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This week is National Student Volunteer Week, a time to honour and celebrate the incredible contributions student volunteers make to communities across Australia. If you’d like to make an impact through volunteering, explore opportunities on the UniSA volunteering page, where you’ll find roles with UniSA and other organisations nationwide. While you’re making a difference, be sure to join the exciting events happening throughout August. |
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Share your snaps in the Whyalla Photography Competition |
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Enhance your learning with Peer Assisted Study Sessions |
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Student Mental Health Framework – we are getting close! |
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Make a difference with the SDG Virtual Study Tour |
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Introducing the newly revamped UniSA+ Award! |
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Get job-ready at Whyalla Careers Week |
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Rate your volunteering experience and win $100 |
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Become UniSA’s Student Volunteer of the Year and win $1000 |
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Uni life word search: Winners |
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Share your snaps in the Whyalla Photography Competition
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Now’s the time to showcase your best photographs in Whyalla’s Photography Competition! Open to all students based at Whyalla campus, this contest invites you to capture stunning visuals, with six categories to choose from:
• Pets
• Animals
• Sunrise or sunset
• Black and white
• Nature and landscape
• UniSA Whyalla campus
Submit your entries to Simone Purdie by Monday 26 August. One winner will be selected from each category and all six winners will walk away with a $100 prize. Get snapping and enter today! |
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Enhance your learning with Peer Assisted Study Sessions
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Join our Peer Assisted Study Sessions (PASS) and take on SP5 with confidence!
Led by your fellow students who have excelled in the very same courses you're taking, PASS is designed to help you better understand your course content. These relaxed and informal sessions offer the ideal environment for valuable support from students who understand what you are going through. PASS is available across all metro campuses and online.
Check the full schedule to find sessions that cover your courses, and we’ll see you there! |
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Student Mental Health Framework – we are getting close!
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Your mental wellbeing is one of UniSA’s top priorities. That is why we’re developing the UniSA Student Mental Health Framework; a University-wide project to shape a healthier and more positive student mental wellbeing experience.
When we asked you to share your mental health preferences back in March, many of you indicated you wouldn't use support services due to being self-reliant or having privacy concerns. This highlights the importance of positive mental wellbeing education and creating a stigma-free environment so you can seek help safely.
Through this project, we will guide staff on how to prioritise student mental wellbeing and connect you with resources to support your mental wellbeing. Here are some of our key milestones:
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More than 100 staff, students and external partners have contributed to this project.
• More than 120 initiatives supporting student mental wellbeing have been identified across the University.
• The framework is nearly complete and the ‘Wellbeing at UniSA’ website is being updated as a one-stop-shop for all things student wellbeing.
We're excited about the positive impact this project will create. Let's make mental wellbeing a priority together! |
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FOR YOUR PROFESSIONAL AND PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT |
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Make a difference with the SDG Virtual Study Tour
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UniSA’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) Virtual Study Tour is back in 2024! This hands-on, immersive experience will challenge you and inspire you to tackle global issues head-on.
You'll work in a multi-disciplinary team on real industry projects. Leveraging your unique skills, you'll tackle global challenges like poverty, inequality, climate change, environmental degradation, peace, and justice through an SDG Start-Up project.
The study tour includes a range of virtual workshops and team experiences over a six-week period, from 16 September to 23 October 2024. You can receive 4.5 units credit for participating (pending Program Director approval), with fully-funded places available for eligible students (worth $1700) for a limited time only.
Don't delay as applications close on 8 August 2024. |
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Introducing the newly revamped UniSA+ Award!
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Want to be rewarded for your efforts outside of study? Or maybe you’d like to improve your leadership capabilities and build new skills?
Tackle the prestigious UniSA+ Award and be recognised for your excellent co-curricular efforts in self-development, volunteering and leadership development. You can tackle as many challenges as you like at your own pace, with recognition along the way and a formal UniSA+ Award signed by the Vice Chancellor when you’ve completed all three.
With a fresh new UniSA+ interface and structure, there’s no better time to get started. Begin your journey of growth today!
If you’re completing the previous UniSA+ and/or ASPIRE Award, you may complete them this year or request to
transfer your activities to the new system. The ASPIRE Award will no longer be offered from 2025 onwards, and instead these offerings will be included as part of the UniSA+ Award. |
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Get job-ready at Whyalla Careers Week
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UniSA Career Services is returning to Whyalla on 13 and 14 August! Join us for engaging face-to-face workshops and strengthen your job application skills. These sessions are open to all students:
• How to write a winning resume and cover letter
• How to succeed at interviews
If you’d like tailored support with your career planning, this is the perfect time to book a 1:1 appointment
with our knowledgeable career adviser Donna Klocke. Donna can check your resume/cover letter, support you to build a career plan, or provide advice on finding work, interviews, placements and more. |
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Rate your volunteering experience and win $100
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Have you done any volunteering in the last 12 months? Fill in this quick Volunteering Experience Survey and help us to improve the UniSA student volunteering experience.
What motivated you to volunteer? How did you find your volunteer positions? Did the experience meet your expectations? Let us know in the survey and you’ll automatically go in the draw to win a $100 voucher.
The survey closes at 11:00pm ACST on Sunday 25 August and the winner of the voucher draw will be notified by email on 26 August. We look forward to reading your valuable feedback! |
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Become UniSA’s Student Volunteer of the Year and win $1000
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Have you made a significant contribution to the wider community or campus life through volunteering? You could be UniSA’s Student Volunteer of the Year!
This award recognises outstanding volunteer service with the winner receiving a $1000 voucher, certificate, profile on UniSA’s social media and more. Submit your application or have someone else nominate you before 5:00pm ACST on Monday 16 September. Finalists will be celebrated at the Student Recognition Gala on Tuesday 22 October, where the winner will be announced.
Open to all UniSA undergraduate and postgraduate (coursework) students. Apply today and get the recognition you deserve for all your hard work! |
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Uni life word search: Winners |
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Thank you to everyone who completed the word search in our last issue, and a special shout-out to Jake Childs, Tracy Henwood, Isabella Sauchelli, Darawatey Srun and Brendon Klimeck for winning the prize draw. There’ll be a new puzzle heading your way in the next edition! |
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The University of South Australia respectfully
acknowledges the Kaurna, Boandik and Barngarla First Nations Peoples and their Elders past and present, who are the First Nations’ traditional owners of the lands that are now home to the UniSA campuses in Adelaide, Mount Gambier and Whyalla. |
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