University of Newcastle Honorary Degree Recipients

Honorary Doctorates are the highest honour the University can bestow.

Honorary Doctorates are awarded to:

  • Honour individuals who have had a special association with one or more elements of the University, or with the University generally, other than just a member of staff of the University; and
  • Honour others who, while they have had no direct association with the University, have made distinguished contributions either to higher education or to the community generally. Such people may be well-known citizens of New South Wales or Australia generally; or distinguished alumni or other citizens of overseas countries where the University has graduates.

Doctor of Architecture

Doctor of Business

Doctor of Education

Doctor of Engineering

Doctor of Fine Arts

Doctor of Health

  • Lloyd Sansom (2006)
  • Margaret Mort (2005)

Doctor of Science

  • Brian Gilligan (2004)
  • Jeanette Rothapfel (2004)
  • Ralph Slayter (2003)
  • David Williams (2002)
  • Niched Suntornpithug (1996)
  • Donald McNair (1996)
  • Nancy Bird-Walton (1995)
  • Maxwell Maddock (1995)
  • Michael Wilford (1993)
  • Keith Morgan (1993)
  • Harold Tulloch (1992)
  • John Wilcox (1992)
  • Betty Anderson (1992)
  • Richard Gosper (1991)
  • Warren Hogan (1989)
  • John Varnum (1989)
  • James Allen (1988)
  • Norman Boardman (1988)
  • James Kirk (1988)
  • Beryl Nashar (1988)
  • Roderick Carnegie (1985)
  • John Wild (1982)
  • Ralph Stanton (1979)
  • Roger Russell (1978)
  • Howard Worner (1966)

Doctor of Letters

Doctor of Medicine

Doctor of Music

Doctor of Nursing

Doctor of University

Doctor of Laws

Doctor of Surveying

Master of Arts

  • Eric Richardson (2001)
  • James Comerford (1998)
  • Judith White (1988)
  • Peter Brock (1987)

Master of Laws

  • John Miner (1990)

Master of Letters

  • Nancy Perkins (1993)

Master of Nursing

Master of Construction Management

Master of Science

  • Cindy Hearder (2001)
  • William Evans (1999)
  • Bryan Campbell (1987)

Master of Occupational Health & Safety