Social Impact Grants information session
On Monday 19 February 2024, we ran an information session for those interested in applying for a Social Impact Grant – Community-engaged research and practice.
For those who were unable to attend, a recording of the session is available below.
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Alright. So we have roughly half to two-thirds of the people we were expecting to day
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so I am going to kick off, which means I am going to start to record.
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So for anyone who has just
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joined us, welcome to the information session for the social impact grants.
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As that fun little voice say, I am recording this session, so to let you know
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that.
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The only reason we record it is so that it's available for people to view who
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otherwise can't make this meeting today.
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So again thank you all for joining us here today.
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Before I kick off, I of course would like to acknowledge Country.
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Today I'm working from home so I am actually working from the lands of the
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Bedegal and Gadigal people, but I am sure a lot of people will be coming in
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from UTS, which is of course the traditional lands of the Gadigal people), and
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I wanted to really take a moment to pause and recognise the long histories of knowledge from those
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all around New South Wales or all around Australia.
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I really love this image that I put up here on the screen of all the different
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languages and the different diversity that comes from the lands that I really
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think we don't always recognise and do a really poor job of recognising.
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You can't see it there, I don't think, but it's about recognising I think as
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well the lands that we all are part of and have touched along our lives.
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I grew up on the lands of the Wangal lands of Strathfield, which are really
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dry and leafy, and I think I've taken so much from my time on those lands as well.
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Feel free to acknowledge the lands on which you are on in the chat if you're
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not calling in from any of those. Thank you.
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So to give you just a really broad overview of what we're
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going to run through, we have an hour together today and really the purpose is
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to just run through and give you as much information on the grants - I'm going
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too fast - run through all the basic information you'll need to note as part of
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applying for the grants.
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So we will talk through the history, the kind of really basic information
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you'll need, talk about the different categories and also give you an idea of
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some case studies of grants that we've funded in the past.
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We'll talk through the application criteria, we'll talk through eligibility and we'll
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how the panel will assess the applications.
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Then I'll walk you through the UTS Social Impact Framework.
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I appreciate a lot of people here are from UTS.
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We do have some that are not.
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But I guess the grants program really comes and relates back to the UTS Social
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Impact Framework so I will just spend some time talking about that.
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Then we have my wonderful team member Amber here, and they
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will talk to you about working with community and kind of best practices for
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that because these grants are really focused in working with community.
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I'll talk you through the nitty gritty of the evaluation and reporting
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requirements if you are successful and then we'll just end with talking about
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all the key dates coming up between now and the end of the applications, some
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helpful tips I've got for you in my time running these grants and then
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obviously leave some time for questions at the end.
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On questions, by the way, we also have someone - I have my
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amazing team member Mary here too who will be putting helpful links in the chat
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to things I am talking about.
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I appreciate some of you will acknowledge it is hard to talk and monitor the
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chat so we will have time for Q&As in the end but do feel free to pop things in
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the chat.
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We will see if we can answer them as we go.
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If not, we will definitely get to them at the end.
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So before I kick off to really get to the information about
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the grants, I wanted to take a moment to really
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stop and
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talking about when we are talking about social impact.
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Social impact is at the heart of the grants.
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A lot of people over the years have asked me what are you looking for and what
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kind of things.
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The definition of social impact is there on the screen but what we want these
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grants to do is contribute to positive social change.
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We have some parameters around that, of course, but really that's what we want
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these grants to do and for us, that change really looks like a significant
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change.
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It can be for an individual, for community, for environment and the positive
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change that we're looking to see really does have that impact where there is
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more equity and sense of - increased sense of social justice or inclusion.
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So, of course, that looks different across all the different streams of
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amazing work we do here at UTS, that looks from law, to science, it looks
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different to everyone, but really we just want these grants to contribute to
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that positive sense of social
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To give an impact to the grants, these were established in 2017 and they were really developed kind of in response to the UTS Social Impact Framework.
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I will get into that later but essentially it's the university's kind of map
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towards social change and social justice, and so they were really kind of
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developed as a way to really connect the university's ability to increase
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social change and also to partner with the community to do it and it really
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became an idea that we could really co create and really engage the community
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and really create meaningful projects in that way.
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Since 2017, we've given out 66 grants of $5,000.
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These grants have been awarded across all 10UTS faculties and organisations
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and this year we have 14 grants of $5,000 to be awarded.
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So I just want to take a small moment here as well to make a note that this
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year we also have another completely separate stream of grants called the
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social impact grants enabling change using Social Impact Framework
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IF.
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These are run by another team) and they're not talking about what we're
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talking about today because these are internal, not external.
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Mary will pop a link in the chat to these grants just in case anyone is interested.
