Equity, diversity and social inclusion
Equity, diversity and social inclusion
Monash Business School values human rights, social justice, and respect for diversity in individuals, communities and ideas. We celebrate cultural, gender, and linguistic diversity, and advance equity through access to opportunities for communities often underrepresented in business education and research. Our activities within the School contribute to the University's Diversity and Inclusion Framework.
Equity and Diversity Excellence Awards
Monash Business School recognises outstanding contributions to equity, diversity and social inclusion through its annual Celebrating Excellence Awards.
How can we foster the next generation of inclusive marketers?
Associate Professor Fiona Newton's work and transformative impact on marketing students has broken new ground in social inclusion education.
How can disadvantaged people gain access to better health care and outcomes?
Monash Centre for Health Economics (CHE) researchers are shining a spotlight on disadvantaged people needing access to better health care and outcomes, particularly focusing on under-researched issues.
How can we ensure equal access to the law?
Associate Professor Catrina Denvir’s research sets new inclusive benchmarks for justice for the culturally and linguistically diverse, people with a disability or ongoing medical or mental health conditions, and individuals from low socio-economic backgrounds.
Filling the food supply gap
Bachelor of Business and Accounting student Benjamin Michelson is a recipient of the Monash Business School 2020 Future Global Leaders Award. Mr Michelson is the founder of FoodFilled, an initiative acquiring food from retailers and delivering it to charities in need. Since 2018, it has involved 150 volunteers and fed more than 10,000 people.
Hands up for responsible leadership
After Malaysian reforms required large company boards to comprise at least 30 per cent women, Priya Sharma asked her students to enter the debate. What happened next earned Ms Sharma international recognition.
A timely debate
An educator motivated by human connection, Dr Alessandro Ghio urges his accounting students to consider “the common good, social justice and equity before profit”, teaching them to think holistically.
In our community
International Women's Day
At Monash Business School, we help women become leaders in their respective fields of endeavour. On International Women’s Day, we celebrate the achievements of our talented alumni, students, educators and researchers. Collectively, we can all help create an inclusive world.
Diversity and inclusion week
To celebrate our diverse Monash community, Indigenous educator Shawn Andrews chatted with Associate Professor Nicholas McGuigan, Director of Equity, Diversity and Social Inclusion about Indigenous business, governance and accountability.
In the news
Our commitment to artistic inclusion
We reflect our commitment to inclusion through the Monash Business School's art collection, which features Indigenous artists, emerging artists, particularly women, and new Australians from a range of cultural backgrounds. Within the over-arching themes of diversity and inclusivity, our collection provides unique insights and perspectives on contemporary life from the architecture of the cities so many of us we live in to the impact of technology, the experience of migration and negotiation of histories and traditions.
Cement, steel slag, marble waste, living Australian plants
Based in Sydney, Jamie North initially worked in photography but is now known for his sculptures that combine the waste products of industry with native Australian plant species to create living installations. His interest in native plants and their ability to survive in the most unlikely circumstances led him to experiment with cast concrete and the bi-products of industrial processes to create miniature landscapes that replicate the ability of native plants to grow and reclaim seemingly hostile environments.
Gouache and acrylic on illustration board
Pakistani artist Nusra Latif Qureshi lives and works in Melbourne where her experience as an immigrant woman in Australian society has informed her artistic practice. Qureshi works across painting, installation and digital image making. The traditions of miniature painting and 19th century portrait photographer are employed by the artist to narrate personal stories and question the politics.
Oil on MDF
Raafat Ishak was born in Egypt in 1967 and migrated to Australia in 1982. His interdisciplinary practise ranges from painting, installation and site-specific drawing, informed by architecture and his Arabic cultural heritage. Ishak’s work is often punctuated by the symbiotic relationship between the political and the personal, exploring the nuances of cross-cultural dialogue in the process. These paintings by Ishak, from a series of works each bearing the name of a nut as a way of serialising their titles, are typical of his approach to image-making. Fragments quoted from diverse sources in art history, design – especially architecture – and elsewhere are overlaid to condense broad spans of historical time into each work. Ishak stages encounters between ancient and modern cultures throughout his paintings.
Bark painting
Nyapanyapa Yunupingu is a member of the Gumatj Clan and Yolngu people. She lives in Yirrkala, Arnhem Land in the Northern Territory and is a senior artist from a family of cultural leaders. Yunupingu’s oeuvre is marked by her departure from the conventions of Yolngu art, which was divided between sacred works connected intimately with Yolngu spiritual beliefs and purely decorative art. These paintings on bark are not defined by sacred law but represent the memories and experiences of the artist’s life. They use traditional earth pigments (ochre) painted onto bark in layers; red and black as a ground with luminescent white rrark (cross-hatching) and figurative elements.