Diversity and inclusion

Our goals

We value diversity as a central component of workplace wellness and success. It cuts across our core areas of research, engagement, and teaching and learning. As part of this work, we aim to celebrate diversity and support equity and inclusion. As a starting point, our School identifies diversity across five key pillars:

1. Women in science
2. Indigenous research, engagement and inclusion
3. LGBTQIA+ inclusion
4. Supporting staff living with disability or illness
5. Cultural diversity.

In SGEAS we aim to be a supportive, inclusive and accessible environment across all five pillars, but we recognise there is work still to be done.

We play important roles as expert advisers on some of Earth’s greatest challenges: climate change and severe weather, disaster risks, indigenous culture and landscape preservation, energy and resource sustainability, and environmental policy and decision-making. We focus on a range of issues beyond the natural environment as well, including migration and mobility, and the dynamics and cultural politics of urban space. Our focus on diversity is grounded in our endeavour to ensure we are best placed to address these and other multi-disciplinary issues and serve diverse national and global communities.