Additional Advice
They can be advertised projects with our Partners, or a project that you bring from your own work in the community.
Typically, students spend 40-80 hours on a project, in or outside of the organisation. Students can work in groups, and can undertake a project multiple times.
The project can take any form, but it must be collaborative - that is, students need to collaborate with the partner or with peers to create meaningful change (it isn't an activity in isolation).
For students looking to contribute to a Partner project - check out the advertised Partners and Projects.
For students who are already working on creating change in community, you can register your project through the Course Pathway Plan. If you'd like to advertise your project to more students on this website, you can reach out to McCusker.Education@anu.edu.au.
For folks in community wanting to attract our excellent students to projects in your organisation, please reach out to McCusker.Education@anu.edu.au.
Get Involved
If you are interested in working on a Partner project, please reach out to McCusker.Education@anu.edu.au and let us know:
- who you are
- why you're interested in this project
- what you might be able to bring to this project
- when you would be able to work on the project with the partner
- a recent CV that we can pass onto the partner
Please note that although we try out best to connect the right students with the right projects, expressing your interest does not guarantee working with the partner.
Browse Community and Partner Projects
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...
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...
Ongoing Project
Project Foresight
The purpose of this activity is to engage ANU students in the structured design and facilitation of crisis simulation scenarios. Students will apply course concepts...
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
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,...
EoI Open
Embedding Research in the Health System
Australia is a global leader in health and medical research, but a key challenge remains: embedding and translating research into real-world healthcare practice. Despite...
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
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...
EoI Open
Gateway to Gungahlin: Forecasting Canberra’s Active Travel Future
Canberra has long recognised the importance of its principal north-south corridor through the City and Gateway Urban Design Framework (2018) and the Southern Gateway Planning...
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 —...
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 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
Free the Press: The Media Freedom Bill Campaign
Australia's the only liberal democracy without legal press protection. You'll help change that.The Alliance for Journalists' Freedom (AJF) is partnering with the ANU McCusker...
EoI Open
Environmentally Responsible Use of AI
Investigate the hidden environmental costs of AI and help ANU build practical guidance for sustainable tech choices. AI systems are rapidly embedded across universities—in...
EoI Open
Reducing Waste Contamination Through Understanding Campus Behaviour
Figure out why campus waste programs lose momentum and design interventions that stick in a constantly changing community. ANU aims to divert 50% of waste...
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...