History Social Inclusion Program

Please note: this program is currently on hold until further notice.

Piloted in 2011, these visits are usually structured around a short learning module consisting of 1-2 sessions. Sessions may involve mini-lectures from university staff and visits to university museum collections. The session includes campus tours where you can meet with current postgraduate, honours and/or undergraduate students provide campus tours.

Previous examples include the Medieval Sydney history project with Granville Boys, Cecil Hills High School, Kogarah High School and Malek Fahd Islamic School, and the Migrant Sydney history project (or “Who do you think you are? Program) with Chifley College.

The program also worked with University Museums to support Project Based Learning with Year 7 students from Granville Boys High School, where students created virtual museums, presenting what they had learned about curatorial practices to their peers, teachers and parents. Students who give the best presentations receive prizes from the History discipline.

Please note: this program is currently on hold until further notice.

In this program, our postgraduate research students visit low SES partner schools to mentor students in creating historical projects over five sessions. Students from partner schools also visit the University to learn research and library skills, and to present their projects to their peers, faculty and postgraduate students. Students who give the best presentations receive prizes from the  History discipline.

We have been partnering with Granville Boys High School and Miller Technology High School since 2012.

This initiative is similar to the year 11 program, where university students guide HSC Extension students in the research and writing of their history projects. Students who submit the best essays receive prizes from the History discipline. We have worked with Chifley College and Cecil Hills High School since 2016, and in 2023, we relaunched this initiative to include Canley Vale, Birrong Girls, and Corowa High Schools.

Initiated in 2016, current history students are nominated by staff for the best essay on the topic of social inclusion.

We sponsor a number of essay prizes for year 11 and HSC history students at partner schools, and participates in end-of-year prize ceremonies for those high achieving students and their peers, parents, and teachers.

Thanks to the generosity of an anonymous donor, we offer undergraduate equity scholarships to study history at the University of Sydney.

Established in 2015, this Scholarship provides assistance to enrolling and current undergraduate students who are majoring in history.

Current students can apply for up to one year of funding, while recent school leavers who enrol in a Bachelor of Arts or Bachelor of Arts/Bachelor of Advanced Studies majoring in history can receive three to four years of funding.

For more information, please visit Undergraduate Equity Scholarships in History page.

Our current program is focused on Corowa High School, but the program has previously engaged with regional schools including Willyama High School, Broken Hill High School, Wilcannia Central School, Dubbo Senior College, Gilgandra High School and Coonabarabran High School. We have worked closely with these schools doing local site studies, and hosting them at the University of Sydney for short stays. It is a key goal of the program to continue and expand upon this regional outreach.