About us

Community Engagement @ UNSW team

Our history

Academic and professional staff from the Division of Societal Impact, Equity & Engagement, Faculty of Arts, Design & Architecture and Division of Research & Enterprise have been collaborating to distil and build on lessons from existing community-engaged initiatives at UNSW. 

The team was a coaching project of the Innovation Hub in 2025, to further the aim of building capability, knowledge and resources regarding how UNSW staff and students engage with communities through research, education and collaboration.

2025 Innovation Hub Project Steering Committee

• A/Prof Ruth McCausland, Director of Yuwaya Ngarra-li
• Peta MacGillivray, Senior Research Fellow, Yuwaya Ngarra-li
• Dr Kerryn Drysdale, Senior Research Fellow, Centre for Social Research in Health
• Eva Lloyd, Senior Lecturer, School of Built Environment
• Ursula Brown, Head of Strategy & Governance, Societal Transformation & Equity
• Megan Donnelley, Director of Societal Impact & Transformation
• Rebecca Martin, Manager - Societal Transformation, Societal Transformation & Equity
• Stephanie Ashby, Portfolio Officer, Societal Transformation & Equity
• Jessica Compton, Portfolio Support Officer, Societal Transformation & Equity
• Lily Halliday, Senior Manager (Strategic Initiatives), Research Strategy Office
• Yssy Burton-Clark, Project Officer, Yuwaya Ngarra-li