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These grants are really about internal change at UTS but just reiterating that
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this session is about the community-engaged research and practice grants which
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are external grants, so that's between internal/external partnership for the
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university.
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Mary will pop a link in the chat.
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If you want to find more information about those internally focused grants,
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you will be able to follow up.
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I think if you could also put the contact email as well, Mary. Amazing.
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So to get started on some basic information about social
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impact grants, like I said there's 14 social impact grants available this year
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and they are available across two different categories.
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So we have two categories - one is the Research & Practice Grants, which is
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kind of your general catch-all category, and then we have a specific category
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that's focused on the areas around UTS and those are called local community
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grants.
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So we have 10 research and practice grants, your kind of general grants, and
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then four Local Community Voice Grants.
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So all grants have to be community partnered, which really
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for us means that your work has to be really community engaged and really - you
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must be working in reciprocal partnership with the community, and that goes
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across everything.
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So that means you should be working with a community from identifying the need
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for the project, the design, the implementation and really the overall use of
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the research and practice as well.
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So we expect you to have really kind of engaged with the
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community before you have applied for this grant and as part of your grant we
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really want you to tell us how you've engaged with the community and how that
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partnership really is reciprocal and co led.
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So all grants have to have a community partner.
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I will talk through more how we measure that in the criteria.
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But just saying that straight up.
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The value of each grant is $5,000, though your faculty may
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match the amount, which means you would end up with a grand total of $10,000.
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So we have gone out to all the faculties and asked them to match and so far we
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have the Business, health, Fiat, law and DAB who have agreed to match so far).
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So if you are from any of those faculties and you're successful, then your
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total amount should end up being $10,000, which would be $5,000 from us and
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$5,000 from your corresponding faculty.
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So the kind of projects that we're looking for - so grants -
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like I said, they're really broad and can include a range of different projects.
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You can see on there it says we accept research projects, teaching and
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learning projects, any kind of initiatives or events that aim to build a
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culture of inclusion or relate to social justice at UTS itself.
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Initiatives that support collaborations between UTS and the communities we're
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connected to, or really any other projects or programs that further the purpose
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of the Social Impact Framework.
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Again I'll really go into detail on the Social Impact Framework, so if you
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have no idea what I'm talking about, don't worry, but that is the kind of broad
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remit of projects we accept under those grants.
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So another point that's part of something I really want to
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stress is that there aren't any limitations on what aspects of the project this
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grant funds.
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It could be used for a whole project or it could be used for a certain part or
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for certain aspects or initiatives of a project.
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So you could use this funding as seed funding to help progress a project from
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the ideation phase to more of a kind of middle phase, delivery phase, or it
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could be used as a catalyst to get a current project into that kind of further
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final stage, or it can be used to evaluate a delivered project, or kind of help
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produce or fund the findings or dissemination of a project as well.
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So there's really no limitations in the
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our ethso for the grant that tells you it has been to be for a certain part or
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aspect for the project.
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It's really broad, so just to make that really clear.
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So to give you a little break down of the two categories that
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I mentioned before, as I said, the research and practice category, your really
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general catch-all category.
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There are no almostations on any jeef graphical limitations.
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It could be based anywhere in Australia, anywhere in the world, and there's no
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focus area that we tell you to focus on, so no aspect of social change or
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priority areas that we want you to focus on in the general category.
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For the local community voice category, we do have some
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limitations because, again, we're trying to focus on the local areas around UTS.
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So for this category, your project and partners have to be based in the
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suburbs surrounding UTS, so that the Glebe, Pyrmont, Haymarket and Ultimo, and
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the project has to respond to one of the key priorities listed there).
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The will be we have this Local Community Voice Grant is in 2023), our team at
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the centre did some really great work with the community to really talk about
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what the community saw as their own vision for the future.
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So at the heart of this work was oofbl acknowledging that there's a lot of
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change going on around our local communities and we really wanted to work with
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the community to see them as the experts in what they needed for their
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communities to thrive and for what they saw as a vision for their communities
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as well.
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So we spoke to about 100 people through workshops, we really
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used a kind of engaged kind of reciprocal way of developing the theory of
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change together, and out of a theory of change we developed, these were the
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areas that the community told us they wanted us to focus on.
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So they told us they wanted to think about a sustainable environment,
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inclusive public spaces, that really kind of civic community voice decision
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making, having affordable and adequate housing and having really accessible
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public transport.
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So we're kind of basically doing a call-out to see what projects we can
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develop that would respond to one of these areas.
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I will talk about a case study later on but just to give you an idea of that
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kind of category being really kind of locally focused for the benefit of the
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community: So to give a quick note about eligibility, so who
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can apply for these grants?
