Future Fit: building resilience

Commentary by Professor Mike Wilmore, Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Acting) on Goal 3 of the Future Fit strategic plan The most important thing to know about the future is that we have one. UNE acknowledges its necessary role in supporting the ongoing health and...

Welcome, Fiona Murphy

Fiona Murphy has joined UNE as Director, People and Culture, after three years in similar roles at Charles Sturt. Ms Murphy will elaborate on her role and its place in the UNE community in future Pulse newsletters; in the meantime, while she undertakes the daunting...

Future Fitting our communities

Commentary by Professor Debra Dunstan, Executive Strategy Advisor, Vice-Chancellor's Unit Our understanding of the world is shaped by our place in it. We are all members of a number of communities – townships, cultural groups, clubs, the online communities around a...

Superstars of STEM

Two UNE scientists recently named Superstars of STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths) hope to provide inspiration to a new generation of young women and help address persistent gender gaps in their fields. Biologist Dr Mary McMillan and palaeontologist...

Lamb on Agile

Dave Lamb has seen the future, and it's Agile. As Chief Scientist of the Food Agility CRC (of which UNE is a partner), Professor Lamb has been deeply immersed in the world of agile management principles that the CRC is based on. Agile principles have been around...

Remembering Bernard Swan

The founder of Peace Studies at UNE, Dr Bernard Swan, has passed away. His work and influence is remembered here by Dr DB Subedi with Dr Marty Branagan. Credit for the initiation of Peace Studies at the UNE goes to Dr. Bernard Swan, a Geographer who had specialised...

Future Fit – VC’s introduction

UNE's new strategic plan, Future Fit, will guide the University's direction over the the next decade.  It's a plan that proposes greater ambitions than just getting UNE through the next decade intact. We are re-imagining the UNE brand.   Future Fit...