News
- DUCK INTO ORIENTATION! Throughout Week 1 (27th Feb - 2nd March), waddle down to campus and learn how to make the most of your Campus Life this year. Look out for your Campus Duck Mascot swimming in all the FREE Orientation action. CLICK HERE FOR C... Read More
- I am sure all of you had seen the promo staff in August handing out FREE samples around campus.....YUMMO! The majority of you who sampled these quality baked freebies went straight to the Bakehouse in building 20 to get your hands on some more. If ... Read More
- Calling all budding Socceroos or those that just enjoy the game. We are holding a 5-A-Side Soccer Comp at Bankstown campus on the 3rd May. As the name suggests, you need a team of 5 and a couple of subs if you have extra players to enter. Entry forms... Read More
- Curious about how residents party at UWS Village Parramatta? Then come one, come all to UWS Village Parramatta for a night full of fun with the village people! Make lots of friends from all around the world and celebrate the end of semester!&... Read More
Social Clubs & Groups
I Heart UWS
The official branch of the larger I ♥ Uni network. Students are invited to connect with other university students and widen your network of friends at various social events, including dance parties, sporting events, fashion parades, and competitions.
Campus: UWS wide
Contact: Ivy
Email: uws@iheartuni.com
Website: www.iheartuni.com
The mUWSic Club
This club is in honour of all genres of music and will hopefully help in making UWS a more social and fun university.
Campus: Parramatta
Contact: Saryne Hanna
Email: 17005018@student.uws.edu.au
Uni Tunes
Unitunes is a club/society that offers students to share their music with other students. Unitunes will also offer learn how to dj, festival tickets and club guestlists. Unitunes offers the best for all MUSIC loving students.
Campus: Penrith
Contact: Peter Chen
Email: unitunes@hotmail.com.au
Folk Music Society
This society aims to bring musicians together who share a love of folk music, ideally with the aspiration of playing as a collective at gigs!
Campus: Bankstown
Contact: Jack Isherwood 0416 427 250
Email: J.Isherwood@uws.edu.au
JAUWS
JAUWS brings fans and gamers of anime and manga together to have fun and make new friends. Weekly screenings of anime are run on Kingswood campus. Movie outings, dinner nights, and games days are also part of the fun!
Campus: Kingswood
Contact: Sean
Email: president@jauws.org
Website: www.jauws.org
Junoon
A student group all about socialising and having fun. Enjoy movie nights, BBQs, sports and much more!
Base Campus: Parramatta
Contact: Zunaira
Email: sensationalattack@hotmail.com
Solar Car Club
Want to do something remarkable while you are at uni? How about a 3000km endurance race in a car that weighs less than a motor bike and travels over 100km/h on the same amount of power as a toaster? Let us also mention that you will be competing against about 30 other Universities from all over the WORLD. If this sounds interesting then drop us a line as we are looking for new enthusiastic volunteers to design, build, support and eventually race our own car to solar glory in 2013.
Campus: Penrith
Contact: Jay Manley
Email: members@uwssolarcar.com
Facebook: UWS Solar Car Project
PARRANOIA
Social club meeting with all fans of anime and manga. Enjoy anime screenings, games and activities, club outings, and forum chat.
Campus: Parramatta
Contact: Michelle
Email: MangakaAnimeClub_desu@hotmail.com
Website: www.parranoia.net
V4U
A social and welfare club created to bring all UWS students together, and help them to make the most of Uni life.
Campus: Parramatta
Contact: Jayesh
Email: v4uatuws@gmail.com
Facebook: V4U (Together We Achieve)
Young Unity
Young Unity is a non-profit social organisation which aims to create a better society by combining the efforts of young people.
Campus: UWS wide
Contact: Ken
Email: enquiry@youngunity.org.au
Website: www.youngunity.org.au
ACE- Action and Community for the Environment
This society aims to grow food on the Bankstown campus in a sustainable way and to foster more generally an ecological awareness across the Campus!
Campus: Bankstown
Contact: Jack Isherwood 0416 427 250
Email: J.Isherwood@uws.edu.au
FmL Society
FmL is a joint fraternity-sorority that helps students get more out of university. FmL's key focus is to assist with in-house services such as study discussion forums, career guides, and networking with peers to help members get the best out of their study and career. FmL also provides entertaining online tv, updating students on other clubs and organisations.
