Literacy resource up for a publishing award  

A new teacher resource co-authored by UNE’s Dr Helen Harper to help students engage with the world of storytelling has been nominated for a prestigious education publishing award. UNE School of Education’s Dr Helen Harper, says the nominated book, Teaching with...

Portrait image of Helen Harper in front of a bookshelf

Language and the law

In the late 1980s, a convicted Aboriginal man, who had always protested his innocence, was released and compensated by the government for seven years of wrongful imprisonment. He had been convicted on the basis of a typed ‘confession’ which he claimed was not what...

A man offers a document and pen across the table to another man with clasped hands.

Online OnCountry exhibition to launch for NAIDOC Week

Artwork: Ngaaru (Water) by Brentyn Lugnan, 61 x 91.5cm, ink and paint on canvas, 2019. 'Online OnCountry' is a new-concept online gallery that will showcase the work of five professional Aboriginal artists from across NSW.  Emerging as a response to the...

Painting using contemporary and traditional Aboriginal techniques. The painting features a sinuous serpent-like ribbon of green and blue, and egg-like shapes, representative of water.

Pursuing a passion for history

Our thirst for knowledge often begins at university, but sometimes strands of that curiosity can be traced all the way back to our childhood.  “I was first exposed to British and European history as a 7-year-old many years ago, and that experience has provided...

UNE history student Nanette Reid stands in front of historic ruins on her travels around Asia.

Rural criminologist Alistair Harkness joins UNE

When criminologist Dr Alistair Harkness decided to focus his work on the impacts of crime on farmers and rural communities, it was “not a crowded field”. In fact, he was one of two criminologists to pave the way in this specialty field (along with UNE’s Elaine...

Portrait image of criminologist Dr Alistair Harkness

Jess finds her voice in regional theatre

A frustration with regional theatre productions could have seen UNE theatre studies student Jess Lamb run back to the city. Instead, she became a published playwright. Her first play, Rockpocalypse, written for her Master of Applied Theatre Studies at UNE, has been...

Smiling portrait image of Jess Lamb with blurred background

A window to ancient worlds

As a UNE history student, Jackson Shoobert thought he was pretty familiar with the objects and cabinets in UNE’s Museum of Antiquities. But, catapulted into the world of 3D scanning, he’s on a whole new multidimensional journey into the past – or perhaps, the...

UNE history graduate Jackson Shoobert wears gloves in a computer lab environment as he prepares to upload images of an ancient vase artefact onto an online platform seen on a computer screen.
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