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2008 NUPSA Award Recipients

The 2008 Annual Newcastle University Postgraduate Student Association (NUPSA) Dinner was held on Friday the 14th of November 2008 at the Bella Vista Function Centre in Mayfield. Ten students from the School of Humanities and Social Science had one of their publications recognised and were awarded the 2008 School Publication Prize and $300.

For a full list of recepients click here to visit our Student & Staff Awards page   

Senior Lecturer promotions

Congratulations to the following School staff who were promoted to Senior Lecturer:

  • Alex Broom
  • Victoria Haskins
  • Jo May, and
  • Alistair Rolls

Judging for Dr Kim Cheng Boey

Dr Kim Cheng Boey has been invited to be a judge for the Commonwealth Writers' Prize for 2009, a prestigious global prize for fiction. This prize was established in 1987 and covers all 53 countries of the Commonwealth.

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Dr Kim Cheng Boey has been appointed as a judge for the Kenneth Slessor (poetry) Prize in the 2009 NSW Premier's Literary Awards.

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Foundation Chair of Theology announced

Dr John McDowell, former Cambridge researcher and current senior lecturer at the University of Edinburgh, has been appointed the Foundation Morpeth Chair of Theology at the University of Newcastle. He will join the School in January 2009.

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Recent promotion outcomes

Congratulations to: Professor Hilary Carey, Professor Linda Connor and Associate Professor Hilary Carey.

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First issue of Swamp published

An online Creative Writing magazine produced the School's Creative Writing Postgraduate Workshop.

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New BA & BSocSci Honours Scholarships

The School is offering up to 10 scholarships of $2000 to assist students undertaking honours in one of the discipline areas offered by the School.

Grant News

ARC Discover Grant funding

Congratulations to the following staff who have successfully obtained ARC Discovery Grant funding in the current round of funding: Harold Tarrant, Mel Gray, Debbie Plath and Stephen Webb. Click on the following titles to learn more about the respective grants.

$450 000 NHMRC Grant Awarded

Congratulations to Dr Alex Broom and colleagues on receiving a major grant to investigate complementary and alternative medicine among mid-age women.

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Highlights

Associate Professor Alison Ferguson has been awarded a University Career Enhancement Fellowship for Academic Women. The research fellowship will take effect for 12 months starting in July this year.

A critically acclaimed biography of French military and political leader Napoleon by historian Dr Philip Dwyer has taken out top honours at this year's National Biography Awards. For more information click here. To view Sydney Morning Herald article click here

Associate Professor Alison Ferguson has been awarded the Vice-Chancellor's Award for Supervisor of the Year. For more information click here

Dr Alistair Rolls awarded the University's Award for Research Excellence for his paper: 'Throwing Caution to a French Wind: Peter Cheney's Success Overseas in 1945', Australian Journal of French Studies (43:1, 2006, pp 35-47). For more information  click here

Dr Christo Moskovsky awarded a Vive-Chancellor's Citation for Outstanding Contributions to Student Learning. For more information click here

Dr Josephine May & Dr DIanne Osland both awarded prestigious NSW Quality Teacher Awards (2007), for more information click here

Congratulations to Rebecca Horodecki (Sociology & Anthropology, BSocSci Hons) - University medallist, Anne Walker (Bachelor of Social Work) - University medallist, and to Alexandra Clare Hunting (Bachelor of Speech Pathology) and Erin Beard (Bachelor of Social Work) - Faculty medallists. For a list of recipients of School Prizes recently awarded at the annual School Awards Ceremony, please click here.

Patrick Cullen, a PhD student in English, has had a short story published for the 3rd consecutive year in the Best Australian Stories 2007 book, edited by Robert Drewe, one of Australia's most acclaimed authors. His work, The Easy Way Out, examines the complexities of marriage and family. It tells the story of a husband's infidelity through the eyes of the unfaithful husband's neighbours.

MA graduate, Amelia Fielden, has published 8 books since graduating in 2005, and is working on 2 more. She was awarded a Columbia University Prize for Japanese Literary Translation, and was invited as a guest poet to the poetry reading ceremony at the Imperial in Tokyo on New Year's Day, 2007.

Dr Christopher Pollnitz has been invited to address the D.H. Lawrence Society at the Eastwood Public Library on 14 May 2008. The topic of his address will be 'D.H. Lawrence and the Invasion of Iraq: Lawrence's Forgotten Poems about a Forgotten War'.

Anne Brown, PhD Candidate in Creative Writing wins ABC Regional Short Story Competition.

Academic Women in Leadership Program 2008. Congratulations to Bernice Mathisen, Pam Nilan & Debbie Plath on successfully obtaining a place in the program.

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