Partnership with University of Melbourne

BSL’s Social Policy and Research Centre and the University of Melbourne have a longstanding collaboration founded on a shared commitment to developing high quality research and a mutual concern for social justice and equity.

BSL and the University share a history of collaboration that spans at least 50 years. In 2003 the organisations formalised this relationship as a partnership underpinned by a Memorandum of Understanding. At the University of Melbourne responsibility for the partnership rests with the School of Social and Political Sciences in the Faculty of Arts; however partnership activities are University-wide.

The partnership has four main objectives:

• Develop a joint research program
• Develop a joint learning and teaching program
• Develop a program of joint events
• Jointly develop, fund and select appointees to key positions within the University

Joint academic appointees work across both the Brotherhood and the University of Melbourne:

• Assoc. Prof. Sue Olney
• Ronald Henderson Senior Research Fellow Dr Melek Cigdem-Bayram