Relocating from Minnesota to study rivers in outback NSW, UNE physical geography PhD candidate Leah McIntosh admits she was a fish out of water. “I grew up around the water – there’s so much water in Minnesota. I loved being around it and, as a result, have always...
A fascination with myths and legends around the world has led UNE Associate Professor Liz Hale on an adventure from New Zealand, to the USA, to Armidale, in pursuit of stories. “As a child in New Zealand I loved reading myths, legends, and fairy tales,” Liz says....
UNE Associate Professor Jeanette Berman expected her collaborative research in inclusive education to be a useful resource on her home turf of Australia and New Zealand. But she and her co-authors couldn’t anticipate the extraordinary impact it would have further...
UNE’s Professor Anne Pender has dedicated years getting to know Australia’s best-loved comic actors. Awkward stage moments, biggest fears, childhood memories – there’s no topic left unturned in Anne’s meticulous and personal approach to researching Australian...
Can you teach happiness? A former school principal and UNE education PhD candidate has left his home and livelihood to find out. Kaka (who has just the one name) has always dreamt big. He overcame the challenges of his humble beginnings – he’s one of 10...
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...
Ferrying students to class and back in monsoonal rains is not an unusual job for UNE education lecturers teaching students in Nauru. But it’s one of the ways having a full-time UNE School of Education presence on the island is helping ensure local students can...
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