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Any member of UTS staff can apply, so that means if you're a professional, if
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you're an academic, if you're permanent, sessional, casual, if you're UTS staff
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member you can apply for these grants.
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We also take applications from UTS students, so if you are a student, you must
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identify an academic or professional staff mentor and a supervisor, so if it's
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a staff application, you would have a staff member to which the funds would be
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dispersed into if you were successful, the grant funds would be given to the
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staff member supervising you, and then you would have joint responsibility for
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acquittal of those funds.
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So students have applied in the past, we do encourage it, and it can create a
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really good partnership.
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We also encourage group applications and we also encourage
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previous recipients - so if you have received a grant before, you are still
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eligible for a grant this year in the new funding round, your project would
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just have to be in a new area of research or practice.
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So to move on to the
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I don't know why I set it up like this but I did - so I will highlight each
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criteria that your applications will be assessed on and to give you more of an
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idea of what we're looking for in each one of those dot points.
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There's two streams of grants.
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The criteria applies to both streams of grants except local community voice
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have just a little bit of extra criteria to make sure you're meeting those
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specific requirements of it being a local project.
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So the first criteria I will run you through is that the
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project aligns with the purpose and vision of the UTS Social Impact Framework.
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Again, that's completely foreign to you, don't worry? Request request.
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The next session is running through that).
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But the project has to align with some aspect of the UTS Social Impact Framework.
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So the next point is about the project having the potential to contribute to
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the positive transformation of communities, so again as I mentioned before,
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that's how we measure that social impact, having that positive change or
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positive transformation of communities.
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Communities for us is really broad.
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Again we're not trying to look for certain type of communities or exclude any.
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Your communities might be communities at UTS.
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It might be specific demographic communities such as specific migrant
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communities or, for example, the LGBTQIA+ community.
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The only exception to this is obviously the Local Community Voice Grant where
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your communities must be locally focused so they have to be communities based
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in Pyrmont, Ultimo, Glebe or Haymarket.
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So the other thing is, like I said before, your project -
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your lead, your team, you have to have partnered with a community organisation
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or an external stakeholder that's part of the community, and to flesh this out
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a bit more, I guess what we mean by this is last year people partnered with
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peak community organisations or the peak organisations in their field of
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research that they were looking for, or they partnered with just one person in
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the community, and they worked on a project together. So it's really broad.
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It can be one person, a small grassroots community organisation or a peak body
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organisation but it does have to represent that community and it does have to
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be, like I said, a really reciprocal partnership as well.
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The last point of that is the way that we measure that.
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So we really do want to see that you can demonstrate significant engagement
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with your community partner to identify the need of the project, and I guess in
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this way, we really trust you, like we just need your word that your community
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partner is involved in an authentic way.
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The application for this grant isn't onerous.
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It too many questions, we know everyone is busy, but what we want to see is
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you demonstrate how you have had that significant engagement with your
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community partner, how you are working together, how you will ensure it is
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co-Lead.
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Amber will talk a bit more about those questions later on but we really want
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you to demonstrate that to us in order to meet this criterion
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criterion.
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So the other criteria points are that the intended
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beneficiaries will also have considerable involvement in the project.
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We also want you to make sure that the intended outcomes of your project are
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clear and achievable within the time frame and resources.
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Unfortunately as you all know, UTS's annual budgets are clearly so for
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successful applicants, you would get this money released to you in the start of
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May.
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You would have to spent it by finance deadlines which are about end of
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December).
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So we really want to make sure that you can look at your - you have your
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intended outcomes and that they are really achievable within the time frame
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with the resources that you have.
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We really want you to show us there is a clear and detailed approach to how
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you're going to demonstrate those outcomes as well and we would really, really
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like for that demonstration to include the perspectives of your partners and
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your beneficiaries and we also really want to make sure that again relating
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back to the time frame of the grants so you can really show us that the project
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activities and how you're going to use the funding is really clear, really
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achievable and detailed to us as well.
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It's really good for you to be as clear and concise as possible but it would
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be really good for you to demonstrate to us that you really thought obviously
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all this through about how you would achieve what you want to in the time frame
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and really give us a break down of how you would spent those funds.
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Obviously you night not be able to be budget-line specific but if you can give
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us an overview of it's $5,000, so say you use some of the money for research
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assistant, you might use some for travel, you might use some for publication -
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if you could just give us some broad but clear detailing of that funding, that
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would be really what we're looking
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. OK.
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The other ones we're looking for - these are just your stock standard.
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There's a clear indication of how the project findings will be
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are looking for your project lead or the team to have existing expertise within
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the subject area.
