KNoTs in this thread
Workshops that build the skills this thread asks for. See the full KNoT schedule for when they next run.
Inclusive Design
Who gets left out when we design? Come find out — learn how inclusive design practices serve as the foundation for stronger processes, better products,...
Meet the Author
The ANU Meet the Author Series has been bringing writers, historians and commentators to Canberra for nearly four decades. Each event is a conversation with...
Personal values discovery: Identify and live your values
Discover your internal compass — use the Live Your Values deck to identify what matters most, and how to live it.
Presentations that Don’t Suck (and that are creative and connect with others)!
Um, ah, blank stares, death by bullet point — let's fix all of it, together.
Queering Practice: Rethinking Power, Participation, and Change
This interactive KNOT explores how critically examining and disrupting normative assumptions around human experiences of gender and sexuality can strengthen community...
Respectful Relationships
The ANU Respectful Relationships Unit (RRU) was established in 2019 to prevent sexual assault and sexual harassment at ANU. It runs education, training and events...
What Are Universities For?
This inquiry challenges us to consider what universities uniquely offer to the broader community: not just knowledge transfer, but the development of critical thinking,...
Your value proposition: Telling your story
When asked in an interview, “Tell us about yourself,” many people struggle to know where to begin. This workshop will guide you to reflect on...
Projects in this thread
Real projects students are working on in this thread. Browse all projects, or bring your own.
EoI Open
A Seat at the Table: Adapting Peer Support for Younger Men
This project asks how an evidence-backed model of care could be reimagined for a younger cohort. The Men’s Table works on a simple model —...
Ongoing Project
ANU Student Urgent Relief Fund (SURF) Workplace Giving
Through the generosity of our ANU community and donors, the Student Urgent Relief Fund (SURF) provides support to ANU students who are experiencing financial hardship...
Ongoing Project
Barriers to Learning
Some of what makes university hard is the subject. Some of it is not: a recording that was never made, feedback that arrives after the...
EoI Open
Beyond Loneliness: Building Canberra's Third Spaces
The Foundation for Social Health runs the Third Space Network, a Canberra-based project building a network of ordinary community spaces to become extraordinary places for...
Ongoing Project
Bring Your Own Campus Idea
Some ideas arrive before a project does. You have noticed something on campus that could work better, or you are carrying a half-formed idea you...
Ongoing Project
Bring Your Own Community Project
If you arrive already connected to a community organisation — through volunteering, work, family, a club, or an earlier placement. this pathway is for you!...
EoI Open
Canberra Community Data Hub (Narrative Development & Community Voice)
The Canberra Community Data Hub will be an online platform that brings together data and community insight to better understand Canberra’s strengths and needs. Led...
EoI Open
Dear Prime Minister – Voices from Across the Nation
What happens when thousands of young Australians write directly to the Prime Minister, and those letters are brought together in one physical space?As Australia’s Youth...
Ongoing Project
Ongoing Project
Give It Forward - Circular Giving in Residential Halls
Every year, ANU residences generate a large volume of waste as students move out — much of it usable items simply discarded. The Give It...
EoI Open
Implications of Community Sourced Flood Intelligence
Local community knowledge plays a significant role in disaster response — providing on-the-ground situational awareness that can assist agencies like the SES and local councils,...
Ongoing Project
Improving Your Residential Hall
ANU's residential halls are small institutions: budgets, committees with portfolios, staff, and a few hundred people who live with the results. The community you test...
Ongoing Project
Leading Change in Clubs and Societies
ANU clubs and societies are real organisations: budgets, events, hundreds of members, and a whole operation handed to a new committee every year. Sitting on...
Ongoing Project
Menstrual Equity on Campus
This is a project that was started by a student group in Semester 1 2026. You will have access to the resources that they have...
EoI Open
Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E) of Nature-based Solutions (NbS) for Flooding
Nature-based Solutions (NbS) — such as re-vegetating riverbanks, restoring wetlands, and leaky weirs — are increasingly used to reduce flood risk and deliver co-benefits like...
EoI Open
Pollinate India International Fellowship Program
Many Indians, particularly internal migrates, live in informal settlements. Such settlements typically have no essential service delivery for water, energy, or communications,...
EoIs Closed
Roadmaps in Action: Supporting Economic Transition in Regional NSW
Through this project, students will develop practical skills in stakeholder consultation, regional analysis, and applied research. They will learn to assess water resource...
EoIs Closed
Sharing Stories, Sharing Joy
Funded by Creative Australia’s International Engagement Fund, Centre for Stories will host a delegation of Singaporean writers and arts workers in April 2026. The project...
EoI Open
Small Organisation, Big Systems — A Capacity-Building Project with Good Omen Goodeze
Through this placement, GOG is working toward a more sustainable, capable organisation. Their goals include better internal communications so the team can stay connected without...
Ongoing Project
The CSS Community Website for Student Experience
The CSS Community Website for Student Experience is a College-wide initiative designed to create a central hub that brings together student resources, opportunities, events,...