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Three FASS disciplines in global top 50 in the THE subject rankings
The University of Sydney continues to excel in the latest Times Higher Education subject rankings with six disciplines in the global top 50. Read more.
Announcements and notices
FASS News - Issue 265 -5 December 2025
Latest news from the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences.
2025 FASS Newsletter submission and publishing deadlines
Content requests and updates
Who to contact for website and intranet sites maintenance requests and AEM access.
This is a list of University site administrators/webmasters and the websites they administer.
New Partnership Hub
The Central External Engagement Portfolio has recently launched a new Partnership Hub to help university staff access support for promoting themselves and the University as a partner of choice.
News and events
Building wellbeing in 2025
Explore the What’s on Wellbeing 2025 calendar and discover a wealth of events and learning and development opportunities for you to participate in across the year.
Popular FASS Systems
- Arts Explorer (needs VPN off campus)
- Sydney Curriculum
- How to guides for Sydney Curriculum Outlines
- Search for previous FASS outlines (2016-2019) - (log in required)
- Results Processing System (needs VPN off campus) (RPS)
- SharePoint 365
- Swift Digital
-FASS Exam QA
Events
A Beautiful Mosaic? Why Multiculturalism
While multiculturalism can present challenges, its benefits far outweigh its potential disadvantages. This panel discussion will see speakers address these topics to discern what Australia needs to do in order to reap the benefits of multiculturalism.
Creative histories: artists in the archives
This panel discussion, co-presented with the Discipline of History at the University of Sydney, will bring together historians and artists to explore what art can offer us in creative histories.
Adaptation finance workshop
This workshop offers you the chance to explore new avenues for multidisciplinary research in adaptation finance. On the day, we will hear from you about your current work and research interests, form clusters of researchers with common interests, and identify new projects to advance.
Sydney Ideas – A matter of life and tech
Dive into the shared story between the humanities and technology and learn valuable lessons about how to embrace both.
Updates and services
Applications open for SPARK Sydney 2026
This is to support up to six high-potential teams with promising technologies, to advance therapeutic, vaccine and drug-discovery innovations.
Share your feedback on the draft Modern Slavery Policy
Submit your feedback by Friday 15 May to help strengthen our approach to identifying and addressing modern slavery risks for our community and supply chains.
Share your feedback on the draft Leave Policy
Submit your feedback by Tuesday 19 May to help ensure our staff leave provisions continue to be applied in a way that supports wellbeing, flexibility and the diverse needs of our workforce.
Closure of Ross Street motorcycle parking area on Camperdown Campus from 30 April
This is to allow space for the site compound supporting the construction of the A01 Teaching and Learning Hub.
System logins
- Academic Planning & Development (AP&D)
- Automation & Innovation Hub
- CMS - AEM
- Campus Assist Online
- Canvas
- Citrix
- Concur
- Contractor Safety Management System (CSMS)
- Copilot
- Disability Academic Plan Portal
- Dimensions
- Docusign
- Email Office 365
- EmmaHQ
- eNotebooks
- Event calendar
- Exams portal
- External Engagement CRM
- File Sender (large file transfer)
- Finance EPM
- Finance Salary Planning EPM
- IRMA
- Lecture recording
- LinkedIn Learning
- Macquarie Dictionary
- Maps (Campus Maps)
- myHRonline
- MyLab
- My Library account
- myResearch Ethics
- Office 365 Portal
- Online Teaching Allocations (OTA)
- Password management (Okta)
- Payments to the University
- PeopleSoft financials
- Policy Register
- Power BI
- Publish Partner
- Qualtrics
- Records Online
- REDCap
- Research Data Management Planning
- Research Education Candidature System (RECS)
- Research Professional
- Riskware
- Room bookings (resource booker)
- SEAMS
- SensusAccess document conversion
- Service Portal
- ServiceNow Client
- SPIRE
- Special consideration and arrangements
- Student Survey System
- Sydney Curriculum
- Sydney Insights (formerly Insights Hub)
- Sydney Profile Manager
- Sydney Student
- SydneyFMS (Facility Management System)
- Timesheets
- Timetabling
- UniBuy
- Viva Engage (Yammer)
- Workday
- Workday Learning (formerly CareerPath)
- Workday learning (formerly CareerPath) for academic affiliates
- Zoom
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