The Australian Centre for Student Equity and Success acknowledges Indigenous peoples across Australia as the Traditional Owners of the lands on which the nation’s campuses are situated. With a history spanning more than 60,000 years as the original educators, Indigenous peoples hold a unique place in our nation. We recognise the importance of their knowledge and culture, and reflect the principles of participation, equity, and cultural respect in our work. We pay our respects to Elders past, present, and future, and consider it an honour to learn from our Indigenous colleagues, partners, and friends.
This grant can be used to develop institutional capacity to implement impact evaluations of equity initiatives. This can be achieved through a variety of means, including, but not limited to:
- engaging internal or external evaluation experts;
- engaging in cross-institutional collaborations to share knowledge/best practices or identify opportunities for scalability (for example, combining data to create greater power); and
- providing professional development/training activities for key staff, in line with the aims of this grant scheme.
This Equity Frontiers Capacity Building Grants Program is an open and competitive process.
Funding Round 1, 2025
Round 1, 2025 has now closed. The following institutions (and other institutions where applicable), were awarded grants for their listed projects:
- Australian Catholic University – Leadership and Capacity Building for Impact-Driven Equity and Widening Participation Initiatives
- Edith Cowan University – Development of a Program Evaluation Community of Practice to support a whole-of-university approach to SEHEEF
- University of the Sunshine Coast – Development of Equity Data Dashboard Foundation to Facilitate Equity Program Impact Evaluations
- University of Canberra – Fostering evaluative capacity for Widening Participation Practitioners in the Primary School Context
- Deakin University – Building infrastructure to evaluate student equity programming outcomes
- Griffith University (with other IRU universities) – Towards impact evaluations of student equity programs across the Innovative Research Universities (IRU) group
- Charles Darwin University – Evaluation for Practitioners: Developing capacity, confidence and passion for evaluation and monitoring to improve student outcomes by measuring impact
- University of Wollongong – Building Evaluative Capacity to Improve Equity Student Retention and Experience at UOW
- The University of Queensland (with Monash University) – Building Capacity to Evaluate Scalable School Outreach Mentoring Programs
- The University of Melbourne (with other Go8 universities) – Building a collaboration for impact evaluation of student equity programs across Group of Eight institutions
- The University of Newcastle – Reimagining Evaluation: Creating and Indigenisation of Curriculum Evaluation Ecosystem
- University of South Australia – Chartering Change: Building Developmental Evaluation Capacity for Equity Initiatives
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