The office also regularly delivers guest lectures into the curriculum on matters broadly relating to the achievement of equity and diversity in the Australian society.

The following workshops are available through  Equity and Diversity :

To arrange training or workshops, contact the Equity & Diversity office on  6488 2252.  

Courageous Conversations about Race

Content: The course builds on the learning gained from Intercultural Communication and is designed to explore how the dimensions of power and privilege play out in multi-racial, multi-ethnic, multi-religious and multicultural settings.

Courageous Conversations will challenge members of the University community to deepen the dialogue by talking openly about race on campus, and beyond. The interactive sessions provide various tools to simulate and inform the conversation and help us think through the different ways race affects our life and professional practice. The session offers participants an opportunity to unpack their own unique racial story (linking it to the local, national and global context), understand the concept of race privilege and examine its influence. Participants can utilise the insights gained to develop a more meaningful and targeted response around race and culture in a University context.

Delivery: The course is highly interactive and utilises the technique of reflecting on diverse racial autobiographies that mirror the dynamic nature of contemporary Australian society.

Achieving Life Balance

Content: The University of WA supports a Life Balance philosophy where paid work and personal life are seen as complementing each other. The University offers a range of flexible work and leave arrangements to assist staff to balance the demands of work with other aspects of their life. This course is designed to assist staff develop a personal 'formula' that works best for them by gaining a practical understanding of the options available. The course can also be customised to assist those with management responsibilities to understand the policy environment and  develop practical skills to manage staff wishing to avail themselves of flexible work and leave practices.

Delivery: The course will involve discussion of the options available through policy and the compelling business reasons for flexibility, together with appropriate case studies reflecting good practice in managing flexibility in the workplace.

Intercultual Communication

Content: This practical course is designed to enhance participant's cross - cultural awareness, knowledge and skills so they operate competently and confidently in multicultural settings. An objective of this program is to assist participants to increase awareness and recognition of their own culturally learned assumptions and behaviours: use increased awareness as a foundation for the develpment of multicultural knowledge; and, build on awareness to apply knowledge toward effective change in multicultural settings.

Delivery: The course is highly interactive and utilises a combination of teqchniques such as videos, group discussion, quiz, racial autobiographies, drawings and personal reflection.

Duration: Variable (several hours to a full day)

Meeting and Promoting the Challenges of Diversity

Content: This course is challenging and invites participants to undertake a deeper exploration of their values, attitudes and assumptions around a range of diversity dimensions encountered in contemporary Australian workplaces e.g. disability, gender, race, sexuality, age and preferred learning and work styles. Concepts covered include definitions and scope of diversity, key diversity issues and practical diversity management skills.

Delivery: The course is highly interactive with a combination of techniques utilised such as videos, group discussion, myth-busting panels, quiz, case studies, autobiographies and group discussion.

Duration: Half day

Managing Diversity - Responsibilities of UWA Managers and Supervisors

Content: This course assists participants to consolidate their understanding of equal opportunity and diversity responsibilities in the contemporary workplace and/or education environment. The session scopes the breatdth of curent legislation and discusses how these laws impact on the responsibilities of managers and supervisors. The training places legal obligations within the UWA policy framework and assists participants to understand this organisation's 'good practice' response to issues such as unlawful discrimination, harassment and victimisation. Participants will develop their understanding of the positive and proactive steps that UWA expects managers and supvervisors to take to ensure issues of discrimination and harassment are neither condoned nor left unresolved.

Delivery: Theoretical presentation as well as interactive group exercises where participants are given the opportunity to apply their knowledge in a practical setting.

Duration: Variable (several hours to half a day)

Equal Opportunity, Diversity and Discrimination

Content:  This course can be tailored to suit the needs of an individual work area and the content is a combination of the above two modules.

Duration: Variable (several hours to half day)

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