Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences news
Australia's oldest occupied Ice Age cave found at high elevation in Blue Mountains
Archaeologists from the Australian Museum, the University of Sydney and the Australian National University in collaboration with First Nations community members have unearthed 693 stone artefacts dating from the last Ice Age to the recent past. Read more.
Cogniti – an 'AI stunt double' for teachers – wins major award
A University of Sydney invention, which allows teachers to create "AI stunt doubles" to assist with their work, has been named a winner in the Australian Financial Review 2025 AI Awards. Read more.
Announcements and notices
FASS News - Issue 253 - 19 June 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
The Baur Gifts: A story of family philanthropy and rare books
The Friends of the Library warmly invite you to a special talk 'The Baur Gifts: A story of family philanthropy and rare books', celebrating 26 years of extraordinary generosity by the Baur Family to our Library.
Goal setting and wellbeing with Dr Associate Professor Sean O'Connor
Join this session to learn about setting appropriate goals for motivation, performance and personal growth
Is Exercise a Chore? Or are Chores Exercise?
Drawing on current and emerging findings from research around the potential of incidental physical activity for chronic disease prevention, this session will explore how we can achieve long-term health benefits through incidental physical activity, without needing to plan workouts, make time, join a gym, or attend a dedicated facility.
Updates and services
Latest travel safety advice and support abroad
Colleagues planning to travel on University business are reminded to regularly review DFAT advice and to connect with International SOS (ISOS), our travel risk partner, for a pre-travel briefing. ISOS can also provide assistance to colleagues while they are abroad, or you can connect with our staff counselling and coaching services from Converge International.
Updated Performance, Planning and Development Policy
The Performance, Planning and Development Policy has been updated to reflect recent feedback from across the University to better support meaningful performance conversations, clearer goal setting, and ongoing development for all staff. The updated Performance, Planning and Development Policy (pdf, 1.3MB)is now available. Learn more about what’s changed.
System logins
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- Canvas
- Citrix
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- Copilot
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- 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
- Marq (formerly Lucidpress)
- Macquarie Dictionary
- 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
- Research Profiles Management (RPM)
- Research Supervisor Connect
- 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 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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