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Latest News

We are pleased to announce that the 2019 BHERT Awards will be presented at the Engagement Australia 2019 Conference on 29 and 30 August. This follows the news last week...

July 17, 2019

The Sunshine Coast Mind and Neuroscience Thompson Institute was established in the community in 2018 by USC, as a hub for world-class mental health research, teaching and clinical services.

July 1, 2019

The Global Forum on Academic Freedom, Institutional Autonomy, and the Future of Democracy was held at Council of Europe headquarters in Strasbourg on 20 – 21 June 2019 and co-organized by the Council of Europe; the International Consortium for Higher Education, Civic Responsibility and Democracy; the Organization of American States; the Magna Charta Observatory; and the International Association of Universities.

June 28, 2019

In this interview for Transform, Richard Teare, co-founder and President of the Global University for Lifelong Learning talks about GULL’s non-profit network movement that aims to facilitate self-help and its role in a research project that aims to develop an inclusive framework for self-directed lifelong learning led by a group of South African public universities.

June 11, 2019

There exists a long and renowned history of ‘civic universities’ in the Anglosphere and they are often compared and contrasted with the ‘ancient’ universities, sometimes seen as the repositories of tradition with their rituals, old buildings, formal codes of dress and behaviour. These are unique cultures, very different from modern corporations, let alone globalised digital businesses.

June 11, 2019

UTS SOUL Award  – a co-curricular, student community leadership program based at UTS Shopfront at the Centre for Social Justice and Inclusion – aims to build skills to enable UTS...

May 6, 2019

Our Programs

View our range of online resources, live events and seminars and industry updates here.  Some of these items are available only to member institutions.  If you need a login, please register here.  If you would like to become a member visit our member page.

Leading the Engagement Agenda

Engagement Australia champions the unique role universities have with society to address contemporary global challenges and trends through teaching, learning, research and partnerships. We do this by:

Providing and inspiring leadership;
Developing capacity and future leaders;
Enabling peer-learning;
Providing practical tools and tips; and
Providing a platform for collaboration and knowledge creation.

Engagement Australia supports the wider contextual standard definition of community engagement, previously developed by the US-based Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, which has succeeded in codifying the core characteristics and principles of community engagement.  It defines Community engagement as a method of teaching, learning and research that describes interactions between universities and their communities (business, industry, govt, NGOs, and other groups) for the mutually beneficial exchange of knowledge and resources in a context of partnership and reciprocity.

INNOVATIVE

SUPPORTIVE

STRATEGIC

COLLABORATIVE

“The hallmark of engagement is the development of partnerships that ensure a mutually beneficial exchange of knowledge between the University and the community.” Holland and Ramalay (2008:33).

Our Members

  • LaTrobe Uni