Recycle your coffee pods

A message from 'waste collection station' Judy Stott: Did you know Australia is the second highest producer of waste in the world? We produce around 650 kg per person per year. TerraCycle have now set up in Australia as of February this year. Please check out the...

Sociology Seminar Series

Abstract: Since the early 1990s, the borderlands of China have suddenly emerged as new zones of prosperity and suspicion stimulated by the momentum of China’s “opening up” policies and economic reforms. In this talk, I use China as an example to trace the emergence...

Chubu Study Tour 2015

The English Language Centre (ELC) recently farewelled 21 students from Chubu University Nagoya Japan,  after the 11th annual study program ended on March 15.  UNE’s 11 year relationship with Chubu University was formally acknowledged in November 2014 with the...

Humanities Research Seminar

A common assumption in contemporary scholarship has been that the Saudi state is primarily a construct of the twentieth century, thanks to the discovery of abundant oil wealth in the Kingdom’s eastern provinces in the late 1930s. This presentation argues that...

School of Education Seminar Series

Stephen Grono:  LYNC: Tricks we’ve found and nifty things   A mixed seminar/workshop for those who want to know a bit more about the phone on their desk, and what else it can do. The new Lync phone system is now completing its rollout across the university for all...

The Rhodes Scholarship 2016

The Rhodes Scholarship 2016 - New South Wales Tenable at the University of Oxford from September 2016 Applications close 1st September 2015 One candidate is selected for the Rhodes Scholarship for each state each year. There are also three Australia at Large Rhodes...

Humanities Research Seminar

In the popular as well as the academic imagination, political cartooning in Victorian Britain is synonymous with Punch; or, the London Charivari. Yet as recent research has highlighted, for much of its life, Punch was only one satirical publication among many...

2015 Autumn Graduation

All Graduation Ceremonies are held on campus in Armidale, on the southern lawns of Booloominbah, and they commence at 10:30am. In the event of wet weather, the decision to move the ceremonies into Lazenby Hall will be made by 8:00am on the morning of the...