Ethics, Responsibility and Sustainability in practice

Katitjiny Boya Birrit Summer School (WA) is an exciting program that offers Year 11 and 12 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander students the opportunity to participate in a week-long residential business and entrepreneurship summer school. The program includes yarning, cultural experiences, and a dynamic social program.

The National Indigenous Business Summer School (WA) is a joint initiative of Curtin University, Edith Cowan University, Murdoch University and The University of Western Australia.

Jawun partners with Indigenous communities in place-based capacity building, to empower Indigenous-led change and foster meaningful connections between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians. Curtin University is a Secondment Partner with Jawun.

Jawun places skilled people from Australia’s leading companies and government agencies into Indigenous organisations. These secondees share their expertise and support Indigenous leaders to achieve their own development goals.

Dr Sagi Kunju Kunju Mathew from the School of Management participated as a Jawun secondee in 2019. He was based in the Kimberley region and worked with Gelganyem Trust.

If you are a Curtin staff member and interested in finding out more about the Jawun Experience, please contact:

Alan Carter
Associate Director, Reconciliation
alan.j.carter@curtin.edu.au

Learn more about Jawun

The Athena SWAN Accreditation program is designed to encourage, recognise and advance the participation of women involved in Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics and Medicine (STEMM).

As part of Curtin University’s commitment to the Athena SWAN charter, the Faculty of Business and Law has convened a Gender, Equity and Diversity Working Group, comprising of eleven staff members from the Faculty and chaired by the Faculty’s Deputy Pro-Vice Chancellor, Professor Vanessa Chang.

One of the roles of this Working Group is to raise awareness of and promote gender equity across the Faculty, by identifying barriers to gender equity and facilitating activities that empower, support and strengthen women and gender minorities at all levels for staff and students.

The Panel Pledge initiative is designed to increase gender equity and diversity on panels at conferences, corporate events and other forums to increase the visibility of women and broaden and deepen the conversations generated.

Curtin supports the Panel Pledge as part of our commitment to gender equity and fostering diversity, and encourages all University staff to also ‘take the Pledge’.

Thrive at Work is a Curtin wellbeing initiative centred on designing work that helps employees, organisations and industry to go beyond wellness in the workplace, to thriving. It’s founded on research that conclusively shows that if we’re happy at work and with our work, we’re happier and healthier in all domains of our lives. The initiative, led by the Centre for Transformative Work Design within the Future of Work Institute at Curtin, is supported with foundational funding from the WA Mental Health Commission. It aims to provide evidence-based tools and resources to help workplaces promote positive mental health among employees.

It’s Your business – Family & Domestic Violence Awareness Training has been developed in order to increase the understanding, impacts and causes of family violence, and to prevent, recognise and respond to Curtin staff and students, who may be either victims or perpetrators.

There are two programs in this training suite:

• An e-learning module for all Curtin staff, which focuses on increasing the awareness of Family and Domestic Violence, policy and support services available for staff and students.
• A managers and supervisors workshop, developed specifically for managers and supervisors to increase the understanding, impacts and causes of family violence and to prevent, recognise and respond to staff and students, who may be victims or perpetrators.