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Welcoming Universities Summit
October 22 @ 9:30 am - 4:30 pm
$90
Welcoming Universities is very excited to present the first Welcoming Universities Summit in October 2024 at UTS Ultimo Campus. This special event is a chance to bring together representatives from Welcoming Universities member institutions across the country, as well as connections from other universities and higher education providers, and other individuals and organisations which intersect with this space.
The theme for this year’s summit is: From Small Beginnings – building welcoming in Australian universities.
The keynote speaker for the inaugural event is Associate Professor Kathomi Gatwiri and the day will continue with an insightful panel discussion about the welcoming and inclusion work happening on the ground within Australian universities, and in the afternoon the group will come together for round table discussions and workshop sessions exploring different approaches and ideas to build welcoming, inclusion and belonging within Australian universities.
We will have delicious catering from Plate It Forward, and lots of opportunities for conversation and the creation of connections throughout the day.
Places are strictly limited (50 people maximum), for this curated, intimate summit.
Summit Details
Tuesday 22 October, 2024, 9:30am til 4:30pm
UTS Tower, Building 1, Level 22, Room 10 15 Broadway, Ultimo NSW 2007.
Conference theme: From Small Beginnings – building welcoming in Australian universities.
Keynote Address: Associate Professor Kathomi Gatwiri
Panel Discussion: Actively Welcoming: projects, programs and initiatives to create belonging.
Presentation: ‘International Students Experience Studying at Australian Universities’ – brief outline of findings by Olga Cherniak and Cate Gilpin; followed by launch of Welcoming Universities International Student Support Resource Kit.
Roundtable Discussions: Topics to be confirmed.
Associate Professor Kathomi Gatwiri is an ARC DECRA Fellow at the Centre for Children & Young People (CCYP), in the Faculty of Health at Southern Cross University. She is the president of the peak body Australian Women & Gender studies Association (AWGSA) and a practising psychotherapist. Kathomi is one of Australia’s leading Afro-diasporic scholars whose award-winning interdisciplinary research investigates the intersecting topics of racial trauma, belonging, blackness, and migranthood.
She has published over 100 traditional and non-traditional research outputs, including the books African Womanhood and Incontinent Bodies and Afrodiasporic identities in Australia. As a community leader, she is the Founder and Director of Healing Together, a service that provides accessible, culturally sensitive therapeutic support for people impacted by racial trauma.