Comment by Associate Professor Jill Fielding Hard to believe we are a quarter of the way into the year already and a lot is going on in the research space. I have covered a few of the key happenings below. Mini-ERA 2023 exercise The recent...
Comment by Professor Jane Edwards Congratulations to UNE alumnus Premier-elect Minns! I was delighted to learn that Premier-elect Chris Minns is a UNE graduate, successfully completing the Bachelor of Arts. Still banging on about the...
For PhD history graduate Helen Monro, not knowing where her studies would lead was not a hindrance to getting started. But it has meant she has uncovered lots of surprises along the way – including her own value as a historian. Helen’s interest in social...
Above all, it was an email from her unit coordinator after her first trimester of study that spurred on history graduate, Lisa Bell. Asking whether she was being ‘too ambitious’ taking on a higher-level subject, Dr Andrew Piper wrote back to assure her:...
A series of e-books developed to support children in defence families, stemming from UNE PhD research, has been named the joint winner of this year's Council for the Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences awards for Distinctive Work for 2022. “My PhD gathered the...
Image: UNE Music's Dr Alana Blackburn and Executive Director of the Coffs Harbour Regional Conservatorium, Patrick Brearley, at the launch of the music education partnership. A new partnership between UNE Music and the Coffs Harbour Regional...
Images: Caiti D'Gluyas in research mode; with new baby, Felix. Submitting a PhD can be a little like giving birth. Just ask archaeology student Caiti D’Gluyas, who recently had the surreal experience of doing both on the same day. For Caiti, it was the...
Even from the lush surrounds of England, the drought and bushfires consuming NSW in 2019 kept creeping into Niamh Wood’s creative writing. Now, she’s exploring the impacts and everyday realities of climate change in a collection of fairy tale adaptations for her...
When Rhema graduates with a UNE Associate Degree in Teaching, she will be the first Nauruan in UNE’s Pacific Education Program with an ICT and computer studies specialisation. It’s no easy task in a country with an intermittent internet connection and little in the...
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...
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