| 1.
'Melbourne University Biomedicine Students' Orchestra (MUBSO) | James Choi | The Melbourne University
Biomedicine Students’ Orchestra (MUBSO) is a club for students from all
backgrounds and faculties of the University of Melbourne, united by a love of
music and passion for charity. The core of our orchestra revolves around
playing music of a high standard, which provides a fulfilling creative outlet
for both the players and the community. We have a strong community focus
through our charity concerts and volunteering events. MUBSO has held five
major concerts since its inception, and plans to hold two more concerts, a
community outreach camp, and various community music enrichment programs in
this project. | $10,000.00 |
| 2. UMSU
International Night Market | Aviya Bavati | Night Market is an annual event
which aims to bring about cross-cultural exchange through food, games and
performances. Based on historical attendance we are expecting attendance this
year be between 9,000 and 10,000. Night Market is probably the largest
student run and led event in Australia. Approximately 30 international
student clubs/groups will get together with UMSU International to sell a
mouth-watering variety of ethnic food and to showcase their cultures through
games, market goods, performances and costumes. | $17,000.00 |
| 3.
Supporting career planning outcomes for remotely-located Indigenous graduates
of the Specialist Certificate in Cross-Cultural Conservation and Heritage | Professor Robyn Sloggett | This project supports capacity
building and mentorship for Indigenous graduates of the inaugural Specialist
Certificate in Cross-Cultural Conservation and Heritage, which in 2018
comprised nine artworkers working in remote Aboriginal art centres. Designed
as a post-graduate knowledge exchange program for students with senior
cultural and community knowledge holders, the Certificate draws on the
Grimwade Centre’s extensive industry and community partnerships to enable
graduates to preserve important cultural material. As part of the assessment
tasks students mapped their employment and career ambitions. This project
will provide six months of administration and mentoring to support students
in the realisation of these ambitions. | $19,892.50 |
| 4.
Indigenous Graduate Symposium | Josh Cubillo | A symposium will be organised to
provide an opportunity for Indigenous graduate students to present their
current research to their peers in a culturally safe environment. The event
will also be opened to Indigenous undergraduate students to observe and have
examples of Indigenous research students who have progressed their academic
journeys. | $10,000.00 |
| 5.
Southbank Creative Arts Graduate Research Publication | Jonathan Graffam | This project proposes the
creation and launch of a printed and electronic journal featuring academic
contributions from current graduate research students across the Faculty of
Fine Arts and Music. The aim is to highlight creative arts practice-research taking
place at Southbank campus and to formalise this in a published form. The
project invites graduate researchers from across each of the discrete schools
within the Victorian College of the Arts (VCA) and the Melbourne
Conservatorium of Music (MCM) to engage in cross-disciplinary collaborations.
The funding application is inclusive of 2 seminars for graduate researchers
and a launch event for the publication. | $16,500.00 |
| 6.
Increasing Robogals Melbourne's presence | Hannah Eichenbaum | Robogals runs programming and
robotics workshops at schools & public libraries. We want to be able to
reimburse our volunteers who otherwise could not attend our workshops due to
the high cost of travel. This funding will cover the cost of the Uber or Taxi
from and back to the university. The workshops are run by University of
Melbourne students who volunteer their time. The travel and time costs
associated with getting to these workshops can be costly as we aim to go to
schools further out of the city to expand our presence and assist schools
with limited resources. | $6,854.00 |
| 7.
Indigenous Art and University Space | Benjamin Francis Lew | This project will bring the
beauty of non-Western arts into public university space. In so doing it will
engage students of diverse cultural backgrounds with alternative, interesting
and important narratives arising from cultural material. Creating a series of
new, innovative exhibits utilising the Leonhard Adam collection, held at the
University of Melbourne, the project plays the dual function of engaging
students in new, creative modes of display, and creating links between the
University and indigenous cultures. | $10,000.00 |
| 8.
Access & Inclusion @ Union House Theatre | Petra Kalive | UHT upholds the highest
principles of access and inclusion, built on hard work undertaken to date on
UHT’s Disability Action Plan. Regular consultation with student theatre
groups reveals a passionate community keen to deliver best practice models of
access and inclusion across student theatre. Union House Theatre is dedicated
to improving the culture around access and inclusion within Arts &
Culture at UMSU. They have made significant strides in recent years. This application requests funds so UHT can
continue to improve the accessibility offering to students interested in
theatre and Student Theatre Groups presenting work to diverse communities
with additional needs. | $6,000.00 |
| 9.
Visualise Your Thesis competition | Jennifer Warburton | Visualise Your Thesis (VYT) is
an exciting competition that challenges graduate research students from all
disciplines, of all technical abilities, at any stage of their candidature,
to present their research projects in a 60-second, eye-catching, audio-visual
digital display. By creating a "visual elevator pitch" students
develop crucial engagement and employability skills including effective
communication, digital literacy, and visual storytelling. The grant funds
will be used for the VYT Competition prize pool, workshops and competition
marketing. Funds will also be used for community-building through catered
workshops and a VYT Awards showcase event, which is open to all. | $2,500.00 |
| 10.
Communal vegetable garden at the Werribee Campus College (Kendall Hall),
"The Inaugural Vettie Patch" | Maya Zamir | This application is for the
construction of a communal vegetable garden at Kendall Hall. This would be a
community project with many benefits beyond providing residents with
home-grown vegetables and herbs. The plan would be to place two raised garden
beds (to avoid rabbits eating the vegetables) near the outer dining area of
Kendall Hall. | $1,889.00 |
| 11.
