UNE students have the run of the Walkleys

When Australia’s leading regional journalists converge in February to discuss the future of regional journalism in Australia, four of UNE’s brightest media and communications students will be taking over the news desk to package and broadcast all of the event’s...

Walkley Regional Journalism Summit - 10 February

“Be tenacious, don’t give up”

“When dealing with controversial and uncomfortable subjects, sometimes raising the conversation and getting people talking is all part of it.”   UNE Master of Arts student Kate Bonney knows a thing or two about being courageous in storytelling. Conditioned to...

The film crew for UNE Mater of Arts student Kate Bonney's film Waiyirri, assemble in the arid Australian landscape.

NSW Farm Crime survey findings presented to police

Key findings from the NSW Farm Crime Survey into the impacts and perceptions of farm crime are coming to light, with the survey due to close at the end of 2020.  Following a strong response from over 500 farmers across NSW, Centre for Rural Criminology...

The NSWPF Rural Crime Prevention Team and invited guests at the NSWPF Rural Crime State Conference 2020, Dr Kyle Mulrooney, Dr Alistair Harkness, DI Cameron Whiteside and Dr Glenn Porter at the NSWPF Rural Crime State Conference dinner

Mapping Australia’s past

Image: The Hobart Convict Penitentiary, a famous relic of Tasmania's past A coding system being developed by UNE historians and archaeologists will open new avenues for exploring the people and places of Australia’s past. Project co-leader UNE Adjunct Professor...

Exterior of an old convict gaol at Port Arthur, Tasmania

Ghosts, the afterlife and a brave new novel

From a PhD thesis to a brave new novel, local author Sophie Masson’s upcoming book release, ‘The Ghost Squad’ continues to take on an exciting life of its own. Known and loved around Australia particularly for her children’s books, Sophie says the unique process...

Local author Sophie Masson surrounded by bookshelves in a library, cover art of Sophie's upcoming novel, 'The Ghost Squad'

PhD “The best time of my life”

Used to the heavily populated streets of Bangladesh, UNE Peace Studies graduate Shafi Md Mostofa recalls he was struck by the quietness of Armidale in winter when he arrived to begin his PhD three and a half years ago.    “There was no one around...

Portrait image of Shafi Mostofa
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