The UTS Multicultural Women’s Network (MWN) is a staff-led initiative committed to fostering a supportive and empowering environment for multicultural women at UTS.
Purpose
Our purpose is to enable multicultural women to realise their full potential and advocate for equity and justice in the workplace. MWN also serves as a channel through which the university can engage with multicultural women’s perspectives in shaping policies, strategies, and programs.
Vision
Our vision is to build a strong community of multicultural women who are empowered and supported to thrive both personally and professionally, while being recognised as valuable, contributing members of the UTS community.
We hope to achieve this vision by:
- Supporting multicultural women at UTS to feel empowered, visible, and connected by establishing safe spaces for professional and personal networking, learning and development and mutual support. The network also works as a channel through which the university can access multicultural women’s perspectives for policies, strategies, and programs.
- Influencing cultural and systemic change for equity and inclusion by advocating for targeted recruitment and retention practices, and opportunities to increase multicultural women’s meaningful representation and visibility at UTS.
- Celebrating cultural diversity at UTS in ways that acknowledge the expertise, lived experiences, and knowledges of people from multicultural backgrounds in meaningful ways.
Who can join the network?
We welcome UTS professional and academic, continuing, fixed-term, and sessional/casual staff members who identify as multicultural women with diverse cultural, ethnic, and linguistic heritages, including those from migrant, refugee, and Indigenous backgrounds. We recognise that the experiences of multicultural women are shaped by intersecting factors such as race, language, migration status, and systemic barriers.
While our key goal is to provide a platform for multicultural women, we also welcome allies who do not identify as multicultural women and are willing to learn and challenge their biases. We value a diversity of perspectives, working together toward a common goal.
Our structure and operations
MWN operates as an independent and self-sustaining network within UTS, led by staff members who volunteer their time and expertise. While we collaborate with various university divisions and stakeholders, MWN is not housed within or governed by any single UTS unit, department or faculty. This independence ensures that MWN remains responsive to the evolving needs of its members while maintaining a clear and distinct identity within the broader university community.
Core committee
The MWN core committee drives the strategic direction and priorities of the Multicultural Women’s Network. Meet our core committee