Edition 8, 2025 – Inclusion and Diversity in Higher Education

BY NOAH MOON AND PETA MURRAY — Since RMIT's Creative Writing program began partnering with The Big Issue in 2022, three generations of first year students have had an opportunity to make their way into the world of creative nonfiction via dabblings in the memoiresque.

BY AMBER JANOWICZ AND DONNA MAZZA — Amber Janowicz's research project Epistles of the Body: Tracing Pre-Menstrual Dysphoric Disorder (PMDD) through Feminist Waves and Personal Narratives, comes after twenty-five years of medical misdiagnosis and two decades battling to reach her higher education goals.

BY DIDA SUNDET, LYNDALL ADAMS AND JOANNE DICKSON — Neurodivergent (ND) and neurotypical brains function differently – both can achieve similar goals, but in unique ways. From seeing neurodivergence in a strictly deficit framework, we are slowly moving towards neuro-affirmative models in diagnostic and care practices where focus shifts from

BY KATHERINE MOLINE, CHANTELLE BAISTOW AND SCOTT BROWN — This report contends that creating opportunities for students with neurodiversity in Australian Honours research training programs often draws from a history of progressive Euro American approaches to inclusive education.

BY KIM PERCY — For some of us, being creative is innate and many of us are driven by what Jill Orr refers to as a ‘need to create’ (Orr, J. 2024). As a sessional university lecturer, I have taught in visual art, photography, communication design, design media and professional

BY DOREEN DONOVAN AND GUY KEULEMANS — Recent shifts to decolonise higher education curricula (Times Higher Education, 2025; Askland et al., 2022; Moss et al., 2022; Gopal, 2021; Muldoon, 2019), alongside strategic priorities of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) (Eaton, 2022; Salmi & D’Addio, 2020; Cumming et al., 2023) have

BY ADRIAN HARRIS — Ata-foafoa ma fa’atinoga i le va o feso’otaiga fa’aleaganu’u: Fa’atinoga o tomai patino i totonu o nei feso’otaiga: Creative practice and the vā: Making meaning within intercultural relational spaces

BY BUJIKHAM BATMUNKH AND GUY KEULEMANS — The Mongolian yurt has evolved over centuries to accommodate nomadic people living year round in dynamic climates ranging from temperature as extreme as 40 degrees Celsius to minus 40 degrees Celsius.

BY WAJIHA PERVEZ — My favourite childhood memory is excitedly climbing onto my grandmother’s shoulders as she sat in her sewing corner, delicately stitching my clothes. It was her love language. She hand-stitched my clothes for every special occasion: birthdays, Eid, and my auntie’s wedding.