Research impacting our communities

Australian universities are eagerly awaiting the outcomes on the national research quality and impact assessment exercise.  And it has been a long wait. UNE’s Excellence in Research for Australia (ERA) submission was finalised in May 2018, and the Research...

Emergency management at UNE

Theron King is UNE's Emergency Management coordinator, but what does this mean? Pulse had a quick chat with Theron to learn more about his role. What does your role entail? As the emergency management coordinator, my day to day role is to develop policies and...

Vale Max Lawson

Former staff member Max Lawson passed away on 26 January, at the age of 81. He was an academic in the Faculty of Education, teaching in the history of education and was one of the founders of Peace Studies at UNE.  Max retired in the late 1990’s, pursuing...

Best thesis prize for UNE lecturer

Lecturer in Clinical Placements (Pharmacy), Anna Barwick, won the Outstanding Oral presentation in Pharmacy Education prize for her UQ Master of Clinical Research titled ‘Professional identity and empathy in undergraduate pharmacy students’ at an annual...

Australia Day 2019 Honours list

Congratulations to all UNE alumni recognised in the Australia Day honours list this year. The complete list:  UNE Alumni - Australia Day 2019 Honours List       Professor Ross Raymond Large Officer (AO) in the General Division For distinguished...

Meet Connie the Cassowary

The UNE Natural History Museum’s latest addition, a Southern Cassowary, Casuaris casuaris johnsonii, arrived in Armidale in October and had been patiently waiting for a name. Last month, the UNE Discovery team kicked off a naming competition and we are pleased to...