About the Action Plan
The Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Action Plan 2024 – 2030 (‘the DEIAP’) is the first action plan for diversity, equity, and inclusion for the Faculty of Fine Arts and Music. The DEIAP continues to respond strategically to the need for systemic transformation so that all students, staff, and members of the broader community, can access and have positive experiences in our spaces and with our people, programs, and systems.
What diversity, equity, and inclusion mean at the University of Melbourne
Inclusion
Equity
Structure of the Action Plan
Four Goals are identified in the Action Plan. These Goals respond to evidenced need and signal our commitment to continually improve diversity, equity, and inclusion in our faculty. For each goal, a number of aims, objectives, and multiple actions, are identified.
Aim 1.1
To make all spaces and systems accessible, equitable, and inclusive.
Aim 1.2
Improve the experience of staff and students with respect to diversity, equity, and inclusion in the Faculty of Fine Arts and Music.
Aim 1.3
Improve teaching and learning to support diversity, equity and inclusion in the Faculty of Fine Arts and Music.
Aim 2.1
To increase the diversity of our student community.
Aim 2.2
To increase the diversity of our staff community.
Aim 3.1
To better meet the expectations of our staff and student communities in relation to diversity, equity, and inclusion.
Aim 3.2
To better meet the expectations of the broader community in relation to diversity, equity, and inclusion.
Aim 4.1
Faculty of Fine Arts and Music leadership demonstrates commitment to creating diverse, equitable, and inclusive spaces, processes, and community.
Aim 4.2
Faculty of Fine Arts and Music leadership actively supports staff and students to contribute to improving diversity, equity, and inclusion.
A note from the Associate Dean, Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
Since the launch of the Faculty’s Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Action Plan 2024-2030, the Faculty
has pursued systemic improvement of diversity, equity and inclusion for staff and students
through work on 40 actions. Our efforts as individuals and teams continue to be absolutely vital to the goals of the Action Plan, to make the Faculty more diverse, inclusive, and equitable in the interests of every member of our community and society as a whole. Thank you for your continued engagement with this initiative as we move through our second year of action.
Sally Treloyn, Associate Dean, Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion, November 2024
The Action Plan is distinctive to the Faculty’s place in society, and we believe that the arts are critical to the sustainability of societies globally. To enable that sustainability, we need diversity among our communities, including through a range of artistic, creative, and scholarly expressions, with these supported by equitable and inclusive systems, processes, and spaces.
Marie SierraDean, Faculty of Fine Arts and Music
It is my fervent hope that in embracing and amplifying our Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Action Plan, we can further the wonderful work being done by so many within our community. Work which draws upon the laws, principles and diplomacies which have guided art making in these lands for thousands upon thousands of generations and which acknowledge a fundamental truth – our stories are stronger when we tell them together
Tiriki OnusHead, Wilin Centre for Indigenous Arts and Culture Development
Read the full Action Plan
The background and rationale for the DEIAP is recorded in the Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Action Plan (DEIAP) 2024 – 2030, Version 1. A new version of the DEIAP is released annually. The current version of the Action Plan is DEIAP Version 2, 2026.
Contact us
To get involved or if you have enquiries about the Action Plan please email fineartsmusic-dei@unimelb.edu.au