Campus: Parramatta
Contact: Francois Brun
Email: fbrun@fmlsociety.com
Website: www.fmlsociety.com
UWS Bike User Group
Base Campus: UWS wide
Email: uwsbug@uws.edu.au
Hawkesbury Remnants Landcare Group
Campus: Hawkesbury
Contact: Rebecca
Email: 15746753@student.uws.edu.au
Chess Club
Campus: Campbelltown, Parramatta, Penrith(Kingswood)
Email: uwscc@hotmail.com
Website: http://www.uwscc.co.nr/
UWS Chocolate Society
We're about chocolate, chocolate and more chocolate! All chocolate lovers at UWS are welcome! We aim to enrich student life at UWS.
Campus: UWS wide
Email: uwschocsoc@hotmail.com
Facebook: UWS ChocSoc (UWS Chocolate Society)
Degree
We all share a common goal - we're a here to get our Degree! As important as it is, study isn’t the only thing students come to uni for, we also come here to have fun, meet new people and learn new skills to equip us for the future. We also produce Degree˚magazine, which strengthens our community at UWS by giving students and staff of all degrees a voice.
Campus: UWS wide - however meets at Penrith (Werrington South) Campus
Website: http://smn.net.au/degree/
Cypher (Dance)
Campus: Parramatta
Contact: Ahsan
Engage
We're a group of students who want a vibrant and exciting student life on campus, including bigger and better events, clubs and societies! The potential at Campbelltown is huge, and we're making the most of uni!
Campus: Campbelltown
Email: engage.uws@gmail.com
Website: http://engage.smn.net.au/
Facebook: Engage UWS
UWS Geek Group
We're the Sci-Fi, Fantasy, Comics and Gamers club. We meet three times a week on Kingswood campus, have weekly screenings and games, run RPGs on the side and hold events such as cinema nights, Geek Week at UWS, themed parties and more.
Campus: Penrith (Kingswood)
Email: uwsgeekgroup@gmail.com
Facebook: UWS Geek Group
Genshiken
We bring together anime/manga lovers so that we can make new friends who have the same interest. We run activities for fun and to broaden our understanding of Japanese culture. Some of our activities include, anime screenings, outings to conventions and learning to cook Japanese food.
Campus: Bankstown
Contact: Sharon
Facebook: げんしけん UWS
UWS Golden Key Society
Campus: UWS wide
Email: presidentuwsgk@gmail.com
Facebook: Golden Key UWS Chapter
UWS Mahjong Society
We welcome all who have an interest in Mahjong or are you looking for a great way to meet people. Have no idea what Mahjong is? Come along and we'll teach you how! We also run a range of other 'non-mahjong' activities. We're a society for anyone who's up for some crazy fun. Meetings are held weekly and events are organised regularly.
Campus: Parramatta
Email: uws.mahjong.soc@gmail.com
Facebook: UWS Mahjong Society
UWS Strengthening Cambodian Communities
We're a non-profit, grass roots organisation that supports the village of Aranh, Siem Reap in Cambodia. The majority of families in this village live in extreme poverty, earning less than $1 per day. There is also a large sex slave trade, affecting countless women and children. We work to increase the quality of life for the Aranh locals and battle the sex slave trade that destroys so many lives.
Campus: Penrith (Kingswood)
Facebook: The UWS SCC Project
Website: UWS SCC website
World of Writingcraft (WOW)
We're a community of writers who get together once a fortnight to workshop our writing and work on our various writing goals.Members have access to our club library and are kept up to date with the latest competitions and publishing opportunities. We have a number of events during the year including professional workshops.
Campus: Penrith (Kingswood)
Email: uwswriters@hotmail.com
Philosophy Society
The purpose of the society is to discuss various philosophical issues in an informative yet entertaining fashion. Ideally we shall meet every fortnight and hopefully we shall be engaged in a wide variety of activities; this might consist of student and staff presentations, movie nights and debating competitions.
Campus: Bankstown
Contact: Jack Isherwood
Email: jackisherwood@hotmail.com or 17157357@uws.edu.au
Website: http://philosophysocietyuws.blogspot.com/
Street Dance Society
The society is about the experience of music and dance. We will hold workshops about dance, get members to parcipate in special dance classes, learn of the theory and origin of music styles and hold peer to peer jam sessions. We look to bring an awareness of dance to the group, helping people find studios, and get you on the path of dance!
Campus: Campbelltown
Contact: Alexson Nounrasi
Email: 16126594@student.uws.edu.au