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We want you to identify any risks there might be and how you're going to
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address them, how you're going to mitigate them, and your project also has to
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be endorsed by your supervisor, unit Director and the faculty Dean as well.
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So that's all the standard criteria across both grants and then there's a bit
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of extra criteria, as I mentioned, for the Local Community Voice Grant.
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So all local community voice projects have to meet all the
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criteria I just mentioned but,ditionly, like I mentioned, the projects have to
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be in partnership with) with an organisation or a group or a person from Glebe,
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Pyrmont, Haymarket or Ultimo), and they also have to address at least one of
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those five community-identified priority areas, so that is ensuring the
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community voice informs decision making, influencing attitudes and behaviours
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to create a sustainable and thriving environment, using public and private
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spaces to connect people,en suring adequate and affordable housing and
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improving public transport.
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OK.
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MARY: there is one question in the chat.
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It's from Bianca and they said can the community partner who represents a
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certain community be a UTS staff member?
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ANUSHA MILLER: It's a good question.
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In general when we talk about communities at UTS, we generally refer to
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students or subsections of different communities - like student communities at
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UTS or potentially it might be, for example, like the staff pride network,
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different kind of communities around UTS.
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If it was one individual staff member but they were representing their
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community maybe not as a UTS staff member, I think maybe that's something we
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would consider.
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But what I would recommend - on things like that, I am available for a chat
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just to kind of discuss - it's a bit hard to do it in a webinar but we do - I'm
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always available to chat because in some ways it would totally be applicable
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and in other ways maybe not.
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So if you want to put the social impact grants email, Bianca, I can get back
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to you.
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MARY: Thank you so much.
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ANUSHA MILLER: I will move on if there want any other questions,
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Mary? Amazing. Cool. Thank you so much.
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Now to talk to you about the UTS Social Impact Framework.
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Now, I'm confident a lot of you will be across this but for anyone who isn't,
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I am going to run through it just because, as I said, the grants were really
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born from this social impact map at UTS and one of the criteria obviously is
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that your grant has to relate back to one of the areas in the Social Impact
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Framework, which I will run through now.
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So this is the UTS Social Impact Framework.
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I believe on Zoom it is terribly inaccessible and you can't really see it, so
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Mary is going to link right now to both the web page where this framework lives
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and then the actual framework itself.
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So on your own machines and devices, it will be accessible.
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It might just not be right now via Zoom because Zoom compresss everything.
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As a very basic introduction for anyone who is not across the UTS Social
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Impact Framework, essentially it is UTS's social justice map, social justice
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agenda.
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It's our - the university's plan of saying what desired future do we want to
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get to, what social change do we want to see, and in what areas can we actually
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make that happen?
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So universities are for public good, we all know that.
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We know that universities have significant
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contribute to social change in the communities.
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We know we have a lot of tools at our
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to contribute to a healthy, sustainable and just society.
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So this framework has been around for quite a long time and it really has kind
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of an influence on all the work we do and there's six different areas in which
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we think that we can really create that change, and those are the six that I will run through
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. So the first one is about increasing number of equity target
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groups who come to UTS and complete a higher education degree.
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So this is really about getting students from those kind of equity groups into
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UTS and also supporting them while they're at UTS to ensure that they get that
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degree at the end.
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We know that there's so much evidence linking higher education completion to
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massive social and economic benefits and we - well, the framework really sees
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this as a call to action for universities.
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This is about universities making sure that they can support, that they change
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to enable these students to come and have a really successful time here.
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It's not about just getting the students in and saying, "Great, thanks, there
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you go" but actually about changing and supporting these students to be
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successful, to thrive at UTS and supporting them where they need so they can
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get that degree.
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The next part of the framework really talks about empowering
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students to have the agency to enact
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social responsibilities.
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Students come to UTS and they have civic capacity on their own but UTS really
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wants to recognise its role as an enabler to grow this social consciousness of
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its students.
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You want people to come, no matter what field they're studying in -
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communications or nursing or science - to really come to UTS and have those
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supportive environments where they can build their opportunities to have that
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social conscience, where they can build those opportunities to develop their
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own personal and social skill s in order to give back to society in a really
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socially impactful way, and that's what we want UTS students to graduate and
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leave with.
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That's what we want our graduates to have.
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The third domain talks about UTS staff.
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So we want not only our students but also our staff to really have capacity
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and the confidence to maximise their own social impact and that really means
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it's something that Bianca as talking about before, but UTS staff members both
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as UTS staff and the work that they do inside the university but also the work
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that they do outside the university as well - social impact goes across so many
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different things and we know our staff are so talented and so passionate and so
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capable and with this, we really want UTS staff to be supported both in their
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professional and personal roles to support social change.
