Respect Week

📅 Term 2, Week 2 | 🏷️ Let’s Be Better Humans

Respect Week is back! Join us for a week of events all about building a campus culture of respect, empathy, and community.

From heartfelt convos to hilarious PowerPoint pitches, there’s something for everyone. Let’s be better humans together!

What's On

The Great Debate: (Dis)Respect

In the spirit of Respect Week we are inviting UNSW's best debaters to challenge our notions of disrespect and respect! Join us for a classic 3v3 oral show down between affirmative and negative teams from UNSW Debating Society. The debate will be adjudicated by Deborah Travers-Wolf, a prominent transformational leadership coach. 

The debate topic will be "we prefer a world where all humans look the same". 

📅 Date: Tuesday 9th June

⏰ Time: 3 - 5 PM

📍 Location: Roundhouse Club Bar

🎟️ Tickets on sale NOW!

Campus Crush

New to dating in Australia? Join us for a fun, judgement-free workshop where we explore how respect, boundaries, and consent can look different across cultures- and what that means for you 💘 All attendees will receive a delicious dinner alongside the session, and a free ticket to the spectacular Pitch Your Pals! ✨

📅 Date: Tuesday 9th June | Wednesday 10th June

⏰ Time: 5 - 6:30 PM

📍 Location: UNSW Roundhouse

📝 Register here!

Quad Takeover

Join us on the Quad to celebrate respect at UNSW! We're bringing the good vibes and deep convos to you- grab a FREE picnic lunch and hear what your campus community has to say!

Featuring:

• The Women's Collective & Little Sister Big Sister - packing care packages for the Aboriginal Women & Children's Crisis Service 
• The Queer Collective & ACON - with DIY pronoun badges
• Arc Insiders - playing Red Flag Green Flag
• UNSW Inclusive Communities - bringing accessible arts & crafts 
• What Were You Wearing - providing resources & support
• Kick with the Swans- Meet and greet Sydney Swans players and UNSW students James Rowbottom and Logan McDonald!
• Race in Her Heels- are you UNSW's fastest ally? Strap on your heels and win a chance to be crowned on the Arc Instagram!
• And heaps more!

📅 Date: Wednesday 10th June

⏰ Time: 10 AM - 4 PM

📍 Location: UNSW Quad

Pitch Your Pals (18+)

Looking for love? One of our campus cuties could be your person! Visit the Roundhouse to see UNSW's stitched-up singles get pitched to a live audience by their besties, AND get the chance to meet the love of your life! 

Pitch Your Pals is an 18+ event- please be sure to bring a physical form of ID on the night to confirm your age!

📅 Date: Wednesday 10th June

⏰ Time: 6 PM - 8 PM

📍 Location: UNSW Roundhouse

🎟️ Tickets on sale NOW!

The Faculty of Law & Justice - Staff Morning Tea

Stop by for a session focused on respect within the field of Law & Justice.

This event is hosted for UNSW staff.

📅 Date: Wednesday 10th June

⏰ Time: 10:45 - 11:15 AM

📍 Location: Law Building

Leaders Training: Practical Respect and Inclusion

Come along and sharpen your leadership skills and explore how to create high performance teams founded on Radical Respect for Everyone Equally! Deb Travers-Wolf is the Convenor of UNSW's Postgraduate Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Course, with 20+ years in global multinationals - supporting leaders and teams to become inclusive, high performance teams.

This session will help you prepare beyond the hallowed walls of UNSW - aka the 'real world of work'. You will have the opportunity to challenge yourself, and learn how to safely and respectfully challenge others. You'll explore what Radical Respect looks like, learn how to:

• Recognise who you do and don't respect
• Behave as you believe,
• Challenge with care and candour

There are limited spots available so register below!

📅 Date: Wednesday 10th June

⏰ Time: 3 - 4:30 PM

📍 Location: Arc Office

📝 Register here!

UNSW Disability Inclusion Action Plan (DIAP) 2026-2029 Launch

Join us as we launch UNSW’s new Disability Inclusion Action Plan (DIAP) 2026-2029.

This new DIAP reaffirms UNSW’s commitment to removing barriers and building more accessible, inclusive environments across UNSW - by embedding disability inclusion into our systems, programs and spaces. Hear from leaders and members of the community about how UNSW is working towards a more disability inclusive university and the work that’s already being done. It’s also an opportunity to connect with others and leaders at UNSW over afternoon tea!

📅 Date: Thursday 11th June

⏰ Time: 2 - 3:30 PM

📍 Location: Tyree Room, John Niland Scientia Building (G19)

📝 Register here!

Leaders Training: Creating Cultures of Safety

Come along and hear from the wonderful Angela Griffin, from new student group connect2prevent, who will be delivering an interactive training session for club leaders, officers and senior volunteers.

This session is tailored to your experiences, creating space to reflect on the real challenges you’ve faced (or might face) in your student communities. Topics you can raise include (but are not limited to): 

• sexual harassment and assault

• hazing

• bullying, and/or

• general issues of conflict arising in your student group

You’ll have the chance to talk through these situations in a supportive environment and together, we will brainstorm practical approaches to handling them.

📅 Date: Thursday 11th June

⏰ Time: 4:30 - 6 PM

📍 Location: Arc Office

📝 Register here!