RESPECT: Our Community Values
Deakin is a nurturing environment with a collaborative culture of respect that allows all students to thrive academically and grow as people. Residents and staff share the responsibility of building and maintaining a healthy and happy community, and all experiences are guided by our RESPECT values.
Our Community Values - RESPECT
Responsive: We are responsive and empathetic to the needs of individuals and cohorts, while being compassionate, inclusive and considerate of differences.
Encouraging : We support and encourage those who strive towards academic goals, nurture those who stand up for what is right, encourage personal accountability and foster resilience.
Safe: We are responsive to the needs of students living on campus, ensuring them a safe and secure living environment.
Proactive: We proactively encourage collaboration, information sharing and knowledge transfer to enhance the student residential experience.
Enjoyable: We offer an enjoyable, enriching and positive environment with diverse activities to facilitate socialisation, promoting and encouraging student health and wellbeing.
Connected: We foster community minded and engaged students by encouraging connectedness, contribution and a sense of belonging.
Tolerant: We nurture tolerance by welcoming diversity and actively encouraging cultural sensitivity, awareness and empathy.
Read more about our RESPECT values.
Our approach and frameworks
Belong, Balance, Broaden
Deakin Res is here to ensure you are happy, healthy and connected with each other, our team and the broader community.
Your student experience
Enjoy thoughtfully curated activities designed to help you level up and thrive on – in every aspect of life.
Residential Leaders
Our volunteer Residential Leaders (RLs) play an incredibly important role in our communities.
Award Winning
We’re also proud to highlight that our Deakin Res team has been awarded a number of international and local awards for its student experience and facilities.