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We want this at the university
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like our institutional strategies support staff to do that).
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We have processes and programs that support staff to do that and to really
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recognise staff that are able to do this as well.
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The next part of the framework talks about our research.
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So obviously university - a big part of the work we do is reser vp.
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And the fourth domain talking about identifying the need for really targeted
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research and for having teaching of programs that have social impact and
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actively contribute to our communities.
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So obviously we want our research to be impactful but in the frame of the
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Social Impact Framework, we really want our research to have that long lasting
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change in communities.
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We want to make sure UTS staff have academic freedom and we really want to
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make sure that our ways of doing things, our customs, really enables
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communities to use that research and for it to be really impactful as
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. Number 5 is about UTS itself as an institution being an
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advocate, critical voice and thought leader on issues that concern and impact
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our communities.
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As I said before, UTS or universities in general have massive power.
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They're massive vessels in which big social and cultural and human capital
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kind of flow and grow, and for UTS, really that means UTS has a role to engage
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in meaningful dialogue with society.
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It has a public purpose, responsibility to kind of foster those debates on the
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social issues that really matter to everyone.
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Obviously this is through academia but there's also other channels that we can
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really popularise the idea and have a great impact, and the framework really
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sees that UTS has to be a critical voice, a real advocate, on pushing these
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kinds of ideas as well.
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So last area of the Social Impact Framework talks about UTS
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business operations and strategies, and this is really about saying: well, we
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have this whole social impact frame work, we have all these things we set out
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to do for our students and staff and university at a whole, but we also need to
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make sure our own business practices are ethical, responsible and sustainable.
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We really have to be practising what we preach and making sure that as a
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university as a whole, that inside for our students we are inclusive and
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accessible and fair, and that's really just about making sure that UTS as an
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institution itself can really have the tools it needs to bring about social
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change by being as ethical and responsible as we can.
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So that's the framework.
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Again, take your time.
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Mary would have sent those links in the chat to look through it.
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I've never had a project that had a problem relating back to the Social Impact
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Framework.
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It is quite broad and covered a lot of things and most projects are able to
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find a way that relates back to it).
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Again if it is something you are worried about through the application, feel
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free to email me and we will figure out a way because I've never had a project
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that didn't link.
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) As long as your project relates to social change at UTS, or that will also
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enable UTS to be part of that change, you will be fine.
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So I'll hand over to Amber now, who will talk to you about
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working with communities.
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As I said before, one of the key features of this grant is that it is
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reciprocal with the community and Amber will talk to us today about how to make
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that best happen.
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So I'll hand over to Amber.
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AMBER LOOMIS: Thank you, Anusha.
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What I'll do is give a bit of a whistle stop tour of best practice in
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community engagement and I want to acknowledge that many of you in the Zoom
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room with us today probably work in this space and have a great deal of
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expertise, but as Anusha said, community engagement and genuine partnership is
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at the heart of social impact grants so we really just want to drive that home
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and talk a little bit more about what we mean when we say "community
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engagement".
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Hopefully my internet is OK.
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It's a bit funny with the storm, so sorry I can see your community, Joanna.
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I'll do my best.
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Hopefully my internet holds out.
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In terms of engaged research and practice, what I'll do is
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talk about these three principles up on the slide here and then I will talk
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through some questions you can really ask yourself to assess the rigouro of
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your community engagement practice and to see how that aligns with the criteria
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of the grant.
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So the first one up here is relationships and reciprocity.
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Unsurprisingly, community engaged work really is all about relationships and
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Anusha mentioned already that reciprocity piece, which is really key to the
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work that we do at UTS, to the work that is carried out by the Social Impact
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Framework.
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And by this we mean relationships and
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work with community go beyond consultation.
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So it's really about having meaningful relationships with community, community
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organisations, at every single phase of your project - from the conception of
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it all the way through to the dissemination of your findings.
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And in that, that reciprocity really is about ensuring that there is mutual
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benefit for everyone who is involved.
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So, unfortunately, universities do have a long history of extractive research
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and also sometimes work that's done with the best of intentions can -
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particularly with marginalised communities - can leave folks feeling
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disempowered throughout processes.
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So centring relationships and reciprocity is really all about ensuring that we
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do research, engaged research and practice, in a different way.
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Another principle relating to community engaged research and
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practice is context, context, context.
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When I think of context, it's from two different perspectives.
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Firstly it's from understanding the context deeply and richly that you're
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working in.
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Because this is a social impact grants process that does benefit community
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partnership, that comes from the relationships from the people that you're
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working with and for).
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The other component of context that I think is really
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important to consider in this is the types of engagement that you do and the
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work that you do will really depend on what communities you're working with and for.
