Dr Ingrid Harrington, senior lecturer in UNE Inclusive Education, has always had a heart for social justice. She once dreamed of putting this into practice in law, but instead found her niche in a teaching career focused on empowering troubled youths. “My older...
“One of the most exciting aspects of academia is the way opportunities can arise out of nowhere,” says zooarchaeology PhD candidate James Roberts, whose studies have so far taken him from a master’s in the UK, to the deserts of the United Arab Emirates, to a PhD at...
“The New York Police Department hired its first female detective in 1912, but when Dorothy Uhnak joined in 1953, women were still a minority,” says UNE lecturer in writing and literary researcher Dr Lili Pâquet, who has written a book on women working in the...
Dr Frances Alter, senior lecturer in creative and performing arts education at UNE, has used “everything from cooking classes to puppet shows” to engage students – and that’s while teaching English as a second language! “I spent a year as a volunteer teacher in...
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