Equity diversity & inclusion

• LGBTIQ & Ally Training: After completing the LGBQIT+ and Ally training, active allies become trusted, safe, confidential contacts who continue to learn, recommend areas for improvement at UNSW, call out discrimination when it's safe to do so, and encourage LGBTIQ+ voices. 
• Disability Confident Training: Disability Inclusive Communications gives participants the skills and knowledge to confidently communicate with people with disability, while Disability Confident Managers training assists managers to confidently manage people with disabilities within their teams and facilitate an inclusive and enabling workplace. 
• SBS Inclusion Program
• Disability Inclusion Action Plan
• Disability Resources

• UNSW Division of Equity Diversity & Inclusion
• UNSW Diversity Champions
• First Responders at UNSW – Kensington Campus
• Reporting complaints, sexual harassment, assault and misconduct
• UNSW Workplace Diversity
• UNSW Engineering Women in Engineering
• UNSW breastfeeding room locations
• LGBTIQ support for staff and students
• LGBTIQ ALLY contacts at UNSW
• SBS Inclusion Program

• UNSW Anti-racism policy
• UNSW Breastfeeding Guidelines
• UNSW Career Advancement Fund Procedure for Female Academics During or Returning from Maternity/Adoption Leave
• UNSW Domestic Violence Support Policy
• UNSW Domestic Violence Support Procedure
• UNSW Equity Diversity and Inclusion Policy
• UNSW Flexible Work Guidelines
• UNSW Modern Slavery Prevention Policy
• UNSW Representation on UNSW Committees and Decision making bodies procedure
• UNSW Reasonable Adjustment Guidelines for Managers of Staff with Disabilities
• UNSW Sexual Misconduct Prevention and Response Policy
• UNSW Staff complaint procedure
• Support for staff for reporting instances of bullying, harassment or discrimination

Carer's Fund  

The Carer’s Fund is offered to eligible academics in UNSW Engineering whose careers have been, or will be, interrupted through a period of sustained primary carer status for at least 6 months. This includes maternity leave, primary carer leave or other approved leave for the purpose of being the primary carer for reasons including childcare, care of an immediate family member or household member or someone with strong affinity with the employee, and is to supplement any other UNSW Awards and Funding to be held concurrently.

This award is targeted towards those in a continuing role or on a tenure track or long-term contract ceasing at least 2 years after returning to work.

The purpose of the Fund is to provide eligible staff with funding to assist in maintaining their academic performance and trajectory which could likely be affected by the interruption.

Accelerate fund 

The Accelerate Fund is available to eligible staff in UNSW Engineering whose careers have been, or will be, interrupted through a period of sustained primary carer status for at least 6 months. This includes maternity leave, primary carer leave or other approved leave for the purpose of being the primary carer for reasons including childcare, care of an immediate family member or household member or someone with strong affinity with the employee, and is to supplement any other UNSW Awards and Funding to be held concurrently.

This Fund is targeted towards those on a fixed-term contract, who are not eligible for the Carer’s Fund because they have less than two years remaining on their contract, when returning from carer’s leave. Eligible staff – academics on a fixed-term contract with less than two years remaining on their contract or professional staff in a research intensive externally funded position.

The purpose of the Fund is to maintain career momentum and provide eligible staff with funding to assist in maintaining their career trajectory which could likely be affected by the interruption.

Diversity in Engineering Academic Visitors Funding Scheme

The Faculty of Engineering Diversity in Engineering Academic Visitors Funding Scheme provides funding to bring women, non-binary and gender diverse academics, and academics from low, lower-middle and upper-middle income countries, to UNSW for a short-term visit. The goals of the scheme are to:

• Leverage the existing network between UNSW staff and their external contacts; 
• Encourage recruitment of diverse researchers into the UNSW Faculty of Engineering and/or encourage stronger collaboration between UNSW Engineering and low, lower-middle and upper-middle income countries, to support the UN Sustainable Development Goals; 
• Create a database of world-class, diverse researchers with ties to UNSW; 
• Support research undertaken in collaboration with in-country academics from low, lower-middle and upper-middle income countries; 
• Raise the profile of UNSW as an institution committed to supporting equity, diversity, and inclusion in engineering research.

Joint Seed Funding Guidelines Engineering Human Rights Research Grant

The Australian Human Rights Institute and UNSW Engineering have partnered to offer a Joint Seed Funding program to support multidisciplinary engineering-related projects in human rights. 

The Australian Human Rights Institute (the Institute) was created as part of Strategy 2025 to enhance UNSW’s ability to create a world-class research institute focused on human rights to further the strategic goals of pursuing academic excellence and enhancing our social impact. Its interdisciplinary and evidencebased research informs an understanding of the root causes of human rights and challenges and innovates practical and sustainable solutions to create systemic change. UNSW Engineering supports engineering research that achieves social impact and facilitates interdisciplinary research and educational pedagogy. Its researchers collaborate both internally, across UNSW and with external organisations to build capacity; co-designing innovative translational solutions to grand challenges globally, with a strategic focus in the Pacific region.

The UNSW Engineering Research Grant provides Seed Funding for engineering-related projects that strengthen human rights research at UNSW. The purpose of the Seed Funding is to establish or advance inclusive and interdisciplinary research between UNSW academic researchers, government, local universities, industry, and community. It is expected that the funded projects will result in an application for external funding and at least one publication.