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So communities maybe out in Penrith might look and need something a little bit
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different than what's happening in Glebe, as an example.
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So in community engaged work, it's really important to be attuned to the
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specific needs and experiences that diverse
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communities need and want and deserve to have.
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The third principle up here is power and ethical practice.
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So again as Anusha mentioned quite a few times, we're very conscious that
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universities do hold significant amounts of power, and what we want to really
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do through communiti-engaged research is, as much as we can, balance and, even
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better, tip the scales of power back towards communities.
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So community-led work is driven by folks on the ground, folks who are impacted
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by the work that you're doing, the research that you're doing, and really
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thinking through what different power dynamics might exist in your project.
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So on the next slide here, I'll just talk through some
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different types of questions you can actually ask yourself
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assess your community engagement, again emphasising that it's a crucial
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component of this social impact grant program.
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So that first question is really about asking yourself how are you actually
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involving community and what does that look like?
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So are you collaborating with people, how are people represented, who are you
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actually informing and making sure, as I said before, that this is embedded
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throughout every single stage of your project - from the design of it to the
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application process, your descriptions, data analysis, all the way through to
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dissemination, making sure that communities are involved in every single stage.
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Another key question you can ask yourself is linking back to
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reciprocity, so ask yourself what benefits you, what benefits community, not
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just in the immediate but in the long term as well.
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So ensuring that your project doesn't have any negative
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ramifications or some of that risk mitigation stuff that Anusha was talking
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about, but also looking at the longer term impact on social change that your work has.
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You can ask yourself how have I adjusted my own practice?
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I think this question is one that I would love to see more and more people ask
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themselves as they do community-engaged work.
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Ask yourself: what have I learned through processes?
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What have I learned through working with community?
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What kinds of feedback am I gepractice?
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You can ask yourself who has power, so you can do some really deep
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not just who has power in terms of who works at the university, who has
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resources through the university, but also in terms of race, class, gender -
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all of those different lenses that different socio and cultural identities
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bring, thinking through it in your project, how those things might play out and
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how they can be shifted again to balance or, ideally, tip completely in favour
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of community-led solutions.
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Then, finally, being a social impact program, really what
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changes does your research or practice advocate for?
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So this links back to this is all about social justice and social change, so
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through the practical components of your research or your program and what
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impacts that actually has on communities and what positive change you can
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actually contribute to.
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So I know that's a very quick run-through of
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community-engaged practice.
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There are some really great frameworks out there that do exist.
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A lot of really great work in this space comes from First Nations communities,
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so if you've ever got any questions, there are great things that you can access
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through Google but also as Anusha said before, if you've got questions about
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whether or not your project has that balance right, is centring community, is
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working with community in authentic ways, definitely email the social impact
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grants and Anusha can chat through it with you.
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ANUSHA MILLER: Amazing.
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Thank you so much for that, Amber.
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That was super-helpful.
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So I wanted to talk now, as we're just finishing up, just to show you some case
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of previous recipients of the grants, just to give you an idea of the kind of
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projects that we funded in the past.
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So I wanted to highlight one here.
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This was one from I think 2022 and this was a project that was about
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highlighting the voices of autistic girls, women and gender-diverse people.
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So basically Dr Grove here worked with people from those communities in order
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to develop a research agenda that was based solely on the voices of autistic
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girls, women and gender-diverse people.
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It really placed their voices at the centre.
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The whole point of the research was to really identify areas from this
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community and to really follow that notion of not doing research without us but
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instead with us.
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So this is a grant that got successful funding from us.
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Mary is also going to link a few more case studies in the chat.
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I couldn't run through them all.
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The ones successful last year haven't been written up as case studies yet.
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They are still being written up as final reports.
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There is information on our website of previous recipients of the research and
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general grant).
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You can see the kind of things we are funding, the community partners, the
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kind of projects, so get a sense of the kiengd of things we are looking for and
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how well your project fits in that as well.
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But, again, always happy to have a chat through that as well.
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The other case study that I wanted to show you was for our
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the successful project that got funding as part of this category last
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checks community card.
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This is a card that exists) (around the Ultimo community.
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It's a form of community currency and at the time before the grant, it was
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only developed as a physical card and the whole project was to turn physical
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card into a digital card so it could expand the project and also reduce the
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admin for the person that was running it.
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So Raj Calisa from UTS Rapido) partnered with a community member called Osca
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and they worked together to really develop a whole plan for the digitisation of
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this card.
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You can see here, I am sure it's probably a little small on people's Zoom's
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screens but they worked together between the card and Oscar represents the
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uniting ha ris community centre and Rapido to come up with a) script and role
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play for how the card would be used.
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They developed the application and they rolled it out and had some really
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grecomes with it.
