Faculty of Humanities, Arts, Social Sciences and Education

Note by Professor Sue Saltmarsh   New Collaborative Research Fellowship Program for HASSE HASSE recently announced the introduction of a Collaborative Research Fellowship (CRF) program. In its inaugural round, the CRF Program will support one Fellowship...

Commentary by Associate Professor Nathan Wise   Britt Abraham and the First Nations Success Program I’m heartbroken at the passing of Britt Abraham, who was killed in a car accident on Sunday, 24 March. Britt was a founding academic member of UNE’s First...

Notes from Professor Sue Gregory Farewell Di Swann retired after 27 years at UNE on 14 March 2024. We wish Di well. Thank you To all those in the School of Education who processed for the O-Week Commencement session on 19 February 2024. Out and About in the...

Commentary by Professor Jane Edwards   Strengthening HASSE’s future Those of you who attended the VC budget presentation are aware of his intention to be transparent as to the challenges we face. In 2023 HASSE had 1500 fewer students enrolled across our course...

Image: Kirby Moore with her UNE Honours project, a reconstructed 1884 gown, displaying in Martindale Hall in South Australia.  A creative UNE Honours project has reclaimed a woman missing from the history books – and her grand marital home in country South...

Stepping off the plane on her first overseas trip, to Bali, Dr Jane Ahlstrand’s path was set: she fell in love with Indonesia. “It was like a sensory feast”, Jane, now a UNE lecturer in Indonesian language and culture, recalls. “The smell was a mix of incense,...