Celebrate Wear it Purple Day
Wear it Purple Day is Friday 30 August! We encourage you to get involved and show your support for our LGBTIQA+ community.
Love STEM? Boost your CV as a mentor to high school students in T1 2025
We're recruiting volunteer In2science mentors for Trimester 1 2025. You'll inspire high school students and it's also a great way to increase your employability!
Join our free Forest Therapy session and you could win a $100 e-voucher!
Forest Therapy involves mindful immersion in nature, and has been shown to reduce stress and improve mood. All current Deakin students are invited to take part in a free session at Waurn Ponds!
Contact Safer Community if you ever feel unsafe
Safer Community can provide confidential support if you ever experience or witness problem behaviour at home or at uni, including sexual harm and family violence.
Take our short online module so you know what healthy relationships look like
Learn how to be a good partner, friend and member of our community by completing this quick online module.
If you have a condition that impacts your studies, help is available
A Deakin Disability Liaison Officer explains what the Disability Resource Centre is all about and whether you may be eligible for support.
Indigenous students – we invite you to share your art, culture and stories for a chance to win
Submit a deadly artwork that shares a story of your mob, Country or personal learning journey. We'll award five artists $200 each and there's also a $2000 commission on offer too.
This NAIDOC Week, how will you help ‘keep the fire burning’ for First Nations peoples?
This NAIDOC Week, see what's happening at Deakin and in the community, plus share how you will show your support for First Nations people for your chance to win a prize!
Help us keep Deakin a safe, inclusive and respectful environment by following these values
We want Deakin to be a great place to study, work and spend time. But it takes all of us to keep our culture positive, safe and inclusive. Here's what you can do.
Celebrate the world’s oldest continuing cultures this NAIDOC Week
Do you understand the significance of a Welcome to Country ceremony? We encourage you to witness one for yourself on campus during NAIDOC Week.
National Reconciliation Week 2024: join us as we honour the rights of First Nations peoples
The theme of NRW 2024, Now More Than Ever, reminds us all that the fight for justice and the rights of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people must continue. Here's what's happening at Deakin and in the community this week.
‘Not just buzz words’: reflections on neurodiversity, Chloé Hayden and Deakin
Today is Global Accessibility Awareness Day (16 May)! To celebrate, we take a look at what neurodivergence really means, Deakin's Hidden Sunflower project, plus what we learned when actor and disability rights activist Chloé Hayden paid us a visit.