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That is what we mean when we talk about projects done with the local community
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for the benefit of the local community.
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That is that kind of really local example of the outcome that we want to see
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there as well.
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So that was just a really great project that we funded last year.
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So I wanted to talk about some tips and I guess learnings
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that we've had from past projects and from past years of running the program.
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As we kind of harped on again throughout this webinar, your project really does
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need to have that kind of community identified social need and you really do
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need to collaborate and co-design where possible.
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We've had a lot - I've seen a lot in the past of really worthiry search
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projects that either don't have a community partner at all) or are treating one
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light conversation with a partner or potential - flagging someone as a
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potential partner in their application, and this really isn't at this stage
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what we're looking for.
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We really want to see that there has been significant engagement with your
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community partner, whoever that is, and that you really have as best as
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possible been able to really co lead and co-design a lot of aspects of the
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project together.
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We really do want to see that you do have a realistic scope and time frame for
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the project.
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Again, if you were successful, you would get the money in May and have to
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spend it by December.
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The project of course can continue on.
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Like I said, because we fund certain aspects of projects, you might be the
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beginning and then obviously the project will go on, but we really want to see
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the things that you identify as being able to do in your application are
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realistic and able to be done in the time frame that we have given you.
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We also want to make sure that you
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show that your research will be targeted, that you are able to really have a
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framework for any evaluation projects you might want to do.
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We really want you to give yourself time to come up with the project if you're
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in the ideation phase or to make time to have a chat with me if you need some
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more development time.
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The grants close on April 14, so we are giving you about eight weeks really to
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kind of - if you need to go out and find a community partner and have that kind
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of engagement and then be able to work on the application to submit it.
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If you need ethics approval, we really suggest you give time for that and once
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you're successful, if you're successful, we really want to encourage you to
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allow yourself to give yourself time to spend the money by December, which
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comes up much, much quicker than you would think, and to also give yourself
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time to navigate the university's admin as well because it is quite a
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bureaucracy to navigate sometimes and I have had people caught out in a
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last-minute stress in either needing to get approvals or funding through and it
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can be very stressful.
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That would be my tips and learnings from past projects as well.
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So now to the fun stuff.
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This is basically just how to apply.
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So this year we're using a digital platform for applications.
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It's called GoodGrants.
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It is very simple, very user friendly to use.
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You will be able to use your octa sign nsh in.
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If you go to my apps you will see GoodGrants there.
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It has a purple icon or if you go to the website you will be able to sign in
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via your credentials or just log in via username and password) (.
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It should be really simple so if it's not, please email me if there are any
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issues. I really hope there aren't.
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That's the platform we will be using for applications.
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Mary will be linking to things I'm talking about as we go but we also have all
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the nfrgt up on the UTS social impact grants website.
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So the website has pretty much all the information I have run you through so
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far.
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It also has on it an information brochure which again contains most of the
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information I have talked to you about today but also has a blank application
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form in it so you can have a look at the application form before you apply
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obviously.
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GoodGrants as a feature allows you to have a look at the form, to start your
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application and save it and you can go back obviously and complete it before
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the deadline.
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Once you submit, you can also go back and edit your application if you so
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choose to, obviously until the applications close, and (of course) just to note
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the date is there.
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The applications close on 12 April.
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So Mary will be popping the links to this in the chat - to
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link tos to the GoodGrants form).
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If anything doesn't make sense, the second source is that email address there,
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which is the socialimpactgrants@uts.edu.au.
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That email will come straight to me and I'm happy to answer any and all
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queries and again we have a blank application form for you as well to look
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through prior to your application as well.
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OK.
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So the other thing to run through, of course, if you are successful, we
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require all successful grant recipients to attend an evaluation workshop that
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will be in May.
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The current dates are 20 or 23rd, but of course we will work with the
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successful people to make sure that those dates work for everyone.
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The next stage as part of the project is me checking in with you.
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It sayses there interim progress report.
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It's not an actual report.
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Basically I just check in in October to see how the project is going.
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We chat through any difficulties that have come up and we just use it as a
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milestone to see how the project is going, see if there any needs to be any
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pivots or any issues that need to get solved before December, and then we
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expect your final reporting template by February of 2025. We give you the
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template.
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It is not too onerous.
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It's just to assess the outcomes are achieved through the grant.
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And after that report is submitted to us, we work with you with a comms
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specialist to develop a case study to show all the work you have done, similar
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to the ones we linked to you before.
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So as a final thing really just to run you through the key
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dates and events that are coming up as part of the grants, so as part of the
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grants offerings, we're offering two grant writing work shops I's a two-part
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webinar series).
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The first is on project and program designs.
