The seventh annual UNE Postgraduate conference, titled “Intersections of Knowledge”, has presented some new challenges for the organising committee in 2022. With the event now embedded in the research culture at UNE, this year we had no option other than to include...
By Professor Simon Evans, Acting Vice-Chancellor A university is, in every sense, only as good as its people. We know UNE’s people are very good indeed. And we now have fresh objective evidence that we can point to. UNE’s recent recognition – your recognition – is...
By Acting Vice-Chancellor, Professor Simon Evans UNE is initiating a deep assessment and overhaul of the University’s workplace culture. Evidence and anecdote indicate that UNE’s culture has been shaken by a series of stresses from without and within. The...
Image: UNE psychologist Gwen Schumack and support dog Percy, a Brittany spaniel, whose retriever ancestry is evident in his obsession with birds. He’s been missing from campus due to COVID restrictions for a year – doggone it! – but Percy, UNE's resident...
UNE has adopted the Safe Communities Strategic Framework as a guide to furthering the University's work in ensuring a safe campus for students and staff. Pulse put a few questions to Safe Communities Program Leader, Anne Hodson, pictured. What is the Safer...
Image: Anaiwan Elder Uncle Steve Widders, flanked by players and officials, performed the Welcome to Country. The fierce rivalry between Armidale’s Narwan Eels and the Moree Boomerangs finally came to head when the two teams met in the Group 19 Grand Final at UNE’s...
As any of the graduates and guests on our Armidale campus at the weekend would have noticed: it takes a small army to make a UNE graduation ceremony the most memorable and spectacular day possible. Among those at the vanguard is Andrena Rologas, pictured. As the...
The announcement by Indonesia in early May 2022 that it was battling an outbreak of Foot-and-Mouth disease (FMD) has put Australian livestock producers, including UNE, on high alert. FMD is an exceptionally transmissible disease. There is a significant risk of FMD...
