Professor Mara Raciti (USC) presents at World Access to Higher Education Day Australasia. https://www.ncsehe.edu.au/event/ncsehe-ephea-wahed-2021/

1. Navigating heightened risk among
low SES students in VUCA times:
What’s the next best step?
Maria Raciti
Kalkadoon-Thaniquith/Bwgcolman
Professor of Marketing, University of the Sunshine Coast
Co-Director of the Indigenous and Transcultural Research Centre
Adjunct Fellow, National Centre For Student Equity in Higher Education

2. Pandemic

3. We find ourselves today at a most peculiar junction.
What’s the next best step?

4. The post-pandemic future is bright
It’s time for optimism.
It’s time for radical creativity.

5. It’s time for…

6. Perceived risks are heightened

7. Because we now live in VUCA times

8. Time-loss
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Functional
and future
work
Uni will not lead to a job in my preferred occupation Safety or damage to possessions
Unwanted impacts on the five senses
People will think I’m “snobby”
Debt, monetary loss, unexpected costs
A waste of time, taking too long
Personal fears, negative emotions
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Financial
and
resource
Psychological
Sensory
Risk
VUCA amplifies priority groups perceived risks
Social
class
Competency
Losing motivation and study skills

9. VUCA has changed the way courses
are delivered
Wide variety of blended learning
options:
• Magic or messy?
• Choice or confusion?
• Engaging and enlightened or
homogenising and human-less?
VUCA has changed how course are delivered
Functional and future work risk

10. VUCA makes it harder to plan for future work
Functional and future work risk

11. What’s the next best step?

12. Stitching it all
together…