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Welcome to the Australian Centre for Student Equity and Success

The Australian Centre for Student Equity and Success acknowledges Indigenous peoples across Australia as the Traditional Owners of the lands on which the nation’s campuses are situated. With a history spanning more than 60,000 years as the original educators, Indigenous peoples hold a unique place in our nation. We recognise the importance of their knowledge and culture, and reflect the principles of participation, equity, and cultural respect in our work. We pay our respects to Elders past, present, and future, and consider it an honour to learn from our Indigenous colleagues, partners, and friends.

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University size and equity participation
ACSES Data Insights Series
Equitable learning for students with invisible disabilities in higher education: Voice, systems, and institutional change
A Large Grants Research Program final report. The project is the first large‑scale, mixed‑methods national study to examine the lived experiences of students with invisible disabilities, the understandings and capacities of academic and professional staff relevant to those students’ experiences, and the institutional systems through which reasonable adjustments and accessibility measures are delivered in Australian universities.
Equity participation targets and sector growth: How are we tracking between 2021 and 2024?
ACSES Data Insights Series
Equity Insights 2026: Understanding student realities and redesigning systems for success
ACSES 2025 Annual Report
This Annual Report covers the calendar year 2025 and outlines ACSES’s operations, activities, impact, and strategic direction.
Is the problem us? Helping part-time students succeed in a full-time world
An ACSES Equity Fellowship final report. The project looks at the increasingly complex challenges facing part-time university students and what interventions are needed to help them succeed.
From Evidence to Impact 2026 – Policy and Practice Insights from ACSES
From Evidence to Impact presents policy and practice summaries from a series of projects funded through ACSES grants and fellowship programs. It is intended for practitioners, policymakers, and institutional leaders who wish to engage with the findings and recommendations in an accessible, at-a-glance format.
Centring equity in data and digital governance: Informing policy to empower practice
An ACSES Equity Fellowship final report. The project looks at how Australian universities are managing challenges around the governance of equity data, which tracks how students from underrepresented backgrounds enrol, study, and succeed in higher education.
Increasing access and opportunity: Nesting enabling programs in senior schooling
A Large Grants Research Program final report. The project is the first national, cross-institutional benchmarking and impact study of in-school enabling programs in Australia, examining models and outcomes with a focus on impact for equity groups.
Enabling programs in Australian higher education
ACSES Data Insights Series
Featured Publications
A Small Grants Research Program final report. The study explored the ways in which Indigenous PhD scholars in Australia, Turtle Island Canada, and Aotearoa New Zealand are championing community-informed and Indigenous-led research at the cultural interface in higher education.
A Small Grants Research Program final report. The study compared the university enrolment patterns of First-in-Family (FiF) students, defined as students without university-educated parents, with that of non-FiF students.
This report outlines policy options in relation to parity targets for four priority equity groups in Australian higher education – students from low SES backgrounds, First Nations Australian students, students with disability, and students from regional and remote Australia.
A Small Grants Research Program final report. The study returned to a diverse cross-section of schools in the Aspirations Longitudinal Study (2012-2015) to understand how students’ views about their futures had changed over the past decade.
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