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So this is a workshop really for those who want to formulate their ideas, who
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maybe have an idea, maybe have a program, but really want to - are still in
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that iterative phase and really want some help on how to design their project.
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And the second one is how to really prepare and write persuasive applications.
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So you can come to one or you can come to both.
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UTS staff members are able to access the workshops for free.
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code is being popped in the chat now.
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And you can register for those events via Humanatix.
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It's a two-part series.
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You can come to one or both.
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One is about really formulating your project ideas and then the second is
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about how to really write those really persuasive convincing applications.
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So those are the two webinar series we're offering as part of grant writings
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and they're on 20 February the first one and 5 March is the second.
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The other thing we're doing is holding two networking events
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for UTS and the community to kind of network and meet each other.
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Some of the feedback we had from last year is that some people and some
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researchers find doing community-engaged work really easy.
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They have those established relationships.
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Think really make an effort to get out there (they) or they have longstanding
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practice in research that means they have those relationships.
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For other people it's more of a newer change.
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We really want to encourage those relationships though.
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So we basically are creating a place for people to come together.
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So one will be face to face, the other will be online, to kind of come, for
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those in person have a cup of tea, have some lunch and really meet people.
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So it will be a chance for academics to meet community and community to -
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sorry, UTS staff, I should say.
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And it will be a really low key event.
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There will be community members there looking for certain people to partner on
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and hoechfully UTS staff members or prospective projects looking to be formed together.
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So again the first face to face event is on 11 March.
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It is here at Ucampus building 1, and the next day is the online one).
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You register for one of those sessions via human tax.
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Then on 12 April the applications will close.
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On 10 May we will notify all applicants, both successful and unsuccessful.
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20 or 23 May will be that one-day evaluation workshop for anyone who is
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successful.
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Mid-October is when I will check in with you to see how the project is going.
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8 December is when all the grant budget that we give you has to be spent, and
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then 28 February is when we ask foryour final reports next year.
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So any questions? How long have we got? What's the time?
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We have about 10 minutes if anyone wanted to either pop some questions in the
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chat or come off mute and shoot any questions at
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.
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MARY: the sample application I checked that one, it's for the Local
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Community Voice Grant.
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Is it the same template for the Research & Practice Grant as well (Bianca)
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ANUSHA MILLER: Yes, I believe it's the same.
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The only run is when you complete the form online), there will be different
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drop downs for the Local Community Voice Grant and they don't capture that in PDF.
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And save my project is an event) so the application asks which
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category does the application best fit in, whether it's research, practice or
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both.
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So which one I should be thinking of?
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ANUSHA MILLER: I would consider an event more of a practice but of
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course if there's a research element and you know that, you would click both.
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It's up to you.
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Personally I would consider it practice but if you're unsure, you can choose
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both and I am sure your actual application would explain it further.
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Sure. Thank you so much.
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ANUSHA MILLER: No worries
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).
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Do we have any other questions?
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I'll just check the Q&A.
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Either people are very shoor or I explained everyone very well.
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The only other thing I would say is that the email from the email address up
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there comes straight to me.
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I obviously aim to answer all queries as quick as possible and I really am
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available to chat through things.
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Obviously we have a panel separate to me who assesses all the applications so
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there's no kind of conflict of interest there.
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I'm really happy to talk through any questions you have or things you just
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want to touch by me: is my project something that would be considered?
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Is there something I can do to meet that kroi tearya better?
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I'm really happy to answer any and all of those
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we don't have any other questions, I might give people their 10 minutes - eight
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minutes back now in the day
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. It doesn't look like we do. OK.
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Well, I might end up there.
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Thanks, everyone, for attending this webinar.
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I hope it was helpful in some way.
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Like I said, that email addresses is there for any other questions or queries
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you may have.
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The UTS website as well is really a massive source of information.
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There's a lot of information there.
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Everything I have covered and even more.
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And refer to that or refer to the email.
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If you do have any other questions).
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Tell your colleagues or community members you know about the grant, share it on.
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We would really love to have as many applications as possible as well.
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So thank you all for your attendance today and I hope that was really helpful.
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Thank you. Thanks, Bye, everyone.
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one question is where will the power point slides be?
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And yes, we will send them after the event
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Networking sessions
To apply for a Social Impact Grant – Community-engaged research and practice, UTS staff and students must work in collaboration with a community partner, and vice-versa. To help facilitate these relationships, we will be running two grant networking sessions.
Face-to-face event: Monday 11 March, 12pm–1.30pm. Register via Humanitix.
Online event: Tuesday 12 March, 5pm–6.30pm. Register via Humanitix.
You can also find a partner by posting information about your proposed project on our Partner Noticeboard.