Increasing Student Engagement with PRME: Strategies, Practices and Partnerships

Programme:

• Welcome and Acknowledgement of Country (Joya Kemper/Rob Hales)

• Framing Input (5 mins)

  The University of Sydney Business School (Ranjit Voola): Insights from student feedback, including the Positive Impact Rating, to frame student expectations and motivations around responsible management education.

• Practice-Based Lightning Contributions (5 mins each):
  

  These contributions will present different modes of student engagement, using specific initiatives as examples:

  Experiential/Competition-Based Learning: PRME student engagement, including Enactus (Fara Azmat, Deakin University)

  SDG Challenge-Based Learning: PRME and the SDG Challenge WA (Donella Caspersz, Uni of WA)

  Work-Integrated Learning (WIL): Embedding PRME through industry engagement (Ruby Ma, Deakin University)

  Curriculum and Co-curricular Engagement: Broader strategies for embedding PRME across the student experience (Swati Nagpal, La Trobe University)

• Facilitated Discussion and Q&A (approx. 30–40 mins)
  

  What drives student participation in PRME-related activities?

  Barriers to engagement (e.g., awareness, incentives, curriculum alignment)

  Effective strategies for scaling and sustaining engagement

  Opportunities for cross-institutional collaboration