Professional Team Award Finalists
Awarded to a team which may consist of either a work unit team or individuals from different work units whose collaboration has produced an outstanding contribution.
Early Entry Program Team
David Donnelly - Student Central, Kellie Masters - Student Central, Bernadette McTeare - Future Students Communications and Engagement, Belinda Rose - Future Students Communications and Engagement, Rob Brooks - Student Central, Dr Ben Shelton - Student Central, Lloyd Blaxland - Strategy, Planning and Performance, Kate Sobb - Student Central, Emily Middleton - Student Central, Simon Bush - Future Students Communications and Engagement
In response to significant competitive pressures in the domestic student recruitment market, this cross-divisional team collaborated to send a record number of undergraduate offers through our University's first Early Entry Program. Navigating a new system, new data analyses, and 15 versions of communications, the team sent more than 10,000 offers to applicants with a 71% acceptance rate. This is nearly double the historical number of offers sent ahead of Semester 1.
Legal Contract Upgrade
Renee Hal, Kassie McAlear, Kate Miller, and Daisy Davis - Legal and Compliance
The Legal team, led by Renee, Kassie, Kate and Daisy, has undertaken a significant amount of work throughout 2023 to upgrade and improve the Legal contract template suite, including to: reflect the requirements of our University's ever increasing legislative compliance obligations; reflect feedback resulting from cross unit collaboration and market insights from previous contract negotiations; and implement improvements to the user experience, such as providing for electronic execution.
Industry Open Day Team
Melissa Moore - Learning and Teaching, Nicola Snell - Learning and Teaching, Sharni Knight - Learning and Teaching, Renee Butcher - Office of the PVC Industry and Engagement, Emily Keating - Office of the PVC Industry and Engagement, Charlotte Ross - Future Students Communications and Engagement, Rowan Stevenson - Learning and Teaching
A collaboration between the Careers and Employability team and the Office of the PVC Industry Engagement team, the first ever University of Newcastle Industry Open Day hosted more than 300 industry, community and government partners from over 170 local organisations at Callaghan campus. The mini-conference style event included panel discussions, networking opportunities and keynote addresses with a focus on strengthening existing connections and forging new partnerships to add value to our communities.
The University of Newcastle acknowledges the traditional custodians of the lands within our footprint areas: Awabakal, Darkinjung, Biripai, Worimi, Wonnarua, and Eora Nations. We also pay respect to the wisdom of our Elders past and present.