UNSW's Education Festival 2025

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UNSW’s Education Festival returned for its fifth year, bringing together our vibrant Learning and Teaching community to inspire, learn from each other and grow as educators.  

This year, we focused on embedding UNSW's Societal Impact Framework into our curricula, exploring how education can help our students develop the knowledge, skills and attitudes to make the world a better place. 

With short talks, posters, interactive workshops and more, the festival was a catalyst for action, designed to inspire and shape our next steps in curricular redesigns. 

Award winners

Congratulations to this year's award-winning UNSW educators, announced at the Edu Fest Finale:

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Edu Fest 2025 program

Wednesday-Thursday program

View the detailed program overview with presenters and timings:

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Satellite Events: Tue 25 November

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Engineering Education Festival
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Engineering Education Festival - Culture and Curriculum

9am - 3pm in John Niland Scientia Building

The UNSW Engineering Education Festival brought together educators, professional staff, and students for a day of shared ideas, conversation, and inspiration. This year’s theme, Culture and Curriculum, explored how culture in all its forms shapes and enlivens the way we teach and learn. The program featured thought-provoking talks, interactive workshops, a student showcase, and opportunities to connect with colleagues across our Faculty and beyond.

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Decolonising Curricula and Building Cultural Intelligence

3.30pm - 5pm in Law Theatre G02

Part of the UNSW Legal Education Research Conference 'The Crowded Curriculum' that ran 24–25 November.

3 – 3.30pm              AFTERNOON TEA | Level 1 Lounge, Law & Justice Building
3.30 – 5pm              PARALLEL SESSIONS #6 | ⭐  UNSW EDUCATION FESTIVAL ⭐

 

Decolonising Curricula and Building Cultural Intelligence | Law G02

‘Holding Space for Aboriginal Knowledges: In Conversation with Aboriginal Students’

Lilliana Jarrett and Candice Philliponi with Ingrid Matthews (UNSW)

‘Centring First Nations Knowings in the Literature Review: A Focus on Decolonising Law Curriculum’

Alison Owens (ACU), May Fong Cheong (UNSW), Jessica Russ-Smith (ACU)

‘Reimagining Problem-Solving: Supporting student cultural intelligence through authentic, creative assessment’

Sandy Noakes and Nicole Graham (USyd)

⭐ UNSW Education Festival ⭐

Recordings

Did you miss any sessions, or would you like to revisit them? The recordings are now available.

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