Student experience

Helping students feel welcomed and valued also helps them learn. Achieving a welcoming classroom is no accident, yet it can be difficult to find guidance for how to do it.

Students often feel at a loss when entering academia when they realise that they need to research and write according to a whole new set of rules.

By multiple authors across UNSW Faculties and Divisions

In an age of increasing marketisation, automation and depersonalisation, Pedagogy of Kindness re-centres the human in higher education.

There's more to uni than studying. Extra-curricular activities such as immersion in arts & culture can have wide-ranging impacts. See how students from a range of faculties benefited from an art-making workshop by Abdullah M. I.

The Inaugural UNSW Peer Learning Festival provided an energising and collaborative environment for students and staff to celebrate all things peer support at UNSW. 

Digital Annotation with Lectern Tracking Camera is now available in Centrally Allocated Teaching Spaces (CATS).

Students have the opportunity to receive hands-on work experience in genuine business issues across the globe, thanks to UNSW Employability's CDEV3300 Global Practice of Work.

One of our fantastic academics, Mira Kim, interviews one of her students, who took Mira's PELE course and realised that it gave her much more than an academic learning.  

UNSW has created new flexible spaces for study and learning and to support to our student community.

By Jacky Cranney, Nalini Pather, Leesa Sidhu, Gary Velan; SEA Fellows

Scientia Education Academy Fellows discuss how rigorous psychological science of wellbeing translates into curricular design and delivery.

With many more international students expected to return to campus in 2023, services and support is available to assist in their return to campus, or to kick start their journey.

UNSW students have found a fun and supportive community of learners and teachers at myEnglish Week. Registrations are now open for Term 1 2023!

'My First Day: An Empathy Project' is a collaborative initiative that puts that nerve-racking first day into perspective.

By Jacky Cranney, Nalini Pather, Leesa Sidhu, Gary Velan; SEA Fellows

How can our students engage with media and immersive technologies projects at UNSW? Graham Hannah provides options and examples.

A tribute to Sonia Maddock for her 20 years as Director of UNSW’s Choral program - a place of expression and creativity, and a space of social engagement and belonging. 

By Sophie Kearns, Team Lead, Student Support.

Sophie shares her deliberations about the beauty and importance of caring for our students.