This initiative intends to improve the use of English for newly arrived Afghan Judges in Australia.

In a new initiative launched in 2022 over the summer months, female students studying at the UTS Faculty of Law will be paired in partnership with Afghan Women Judges, recently arrived in Australia with their family.

The aim of the project is to ‘match’ two students with one Afghan woman judge. Each judge will meet with 1-2 students for a 30-minute Zoom session, two times a week.


Project objectives

  1. To improve conversational English for the judge recently arrived from Afghanistan
  2. To facilitate Brennan Program student engagement and Leadership through Service (LTS) hours for the UTS student coordinating and attending the Zoom sessions
  3. To facilitate connection and understandings between participants.

Participants are asked to familiarise themselves with the initiative handbook to understand the rules of the program, to make oneself available during this period and to read a collection of resources to get the conversations going.

Project Resources

The UTS Brennan Program Team have put together a handbook to outline the aims of the program for participants. Included in this handbook are some suggestions for conversation starters. 

UTS Law Afghan Judges Conversational English Initiative Handbook (PDF, 109KB)

Program contacts

Should participants in this program have queries, support is here! Judges may contact the Brennan Faculty Co-Director Associate Professor Jane Wangmann Jane.Wangmann@uts.edu.au and students may contact Sivaan and Crystal with the Brennan Team brennanprogram@uts.edu.au.