this event highlights projects designed to improve the lives of underserved communities.
This is a unique opportunity to engage with impactful tech, discover collaboration opportunities, and learn how students are making a difference.
Whether you’re from the industry, a student, or faculty, we look forward to welcoming you to this exciting event!
Please find the links to free tickets below:
Ability Fest is the first of its kind, promoting access and inclusion within the music industry, and proudly presented by the Dylan Alcott Foundation, Untitled Group & triple j.
It is a music festival designed for everyone to experience the magic of live music. It is a not-for-profit event, with all proceeds going directly to the Dylan Alcott Foundation to help empower young people with disability to achieve their ambitions.
Celebrating their fifth edition, Ability Fest is opening up to ages 16+ to welcome more people than ever before!
In Victoria the festival is located at Naarm/Melbourne’s Alexandra Gardens/Birrarung Marr, an urban space embracing community with sweeping city skyline views and lush greenery.
You can expect all your usual festival amenities like delicious food & drink options, shaded retreats, unique experiences and unforgettable music performances across two stages.
Accessibility remains at the forefront of Ability Fest. The organisers have worked with their partners, Get Skilled Access, to implement the following features to ensure an inclusive and enjoyable environment for all music lovers:
Ability Fest was developed by Dylan Alcott, a four-time Paralympic gold medallist, 15-time Grand Slam champion, and the 2022 Australian of the Year, in collaboration with music festival masterminds Untitled Group, the creators of renowned music festivals including Beyond The Valley, and Wildlands.
Ability Fest uses the power of music to bring people together and help normalise disability whilst setting a standard for accessibility, inclusion and diversity at all events.
The Faculty of IT is aiming to establish a community network for and with IT students who experience chronic illness, neurodiversity, disability (including mental health), and/or impairment.
Although this network will initially be aimed at current IT students, we are hoping to expand this to STEM students once the network is established and if it is successful.
To that end, we are interested to see if you would firstly be interested in participating, and secondly, potentially being consulted in setting up in such a network.
Please Provide Your Expression of Interest Here
Thank you!
Mat Teubert (he/him)
Education Support Officer
As we mark Polio Awareness Month this October, we invite you to stand with the tens of thousands of people affected by polio across Australia who are living with the Late Effects of Polio (LEoP).
The theme, We’re Still Here, highlights the resilience of our community and the urgent need for specialised care for those living with post-polio conditions.
Polio Australia is committed to improving this situation. They offer education and resources to both health professionals and polio survivors to support the management of post-polio conditions.
This year, over 90 landmarks will be participating in their Polio Awareness Month illumination campaign to help raise awareness for all people affected by polio living in Australia.
1. Contact local landmarks in your area – If you haven’t already, there might still be time to contact your local council, or a building or landmark in your city/town. There is a template you can copy and paste (make sure you fill in the parts in brackets!). You can find the template at this website. If it’s too late, ask them about next year! They typically light up the second week of the month.
2. Remind them! – If you’ve already sent out a letter or email and haven’t heard anything, why not give them a little nudge? You can forward your original email to them with a polite “in case you missed it” message, or perhaps give them a call.
3. Take photos! – If a landmark in your area is illuminating, check it out and take a photo to send to – office@polioaustralia.org.au. They would love to post it on our Polio Awareness Month website as well as their social media accounts.
There are many events to celebrate Polio Awareness Month and World Polio Day.
Keep checking back, as these lists are continuously updated as we hear about more events. If you are aware of any other events in your area, email them at office@polioaustralia.org.au, and they will add them to their website.
Thanks for helping us spread the word!
You are invited to attend a workshop for disabled artists and anyone curious about making accessible theatre, led by Jess Kapuscinski-Evans.
This workshop starts with a one-hour exploration and discussion of an existing theatre text, followed by a performance excerpt from The Waiting Room Arts Company’s new work 2050: a post-apocalyptic drama about Melbourne (Naarm) in the year 2050, exploring environment, disability and asking, “what does utopia mean to you?”
Jess Kapuscinski-Evans is a writer/performer and sings with “crip folk” trio the Bearbrass Asylum Orchestra. She is artistic director of The Waiting Room Arts Company and enjoys playing with existing texts and pop culture.
Jess is supported by Monash University Performing Arts Centres in the development of her new play, 2050.
Monash University Library is developing an Equity, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) Action Plan, as part of their commitment to Monash University’s EDI Framework.
They’re working closely with the EDI team at DVC Education to develop a three-year plan. The Library wants to consult widely to capture and reflect the diverse perspectives and needs of our communities.
As part of this process, the Library invites Monash University staff and students to contribute their ideas and experiences: good, bad or indifferent.
You can do this in two ways:
Your responses will help shape our plan so that it can have a real impact at Monash.
Our study is all about creating data tools that are universally accessible, with a special focus on the autistic community.
Our aim is to find out what kinds of visuals and ways of showing data to help people understand and use information better in their everyday lives and jobs.
We really want to make sure this study works for you, so please tell us if there’s anything we can do to make it better for you!
As a big thank you for your time, you’ll get an AUD $50 voucher for groceries.
*This project has Monash University Human Research Ethics Committee approval – Project ID: 41238
Do you ever feel that your voice is zipped up and there’s no way to express yourself at the right time or in the right way?
At the Monash Assistive Technology and Society (MATS) Centre, we are doing interdisciplinary research for and with university students in Australia who are at risk of marginalisation and exclusion because they communicate differently. These differences may arise from disabilities, neurodiversity, and native languages/cultures.
In such situations, information can be exchanged without or alongside speech via augmentative and alternative communication (AAC). You might not be familiar with this term, but you may already be using various forms of AAC even if your tutor/supervisor isn’t aware of it!
Conventionally, AAC includes systems, approaches and practices like Auslan, communication boards, whiteboards, text-to-voice engines, email/texting, and subtitling.
More broadly, for multilingual/international students, it may just involve using everyday mobile apps like Google Translate, Otter.ai, or ChatGPT so you can understand better in English.
We need your help to understand what kind of AAC you regularly use to address your communication needs at Monash, how you feel about using it, and what you think can be done to make Monash a more inclusive place through AAC.
To work towards this goal, we are inviting you to participate in a 15 to 30-minute online survey.
In return, you will gain a renewed sense of purpose – something greater than your past exams – because you know how your experience, when heard by the right people, could help redefine inclusion in academia.
Join us in unzipping our diverse voices together, along with our pride (or frustration) in being different!
The University’s marketing team is hoping to showcase some of our students who may have benefited from the Monash Guarantee or Special Entry Access Scheme (SEAS).
We’re sharing this opportunity to see if you would be interested in sharing your story.
This opportunity is open to domestic, undergraduate students who have a WAM of 60 or higher who feel they have benefited from SEAS or the Monash Guarantee. If you need a reminder of what is covered in SEAS and the Monash Guarantee see our website.
If you’re interested, we’ll send you some questions about how Monash Guarantee or SEAS has helped you to achieve your aspirations. We may also ask about extracurricular activities you’ve enjoyed as a student.
If you’d like to participate, you will need to consent to the use of your image and a quote to be used for marketing purposes by the University to highlight the positive outcomes of these opportunities.
It’s possible that the story may be picked up by a news outlet, and if this happens you may be asked for an interview, but this is not guaranteed, and you would be free to decline the opportunity.
If you’re interested, could you please email Susan Newland (details are below) By Friday June 28th.