New SVA host announcement!

We are excited to announce that the University of Southern Queensland have been appointed the new host of Student Voice Australasia. As the new home base of the SVA network, UniSQ will provide an experienced senior leadership team equipped with sector knowledge of student engagement and the nuances of student voice and partnership work. UniSQ has been an active participant in the SVA network since 2016, and successfully tendered for the opportunity to host SVA through a competitive EOI process last year.

I am delighted that UniSQ will be hosting SVA over the next three years, during a time of opportunity to strengthen student engagement across the sector. The work of the SVA network fits well with UniSQ’s mission as a regional university building strong partnerships with our students and communities.  

- Professor Karen Nelson, Provost UniSQ.

UniSQ has strong institutional commitment to student partnership at the strategic and operational levels, from learning and teaching, as well as in relation to building a culture of active student participation across their university. As an innovative regional university, UniSQ is uniquely positioned to drive SVA’s strategic sector priorities and to guide the next phase of SVA’s mission to build cultures of authentic and inclusive student engagement in institutional decision-making. As SVA host, UniSQ aims to ensure SVA works to amplify diverse student voices across the network.

As Dean (Students) at UniSQ, I am deeply honoured that we have been successful in becoming the new host institution for Student Voice Australia (SVA).  Students are a university’s greatest resource and SVA are the peak body for Higher Education in Australia, representing what has become commonly known as the ‘student voice.’   UniSQ are proud to contribute to the leadership of this important organisation over the coming years and we look forward to working with all Australian universities (the majority of whom are currently members of SVA) as our sector seeks to develop a more inclusive approach towards engaging our students as co-partners and co-creators of learning experiences that will fashion their future.

 -  Professor Jim Nyland, Dean (Students) UniSQ.

This transition marks SVA’s third institutional host; now in its sixth year, SVA was developed and piloted at the University of Technology Sydney, led by Professor Sally Varnham, and has been proudly and passionately hosted by the University of Adelaide for the past three years. Sharing institutional hosting across the sector provides diversity in input and direction, opportunities for new leadership and, importantly, maintains the democratic governance and operations of the network itself.