Image: Dr Barb Bannister, UNE Lecturer, is passionate about teaching agriculture in schools. Photo: David Elkins. Australian schools are suffering a deepening drought in agriculture teachers. While the shortage is not unique among STEM subjects, agriculture teacher...
The conference confronts the two most pressing threats to humanity and the Earth – global warming and the threat of nuclear war. “It was phenomenally difficult to get Peace Studies started during the Cold War, requiring perseverance and creative thinking from...
New interactive storybooks, and modules for social and family workers and educators are now available to support children and families where a parent is deployed or travels away for work or training, from the Early Childhood Defence Programs team. The new...
Professor Caroline Cohrssen has lived and worked in many countries, arriving at UNE after three years in Hong Kong SAR. There, the COVID-19 pandemic compelled her to approach her research a little differently, due to strict social distancing rules. That setback...
Even when dealing with the most solid of objects, UNE archaeologist Dr Alina Kozlovski loves the way history can throw up curly questions. Alina has been all over the world in pursuit of the past – she’s excavated in Tuscany, Sicily and Cyprus, and lived and worked...
Music – particularly a fascination with percussion – has always been a part of life for UNE student Craig Rabnott. But undertaking a UNE Music degree has taken Craig in some new directions – instilling an interest in acoustic-electric music and a passion for...
It took a trip to Washington for Danial Newman to find out Japan was where he wanted to be. Unsure what he wanted to do after school, but following subjects he enjoyed and thinking teaching was “a career he could enjoy”, Danial enrolled in a Bachelor of Information...
Even in her first career as a woolclasser, Master of Teaching (Secondary) graduate Rebecca Iliffe was drawn to education. After her start in shearing sheds, she was soon providing wool education to international processors, and helping farmers and producers grow...
Growing up, Calliden Hunter wanted to be a national park. Unsurprisingly, that hasn’t come to pass, but the University Medal winner has spent his successful UNE Theatre and Performance Honours year exploring what it means to be part of the environment. Calliden –...
“I think I’m like a long-distance runner who finishes their race after dark, after the marquees are packed up and everyone else has gone home.” When Sue Smith started her university studies in her early forties, not only did she feel that she had long missed the...
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