Guest lectures

Invest in co-developing industry-ready graduates and future talent by providing our students with the opportunity to learn from your authentic insights into workplace realities.

The workplace in the classroom

  • Guest lectures are an opportunity for you as an expert to foster better industry preparedness in students by ensuring they can link theory from their university studies with authentic workplace scenarios.
  • By sharing your relevant projects our students get inspired to explore careers in your organisation, or within the same industry. 

Delivering guest lectures to Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (FASS) Creative Writing students is a great way for me to gather my thoughts about the ever-evolving publishing landscape in Australia and abroad. As a board member of the Small Press Network it is a chance for me to convey some insights from this important organisation which advocates for independent publishers.

My presentations involve recent examples of controversial issues around such aspects of publishing as ethical storytelling protocols. I also engage the students in group discussions to explore those issues and to test new ideas.

Our production of a set of ten small format books last year to celebrate our ten years in publishing was a result of positive feedback from one of those discussion sessions, demonstrating the mutual benefit of guest lectures. 

Bronwyn Mehan (Publisher, Curator, Producer)
Spineless Wonders Publishing 

Recent guest lectures

Professionals from a range of sectors and organisations have delivered guest lectures to our students.

  • Westpac (Sustainable Finance) 

  • Ampol (Sustainability) 

  • Treasury NSW 

  • Austrade 

  • Land Care 

  • Department of Planning, Industry and Environment NSW 

  • City of Sydney, International Engagement  & Social Programs 

  • Refugee Talent 

  • Domestic Violence NSW 

  • Democracy in Colour 

  • Cultural Food Tours Sydney 

  • Tenants Union NSW 

  • Sydney Alliance 

  • Spineless Wonders Publishing 

guest speaker standing in front of slide with text about refugee migration

Refugee Talent Co-founder Nirary Dacho speaks to FASS students about his work resettling refugees in Australia through bespoke employment programs.

Acknowledgement of Country

UTS acknowledges the Gadigal people of the Eora Nation, the Boorooberongal people of the Dharug Nation, the Bidiagal people and the Gamaygal people, upon whose ancestral lands our university stands. We would also like to pay respect to the Elders both past and present, acknowledging them as the traditional custodians of knowledge for these lands.