360 Review

Thank you to everyone for the time and effort contributed to the 360 Review of courses and units in HASSE.

We continue to consolidate our offerings so that our staff cohort/resource and unit and course offerings are balanced. Since 2018 we have reduced the number of units across HASSE by 25%. However, we still offer a number of non-core units with low enrolments, some with only two or three students enrolled each trimester, and repeated units which are not necessary to run twice. We need to further reduce the number of low enrolment units, especially at the 100 level, and refresh our existing offerings while exploring new opportunities through adding majors and new courses.

Clearly some of this development requires resource we currently do not have, so please be aware there is an ongoing discussion about the resources needed, and how these resources are funded.

New Associate Dean for Research Professor, Sue Saltmarsh

I am delighted to welcome the new Associate Dean for Research in HASSE Professor Sue Saltmarsh. The ADR role is crucial to building and maintaining HASSE’s research capacity, especially with regards strengthening the confidence and contribution of mid and early career researchers and building connections within and beyond UNE. My expectation is that you will welcome her to the role and that everyone applying for grants will use the resource and affordances of the Faculty Research Office.

Sue is an interdisciplinary researcher with a background in sociological and cultural studies of education, childhood and children’s literature and her expertise in qualitative methodologies includes ethnography, social semiotics and discourse analysis. Her scholarship is informed by cultural theory, most notably in the work of Michel de Certeau, and poststructuralist theories of discourse, power and subjectivity.

Sue has conducted funded research totalling more than $2M, across a range of educational settings and community contexts in Australia, Asia and North America. Her current studies focus on relationships between parents and schools during periods of family crisis; on children and conflict in culturally diverse early childhood settings; and on the ways that national and global events and crises are implicated in social constructions of childhood and children’s lived experience.

Universities Accord

For those interested in the forthcoming changes in Higher Education in Australia look no further than the Conversation series on Universities Accord Big Ideas https://theconversation.com/au/search?q=Universities+Accord+big+ideas&sort=relevancy&language=en&date=all&date_from=&date_to=

Email etiquette at UNE

Did you know that UNE has email rules? For example:

• Begin every message with an appropriate greeting.
• Finish every message with an appropriate salutation and then your signature details.

Please review here –

https://www.une.edu.au/current-students/support/it-services/email/email-guidelines

Annual Leave

I enjoyed my recent annual leave break and returned very refreshed. I am grateful to Associate Professor Nathan Wise for acting as Dean while I was away. I encourage you all to discuss taking annual leave with your supervisor during PPDR.

Thank you Sally

Ms Sally Connah has been the Faculty of HASSE’s Business Relationship Manager for the past number of years. She is moving to a more senior position in People & Culture at UNE. I take this opportunity to thank Sally for her work with us. She will be missed.

Celebrations

For our Muslim colleagues in HASSE, we trust you had a celebratory Eid. Wishing you a belated Eid Mubarak.