Sunday September 17 is Open Day at the University of Tasmania’s Hobart campuses, with interactive and informative activities for anyone who is interested in studying at university.
Open Day provides a feel for uni life. Academics and current students will be on our campuses to welcome all potential students, whether they are set to enrol soon, working out what to study at uni, or simply curious about what the future could hold.
The Sandy Bay campus will be alive with food trucks, hands-on activities and tours of learning spaces. Information tables will be set up for scholarships, student accommodation, using our libraries, student wellbeing, learning abroad, clubs and societies and a host of other services.
In the CBD, the Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies, the Medical Science Precinct, the Hedberg, the Behavioural Lab in the KPMG building, and the Art School in Hunter Street will be open and running activities. Free buses will run between Sandy Bay and CBD sites.
On social media, Sarah and Ella Fitzpatrick, also known as @thefitzytwins, will be capturing the day on Tik Tok. The twins are University of Tasmania Medicine students and their very popular social media side hustle, with 100,000 followers, is taking Hobart to the world.
Some of the day’s activities include:
Sandy Bay Campus
- The Stress Free Zone, a one-stop shop for all questions on the alternative entry pathways to university regardless of educational background or ATAR. The Stress Free Zone celebrates the fact that university is for everyone.
- Learn about the ways in which staff, students and community members are leading in sustainability and contributing to our No 1 global ranking for climate action against the UN Sustainability Development Goals
- Player signings, activities, games and merchandise with the Hobart Hurricanes cricket team
- Take flight with mini-drones from the School of Geography, Planning and Spatial Sciences in a wetlands mapping activity
- Discover how sociology tackles housing crises and social issues.
- Grab a mocktail at the Business Bar and chat to experts, current students and graduates about your business ideas, marketing challenges and studying at university.
Medical Science Precinct, corner of Campbell and Liverpool streets
- Join PhD students from the Menzies Institute for Medical Research and early-career researchers on a tour of world-class medical research facilities. Hear about your tour guide’s research and career path.
- Delve into brain science with the Wicking Dementia Research and Education Centre. Learn about brain anatomy and help us research dementia in Tasmania.
Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies, Castray Espl, Battery Point
- Join in a fish dissection, virtually
- Experience Ice Blink, a video created to engage your senses as you cross the Roaring Forties, Furious Fifties and Screaming Sixties, and move through the pack ice
- Test your ID skills with our marine mammal skulls, and more
KPMG building, Melville St
- Visit the Tasmanian Behavioural Lab and learn how behavioural insights create positive change for Tasmanians through research, teaching, and training..
The Hedberg, Campbell Street
- Join a tour of this beautiful space where our students and staff create, rehearse and perform outstanding music and theatre
Children’s University activities will take place on each campus.
Hobart Open Day will run from 10am to 2pm. The Launceston Open Day will be held on Sunday October 1.
Details of all activities for Hobart Open Day are available here.
Media contact: Miranda Harman 0427 199 562
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University of Tasmania
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