Vale Helen Edwards

Helen Edwards, a long-time UNE lecturer in early childhood education and alumnus, passed away after illness on Sunday. Helen's association with UNE goes back to the eighties when she graduated with a Master of Education in 1988, followed by a Graduate Diploma in...

6 Gift Giving Etiquette Tips

The festive season is upon us yet again, a time when we attend seasonal events, dinner parties or special gatherings. The etiquette of gift giving might seem obvious to most people, but perhaps it’s worth reminding ourselves of some of them. Here are 6 gift giving...

The Conversation 2020 Wrap

Professor John Paterson achieved a rather unique milestone (for UNE). His article Freaky ‘frankenprawns’: ancient deep sea monsters called radiodonts had incredible vision that likely drove an evolutionary arms race was the most-read article by The...

Where to next?

Image: Peter at Masada, January 2020. Early this year, I joined my wife on a field trip to Jordan and Israel for her masters. Suspecting this would be a ‘bucket list’ experience, I enrolled in a Graduate Certificate of Divinity so that I could do the unit myself...

UNE AEC 3rs Award winner named

The Deputy-Vice Chancellor (Research), Professor Heiko Daniel, is pleased to announce Dr Natalie Morgan as the winner of the 2020 award and formally commends Dr Christopher Goatley and the infection inflammation immunity group led by Prof Natkunam Ketheesan on...