Community engagement resources
There are many ways in which university staff and students can work ethically and impactfully with community partners, valuing diverse knowledges and developing initiatives collaboratively with and useful to communities.
Here are some resources produced as part of community-engaged partnerships and projects at UNSW.
UNSW resources
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Community of Practice for Inclusive Research with Queer and Trans people, and people with innate variations of sex characteristics (Intersex) (CoPQTI)
The CoPQTI comprises UNSW academics, professional staff, and students, both LGBTQI+ and allies, who work with queer and trans people, and people with innate variations of sex characteristics, to make research and practice more inclusive.
Teaching for Equity and Diversity Community of Practice (TED CoP)
Teaching for Equity and Diversity Community of Practice (TED CoP) is an Education Focussed (EF) initiative set up by the University to promote communities of good practices within the EF cohort, and Professional staff are most welcome.
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Local Aboriginal Land Council Powershift: Sharing the benefits of energy transition (2025) by Heidi Norman, Chris Briggs, Ed Langham, Therese Apolonio, Saori Miyake, Sarah Niklas & Sven Teske, published by the Australian Public Policy Institute.
Food and Water for Life: Strengthening community-led initiatives, 2019–2024 (2025) by Alicia Dunning, Devanshi Gala, Loretta Weatherall, Tyrin Hickey, Christine Corby AM, Trish Tonkin, Ann-Marie Deane, Wendy Spender, Ruth McCausland, Keziah Bennett-Brook & Jacqui Webster, published by the Yuwaya Ngarra-li ‘vision’ partnership between UNSW, the Dharriwaa Elders Group (DEG) and Walgett Aboriginal Medical Service Limited (WAMS), in collaboration with The George institute for Global Health.
Yuwaya Ngarra-li 2020–2023 Evaluation and Learning Report (2024) by Ruth McCausland, Rebecca Reeve, Peta MacGillivray & May Miller-Dawkins, published by UNSW Sydney.
Yuwaya Ngarra-li Briefing Paper: Processes to enable community-led, systemic and collaborative change (2024) by May Miller-Dawkins, Wendy Spencer & Ruth McCausland, published by the Yuwaya Ngarra-li partnership.
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Yuwaya Ngarra-li Research Protocol (2018, updated 2022 and 2024) by Ruth McCausland.
Yuwaya Ngarra-li Data Linkage Protocol Version 2 October 2022 (2022) by Rebecca Reeve, Ruth McCausland, Peta MacGillivray & Virginia Robinson.
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‘Local Aboriginal Land Councils as environmental managers: Practices and opportunities’ (2025) by Heidi Norman in Cosmopolitan Civil Societies: An Interdisciplinary Journal 17(2): 57–70.
‘‘Better together’: codesign of Aboriginal unintentional child injury prevention programme’ (2025) by Nellie Pollard-Wharton, Amy Townsend, BJ Newton, Melanie Andersen, Rona Macniven, Christine Corby, Ruth McCausland, Peta MacGillivray, Wendy Spencer, Kate Hunter, Kathleen Clapham, Christine Erskine, Madeleine Powell & Rebecca Q Ivers, in Injury Prevention, Online First.
‘A Community-Led Approach to Understanding How Service Providers Can Support ‘Ageing well’ for Older Aboriginal People in Australia’ (2025) by Sacha Kendall Jamieson, Wendy Spencer, Virginia Robinson, Ruth McCausland, Melanie Andersen, Rona Macniven, Vanessa Hickey & Peta MacGillivray in Journal of Gerontological Social Work 68(4): 509–536.
‘Research, Learning and Evaluation in the Yuwaya Ngarra-li Partnership: How UNSW is Enabling Elders’ Vision for Change’ (2024) by Ruth McCausland, May Miller-Dawkins, Peta MacGillivray, Rebecca Reeve, I Burton-Clark & Samantha Rich in Transform: the Journal of Engaged Scholarship 8: 17–43.
‘Community-led diversion of Indigenous young people from the justice system: The role of government administrative data’ (2024) by Rebecca Reeve, Ruth McCausland, Peta MacGillivray & Virginia Robinson in International Journal of Law, Crime and Justice 76(100650).
‘Pro bono tax clinics: Aiding Australia’s tax administration and developing students’ self-efficacy’ (2022) by Annette Morgan, Brett Freudenberg, Ann Kayis-Kumar, Van Le, Rob Whait, Michelle Cull, Donovan Castelyn & Connie Vitale in Journal of Australian Taxation 24(1): 76–110.
‘Tax Accounting for Financial Wellbeing: Quantifying the Unmet Need for Pro Bono Tax Advice’ (2022) by Ann Kayis-Kumar, Jack Noone, Youngdeok Lim, Michael Walpole & Gordon Mackenzie in Australian Tax Review 51(3): 228–257.
‘CommUNIty-Led development: A partnership to realize Aboriginal Elders’ vision for change’ (2021) by Ruth McCausland, Wendy Spencer, Peta MacGillivray, Virginia Robinson, Vanessa Hickey, Eileen Baldry & Elizabeth McIntyre in Community Development 52(5): 573–591.
‘The need for a community-led, holistic service response to Aboriginal young people with cognitive disability in remote areas: A case study’ (2020) by Ruth McCausland & Leanne Dowse in Children Australia 45: 326–334.
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'An Elders-Led Response to the Criminalisation of Aboriginal Young People in a Remote Community' (2025) by Peta MacGillivray, Virginia Robinson & Ruth McCausland in the Routledge International Handbook of Critical Policing Studies.
‘Collectivist approaches to Aboriginal economic development: land council enterprises’ (2025) by Heidi Norman in Land Back: Aboriginal land rights in New South Wales, today and always.
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'Nurturing Place: Towards principles for critical, community-centred WIL in diverse settings' (2022) by Eva Lloyd & Iva Durakovic, Australian Collaborative Education Network conference: Beyond 2022—Creating the future with Work Integrated Learning, Melbourne, October 2022.
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Related community engagement resources
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‘Growing our own: A community-led approach to building a local health workforce’ (2025) by Kalie Ashenden & Rhys Millington in Australian and International Journal of Rural Education 35(1): 84–89.
‘Community-Led Design: Building Frameworks for Equity and Justice’ (2025) by Aimée Knight in Designing for Social Justice.
‘Towards Haudenosaunee research sovereignty: Investing in local research and training to support community development’ (2025) by Dawn Martin-Hill, Rebecca Jamieson, Colin M Gibson, Hiliary Monteith, Rohini Patel & Gail Krantzberg in Open Access Government.
‘Facilitating a student and community-centred, experiential approach to research and innovation’ (2023) by Nancy Mungai, Duncan Ongeng, Patience Mshenga & Megan Lindow in University Engagement with Farming Communities in Africa.
‘Desperate for Social Innovation: The Case for the Community-based University’ (2023) by Jane Booth in Journal for Critical Education Policy Studies 21(2): 168-196.
‘Community-Engaged Scholarship: Toward a Shared Understanding of Practice’ (2018) by Cynthia Gordon da Cruz in The Review of Higher Education 41(2): 147–167.
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