Completed Projects!
Cradle Coast Student Voice Project
To ensure Cradle Coast students voices are heard and their issues addressed, to be continued in 2023.
Project Lead: Cradle Coast President A. Lamont
Status: COMPLETE (to recommence)
Parliamentary Inquiry into the University of Tasmania
Made submissions on behalf of UTAS Students and gave verbal evidence to the panel.
Project Lead: Former TUSA President
Status: COMPLETE
2021 Student Voice Program
A detailed series of research and presentations led by UTAS students with TUSA and UTAS academics.
Project Lead: Former State Council
Status: COMPLETE
Clubs & Societies Days
With over 3000 students attending across Tasmania’s three campuses, C&S Days were a resounding success.
Project Lead: All Campus Presidents
Status: COMPLETED FOR 2023
SHAG Week
Create a week of amazing events centered around the ideas of sexual health, positivity, and inclusivity.
Project Lead: Former State Council
Status: COMPLETE
Ongoing Projects!
Addressing Food Insecurity
Work to ensure all university students have sustainable access to nutritious food.
Project Lead: President L McLaren
Status: IN PROGRESS
Equitable SSAF Campus Spending Research
Investigating how to best ensure that students receive equitable access to those events, services, and programs paid for by SSAF.
Project Lead: President L McLaren
Status: IN PROGRESS
Rozelle Paramedicine First Aid/CPR Training Day
To provide accessible, affordable training on campus to students to ensure they are able to meet placement requirements.
Project Lead: Rozelle President L Castelletti
Status: IN PROGRESS
Student Access to Medical Services
Develop a plan so that all students have access to bulk-billing medical services. Cradle Coast students delivered access to GPs.
Project Lead: President L McLaren
Status: IN PROGRESS
All Gender Bathrooms
Ensure we have a clear map of current all-gender bathrooms across our UTAS campuses and work to ensure that we have bathrooms in each location that are accessible and safe for our trans, NB, and gender non-conforming student and staff populations.
Project Lead: Equity President T Hoare
Status: IN PROGRESS
Rozelle Indigenous Art Installation
Working with UTAS to have an indigenous art installation on the Rozelle campus.
Project Lead: Rozelle President L Castelletti
Status: IN CONSTRUCTION
Northern Campus Safety Concerns
Working with UTAS to address student safety concerns raised by Northern students.
Project Lead: Northern President R Stanaway
Status: IN PROGRESS
Hobart Apartments Student Study Space
Working with UTAS to co-design with students a student space in the Hobart Apartments Foyer that is functional and students will want to use.
Project Lead: Southern President S Maddock
Status: IN CONSTRUCTION
Equity Poster Campaign
Develop and distribute a poster to communicate the equity portfolio, the issues being tackled, and who to contact for support.
Project Lead: Equity President T Hoare
Status: IN PROGRESS
Updating TUSA Equity Website
Giving the TUSA Equity page a well-needed refresh and ensuring it is usable and useful for students.
Project Lead: Equity President T Hoare
Status: IN PROGRESS
Increased On-Campus & On Country Learning
Lobbying the university to increase on-campus hours for on-campus units and further increase the amount of learning done on campus.
Project Lead: Undergraduate President Z Sabapathy
Status: IN PROGRESS
Rozelle Student Voice Project
Ensure that Rozelle student’s voices are heard and their concerns are addressed.
Project Lead: Rozelle President L Castelletti
Status: IN PROGRESS
Accessible Sport
Improve accessibility to sports at the university for a diverse range of needs experienced by students with disabilities through collaboration with UniSports and campaigning at all levels of the university.
Project Lead: Equity President T Hoare
Status: IN PROGRESS
Upcoming Projects!
Authentic First Nations Engagement
Hold UTAS accountable for ensuring that First Nations peoples are actively consulted at UTAS consistently and regularly and that those consultations result in real change whenever done.
Project Lead: Equity President T Hoare
Status: INITIAL STAGES
TUSA Pride 2023
Through collaboration with key university contacts, develop an event calendar for Pride month!
Project Lead: Equity President T Hoare
Status: INITIAL STAGES
Student Access to Affordable Housing
Working to ensure that students have access to affordable & secure housing.
Project Lead: President L McLaren
Status: INITIAL STAGES
Cradle Coast Community Garden
Working with UTAS to provide Cradle Coast students with access to a community garden.
Project Lead: Cradle Coast President A Lamont
Status: INITIAL STAGES
Pride in Sport
Create a safe space for queer people to engage in sports at the university through collaboration and campaigning.
Project Lead: Equity President T Hoare
Status: INITIAL STAGES
Standardised HDR Orientation
Ensure that all commencing HDR students receive fair and reasonable orientation.
Project Lead: Postgraduate President N Naz
Status: INITIAL STAGES
Rozelle Communications Group
Creating a group for Rozelle students to communicate with one another and for key events and programs to be promoted.
Project Lead: Rozelle President L Castelletti
Status: INITIAL STAGES
Continuous Projects!
Students as Partners
Working to increase the amount of student representation in decision-making processes throughout the university.
Project Lead: President L McLaren
Status: CONTINUOUS
Student Representation on University Committees
State Council holds many positions across a range of University committees, with the aim of ensuring students are always at the forefront of decision-making.
Project Lead: State Council
Status: CONTINOUS
TUSA Equity Committee
The representatives of the LGBTQIA+ community, women, international students, students with disabilities, and indigenous students who meet once a month and discuss issues facing students from minority backgrounds
Project Lead: Equity President T Hoare
Status: CONTINOUS
Shut Up & Write Sessions
Sessions ran for HDR students to come along and focus on their studies in a quiet space with their peers.
Project Lead: Postgraduate President N Naz
Status: CONTINUOUS
Vent Tents
Providing opportunities for students to provide their feedback and a space where they feel safe to vent their true thoughts and feelings
Project Lead: State Council
Status: CONTINUOUS
Get Soup’d
Providing students with access to a free meal, ability to network and raise concerns, and to meet new people.
Project Lead: Southern President S Maddock
Status: CONTINUOUS
Clubs & Societies Council
A quarterly regional meeting scheduled for TUSA to facilitate communication with C&S executives and provide a networking opportunity among C&S personnel.
Project Lead: All Campus Presidents
Status: CONTINUOUS
College Academic C&S Committees
College-level quarterly meetings are held by the Education Presidents for students to raise issues within their unit, course, school, and college.
Project Lead: Education Presidents
Status: CONTINUOUS
Addressing Dead-Naming
Promote the work of the NUS in this space at the university level to ensure that transition supports at UTAS are modern, quick, and responsive to trans and non-binary students and staff.