We’re committed to increasing the employment of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people across all academic and professional occupation categories. The Indigenous Employment Framework is the key driver for advancement of Indigenous staff recruitment and retention across the University.

Our commitment is to provide:

• A culturally safe workplace for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander staff
• Cultural and Ceremonial Leave available
• Annual cultural events such as the Wominjeka to begin the Academic Year and the Narrm Oration
• Spaces to meet and connect with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander colleagues and students
• Indigenous Staff Support Network
• Indigenous Employment Officer

The University is proud to have been a founding member of the SAGE initiative to undertake the Athena SWAN Charter in Australia. In recognition of our commitment to taking action on gender equity in STEMM, the University has received a Bronze Award, the first stage in the accredititation framework. Under the leadership of Professor Marilys Guillemin and the Diversity and Inclusion Steering Committee, the University of Melbourne is implementing a four-year action plan to address challenges and opportunities relating to gender equity and diversity.

Program aims:

• Improve the retention and promotion of women and gender minorities in Science, Technology, Engineering, Maths and Medicine (STEMM)
• Advance gender equity and diversity in academia
• Address the loss of women across the career pipeline
• Tackle gender pay gaps
• Remove obstacles faced by women
• Make sustainable structural and cultural changes to advance gender equity and diversity

Find out more about Athena SWAN.

We are a member of Pride in Diversity, the national not-for-profit employer support program for LGBTI workplace inclusion specialising in HR, organisational change and workplace diversity.

Pride in Diversity publishes the Australian Workplace Equality Index (AWEI), Australia’s national benchmarking instrument for LGBTI workplace inclusion from which Top Employers for LGBTI people is determined.

From the establishment of a Handicapped Students’ Advisory Committee in 1968, to being the first university in Australia to lodge a Disability Action Plan with the Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission in 1994, the University has remained at the forefront of changing understanding of, and approaches to, the inclusion of people with a disability in the higher education sector. We continue our commitment to students with a disability through the ongoing review and improvement of our policies and practices and the Disability Action Plan (2014-2018).

The University has established a Professorial Fellowship in Disability and Social Inclusion and the Disability Research Initiative to develop research to benefit people with a disability. We have a partnership with Scope Australia, a disability services provider, and jointly appointed Professor Keith McVilly as the University’s Professorial Fellow in Disability and Social Inclusion to lead the research.