Careers and Employability

Community Engagement

The Get Set Mentoring Program is a student-led program designed to help new students connect, make friends, and understand the UQ community better. Peer mentors guide new UQ students through the first 6 weeks of semester, teaching them tips and tricks to navigate university life and settle into their studies.

Through participation in the Get Set Mentoring Program as a Peer Mentor, students have demonstrated their ability to:

  • Share knowledge by signposting to appropriate resources, opportunities to become involved in the campus community, and learn to independently locate support services
  • Successfully participate in experiences that foster and strengthen intercultural competencies and cultural humility
  • Consider the welfare of others when making decisions and hold themselves accountable for obligations and commitments
  • Model the capacities of positive mentoring, including active listening, compassion, responsiveness, sensitivity to concerns, and confidentiality

Participation as a Peer Mentor in the Get Set Mentoring Program also contributes to the development of the following UQ Graduate Attributes:

  • Connected citizens
  • Culturally capable
  • Influential communicators

Student-Staff Partnership Projects connect students and staff as equal partners and collaborators on projects that seek to enhance the UQ community - effecting positive change within the teaching and learning, student experience and governance/strategy environments. Students engage in up to 21 weeks of collaboration on their project in their partnership teams.

Through participation in a Student-Staff Partnership Project students have demonstrated their ability to:

  • Understand the partnership ethos, premised upon respect, mutual learning, accountability and shared responsibility.
  • Integrate diverse perspectives to enable collaborative partnership
  • Apply project management strategies and tools
  • Communicate confidently across diverse contexts
  • Effect transformational change and value continuous improvement

Participation in Student Staff Partnership projects also contributes to the development of the following UQ Graduate Attributes: 

  • Courageous thinkers
  • Connected citizens
  • Influential communicators

 

UQ Art Museum’s Cultural Mediation Program trains students as Cultural Mediators to create safe and inclusive spaces for visitors.  Museum visitors can explore artworks and exhibitions with these Cultural Mediators who provide an environment where questions are welcomed, ideas can be shared and visitors can think deeply about the artworks.

Through participation in the UQ Art Museum Cultural Mediation Program students have demonstrated their ability to:

  • Gain transdisciplinary skills in communication, problem solving, active listening, creativity, and visual analysis
  • Communicate confidently across diverse contexts
  • Build positive and meaningful relationships with community members and stakeholders
  • Practice genuine inclusivity
  • Effectively transform and adapt practices using reflection tools and peer-to-peer learning
  • Facilitate peer-to-peer learning experiences
  • Address challenging issues with empathy

Participation in the UQ Art Museum Cultural Mediation Program also contributes to the development of the following UQ Graduate Attributes:

  • Connected citizens
  • Courageous thinkers
  • Respectful leaders