University of New England (UNE) researchers have released an interactive digital tool enabling hundreds of thousands of visitors each year to Port Arthur, Tasmania, to experience the sites and stories of its convict past in a new way. The new digital mapping tool...
Jason Stoessel, Senior Lecturer, UNE Music: "I had thought during most of my school years that I would pursue a career in science or engineering. Only towards the end of my schooling did it dawn on me that a career in music was not beyond my grasp. Despite a...
Imagining an alternate history where European colonisers were defeated in their attempt to colonise Tasmania has earned UNE student Dylan van den Berg a place in this year’s prestigious Queensland Premier’s Drama Award shortlist. Dylan, a Canberra-based actor and...
When she’s creating music, you are just as likely to find vocalist, musician and UNE music lecturer Dr Donna Hewitt in the back shed as in the music room. “For the past 10 years, I’ve been developing alternate controllers for music performance and, more recently,...
UNE classics lecturer Dr Megan Daniels has a fascination for the ancient world and bringing it to life for her students. "I try to experiment with one new [teaching] approach each trimester ... I’m especially excited to start digitising some of the collections at...
In 2016, 1.4 million students in the Philippines entered a Grade 11 class for the first time in the country’s history. In 2017, 1.2 million of these students enrolled in Grade 12. Another first. These were extraordinary milestones in an ambitious plan to modernise...
A group of University of New England (UNE) education students will gain a fresh perspective on Australian education next month, when they head to Bhutan for a funded short-term study experience. Bhutan is the Himalayan kingdom best known for implementing Gross...
Defence families and their educators will have extra support to help young children cope with the emotional stress of having a parent away on deployment or training, with the development of targeted resources underway. University of New England (UNE) early...
UNE Adjunct Professor Nick Reid has spent a lifetime chasing and unravelling the mysteries of language. It’s a fascination that could have taken him anywhere in the world, but Nick has found the most extraordinary insights could be gained at his own front door....
A short report by Jennifer Mae Hamilton Driving to Groundswell on the weekend felt like I was in a disaster movie or the end times. Maybe both. A hot and powerful westerly blew like nothing I’d ever witnessed before. Dust was blocking out the sun and masking the...
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