Community organisations

Bachelor of Design (Visual Communication) students offer design solutions to community-based organisations through the final year subject, Socially Responsive Design. Typical project work includes team and project management, client briefings, empathy research, user testing and product sourcing and specification.

Depending on your project brief, the key deliverables may be:

• Design strategy
• Service design – communicating service journeys
• Video/motion graphics
• Illustration
• Brand identity
• App design
• Collateral (new logo, posters, flyers, social media templates)

Examples of previous Socially Responsive Design projects:

• Students lend a helping hen-d to not-for-profit | University of Technology Sydney (uts.edu.au)
• UTS students help Economic Justice Australia with marketing | University of Technology Sydney

Managing for Social Impact is an undergraduate subject that allows students to develop their knowledge of the challenges faced by businesses in meeting social and environmental responsibilities and explore effective approaches to addressing these challenges. By working together, students create strategies which organisations can use to work together to further their respective objectives in contributing to a prosperous, high achieving and fairer society.

The key deliverables are:

• Final report
• Presentation to client  

Business and Social Impact is an undergraduate subject where students explore how they can make a difference through creating businesses whose mission is dedicated to realising positive social and environmental change. Students first analyse the relationship between a company’s mission, its operations and the resultant impact on society and the environment from multiple perspectives including accounting, economics, finance, management, marketing, Indigenous and global perspectives. Students then examine the challenges and opportunities in harnessing the power of the markets to create both economic and social value.

The key deliverable is:

• Final report

Management Consulting is an undergraduate subject where students have the opportunity to apply their management skills through engaging with a real client. 

A tutorial class of business students – supervised by academic staff with a professional Management Consulting background, will respond to your brief through various streams and deliver a range of reports with responses to the brief.

The working streams will vary depending on your needs and goals. For example, you may have six student teams working on different streams, such as corporate funding, stakeholder management, diverse income streams, brand awareness.

As this is a practice-based subject teaching the consulting process, the student teams will utilise specific consulting tools and methods in the construction of the reports.

The key deliverables are: 

• Final report 
• Presentation to client 

Examples of previous Management Consulting projects:

• Helping Panania Free Rangers | University of Technology Sydney (uts.edu.au)
• A new corporate engagement strategy for Project Didi | University of Technology Sydney (uts.edu.au)
• Raising community awareness about climate change impacts | University of Technology Sydney (uts.edu.au)

Professional Pathways is an undergraduate final year subject in the UTS Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences. In this subject, students work independently with their academic supervisor and community partner to analyse a research topic addressing real-world problems.

The key deliverable is:

• Research report