Structure & governance
The EDI team comprises a range of business units, networks and institutes to support a wide range of equity cohorts and initiatives.
Pro Vice-Chancellor Inclusion
Professor Bruce Watson
Professor Bruce Watson has a diverse research and teaching background in sustainable futures, design studio learning and teaching, and most recently higher education management and policy. He leads Equity, Diversity & Inclusion at UNSW.
Access, Equity & Inclusion
Mary Teague
Improving access to higher education for students from under-represented backgrounds through research, partnerships and outreach and creating a welcoming and diverse community at UNSW where everyone can participate fairly in a safe and respectful environment.
Yuwaya Ngarra-li
Ruth McCausland
A community-led partnership between the Dharriwaa Elders Group and UNSW working to improve the wellbeing, social, built and physical environment and life pathways of Aboriginal people in Walgett through collaborating on evidence-based initiatives, research and capacity building.
UNSW Disability Innovation Institute
Jackie Leach Scully
Leading disability-inclusive ways of working by connecting researchers and educators with lived experience of disability to improve engagement practices at UNSW.
Operations
Kristy Oberg
Supporting the operational needs, ensuring initiatives are governed, work is visible and EDI principles always underpin the University’s conduct.
The EDI Board
UNSW’s Equity Diversity & Inclusion (EDI) Board supports organisational change to enable the University to be a leading exemplar in diversity and inclusion. The University’s Leadership Team and the EDI Staff Consultative Group play an integral part in driving this change, meeting quarterly to prioritise initiatives that can improve equity and diversity for students and staff and reviews progress of diversity goals against the plans and targets set by the University, Faculties and Divisions. 