CHAT FEST | Sara Nelson | Chat Fest is a regular informal
lunchtime session for International MDHS students with English as a second
language (ESL). Specifically it will assist students to 1) practice their
English language skills in a relaxed atmosphere, 2) become more familiar with
the Australian culture of communication, learning and assessment 3) rehearse
culturally appropriate ways of communicating with their educators in both
campus and work integrated learning (WIL) settings, and 4) build confidence
and competence in communicating with patients/clients and other health
professionals. | $10,848.76 |
| 12.
Let's Torque Semi-Finals | Ben Chen | Let’s Torque is a student run
science public speaking competition aimed to encourage students to develop
and practice their public speaking and communication skills. Speeches are
delivered on a STEM idea with impact that students find interesting. Although
the competition has a range of events, we hold our annual semi-finals (2
individual events) at Melbourne University, where students deliver their
presentations to our judges and the audience. Funding to be spent on:
catering, teaching material, marketing material and venue hire for the
semi-finals. | $1,800.00 |
| 13.
Built Industry Group | Raj Gandhi | Built Industry Group (BIG) is a
student-run organisation based in the University of Melbourne which connects
students with industry through practice-based learning, network development
and multi-disciplinary engagement. We cater to 1340 members from Architecture,
Construction, Property and Planning. Through events such as - Open Days
Series, student-led competitions, Graduate Networking Nights and Lunch with
young professionals. Offering
opportunities for practice-based development, industry insights,
interpersonal skill development and multi-disciplinary engagement.
Leadership, management and communication opportunities are also presented to
the committee who organise these student experiences. We are seeking a SSAF
Grant to support the running of this upcoming year's activity pipeline. | $10,555.68 |
| 14.
The University of Melbourne Arts Journal | Matthew Newman | The University of Melbourne Arts
Journal is a student-run journal dedicated to publishing the work of students
in the Bachelor of Arts program. The SSAF Grant will be used to cover the
cost of design, contributions, publishing, printing, and events. The University
of Melbourne previously lacked a dedicated extra-curricular platform for
undergraduate students to publish academic work. By addressing this service
gap, the project allows students to engage their academic interests while
exposing them to publishing processes. In turn, by expanding these
opportunities the journal helps satisfy the Student Experience and University
Strategy Goals laid out by the SSAF Grant. | $16,500.00 |
| 15.
Enactus, The University of Melbourne | Tristan Lim | Enactus, The University of
Melbourne, is a student-run social enterprise organisation working to utilise
entrepreneurial action to tackle current social issues and create meaningful
outcomes. Funding will be split into four major domains: flights to facilitate competition at the
Enactus National Championships in Sydney, internal and external student
engagement events within the university community, operational expenses, and
most importantly, our varied social enterprise projects which tackle a number
of issues facing our society. | $10,000.00 |
| 16.
UMMSS Wellness Program | Sally Chen | Inspired by a similar program at
Vanderbilt Medical School, UMMSS (University of Melbourne Medical Students’
Society) launched its inaugural Clinical School Cup in 2018 with the vision
of improving medical student wellbeing. In the second year of its implementation,
our vision is to build upon the extremely successful program by including
more wellbeing events and increasing accessibility to our rural members
distributed across multiple sites in Victoria. We believe "when doctors
are able to stay healthy and happy, that means patients get physicians who
are more compassionate and selfless." - Dr Rodgers (Associate Dean at
Vanderbilt) to NY Times. | $5,000.00 |
| 17.
PLAY IT UP - Your Brain on Play | Ben Deery | Research suggests tertiary
students are increasingly experiencing disengagement with studies and campus
experience, especially “first in family’ students, those from lower SES and
diverse backgrounds, mature-age students, those with high stress and mental
health difficulties, and overseas/international students. This project will
use SSAF Grant funds to workshop, design, and fabricate (on-site at MSDs
FabLab) several pop-up “playscapes” around campus co-identified with the
NSPP. These playful activations using ‘giant boardgames’ are a novel direct
response to student feedback of the need for fun, non-academic experiences,
and a “permission to play” on campus, which allow positive connection and
social interaction with peers. | $20,000.00 |
| 18.
Women's World Cup Week | Karoline Rivero-Bernacki | Last year, Melbourne University
Soccer Club (MUSC) used SSAF funding to screen the men’s soccer World Cup and
brought approximately 2000 students together to enjoy the world game in a
social atmosphere. This year, we would like to host a series of events during
the Women's World Cup designed to increase student engagement and student
participation in women’s soccer. We hope that these events can help connect
students within the university and offer more female students the chance to
play soccer and engage in regular physical activity. | $7,500.00 |
| 19.
Australasian Womens Debating Competition | Rebecca Waldron | The Australasian Women Debating
Competition aims to develop women in debating, including all that identify as
non-cis males. This equips women with the crucial skills of debating and
allows them to gain experience and expertise in debating. Crucially, these
are transferable skills such as public speaking, critical thinking, teamwork
and analysis skills that are imperative within an employment context. The
fundamental purpose of the Australasian Women Debating Competition is for
women, as a marginalised community and underdeveloped entity to be able to
practice and better their debating skills, allowing the to be more
competitive within debating as a whole. | $5,000.00 |
| | | Total | $187,839.94 |
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