Community Research

Living Links

The Living Links project will engage key community stakeholders in a coordinated strategy to rebuild community aspirations through a series of positive community driven events and initiatives. The project will have three primary areas of focus:

  • Empowering the local community to have a voice and ownership of local issues.
  • Development and delivery of actions and initiatives that build a positive community profile, including a regional event involving a series Aboriginal cultural workshops for schools.
  • Communication and celebration of achievements within and beyond the local community.

The Living Links project will create a regionally accessible database of local resources and personnel to support the implementation of projects and initiatives. It will also strengthen partnerships with interagency groups through engagement with external networks and have a positive community profile and participation that is actively communicated within and beyond the community.

Our Place – Greater Western Sydney

The NSW Office of Environment and Heritage (OEH) has partnered with the University of Western Sydney and RCE-GWS toMap of Western Sydney WSROC implement the Our Place - Western Sydney project.  The Our Place project aims to support environmental and sustainability educators in the Western Sydney region to identify how they are engaging with their communities and how to get these communities more involved in looking after their local environments.

An EOI is being sent to sustainability educators in Greater Western Sydney to identify effective engagement strategies for culturally and linguistically diverse (CALD) backgrounds, along with local landholders, businesses, Aboriginal communities and community groups such as Rotary, early childhood and schools.

The project was designed to find out how community sustainability educators and community members can be assisted to achieve environmental and sustainability outcomes in the region. Read the full Our Place, Western Sydney (PDF, 1834.87 KB) (opens in a new window) project report. 

Scoping Project

The project aims to take the wish-list of ideas and convert them into a properly articulated and integrated, collaborative community engagement and education grant application. Seed funds would be used to fund this process of:

  • Bringing RCE-related partners together.
  • Identifying stakeholder potentials for engagement and education through their various ‘projects’.
  • Developing a grant funding strategy to deliver this.
This project is coordinated by the Hawkesbury EarthCare Centre, Hawkesbury Harvest, Hawkesbury Environment Network and will be assisted by UWS Office of Sustainability.

The Local Loop

Television Sydney (TVS) (opens in a new window) is a free-to-air television channel based at the University of Western Sydney, providing a creative outlet for sustainability messaging throughout many of their programs. These education TVS Local-Loopprograms are broadcast all over Sydney spreading important environmental awareness.

Local Loop is a new weekly show presented and produced by the University of Western Sydney's School of Communication Arts students and will shown weekly on Friday at 6.45pm. Local Loop will tell you about all the great community events you can go along to during the upcoming week. Stay up to date and informed about events around town by tuning into Local Loop.