• Date: Friday 4 July 2025 at 6:00pm
• Location: Newcastle (Callaghan)

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Join us for a day and night of fun and be stunned by our Primary Education students in The Ed Revue – an entertaining performance following the journey of a school preparing for a musical.

• Date: Saturday 5 July 2025 at 12:00am
• Location: Newcastle (City)

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Welcome Week is a great opportunity to find out what you need to know about university life and being a University of Newcastle student!

Newcastle Comedy Festival returns for 2025 with a massive lineup of acts taking over the Con for the month of July.

• Date: Friday 11 July 2025 at 12:00am
• Location: Newcastle (City)

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Get ready for a fun-filled school holiday workshop where you'll learn all about creating cinematic sounds for movies and videos!

July Graduation Ceremonies – Celebrating 60 Years of Excellence Congratulations on completing your studies! This incredible milestone deserves to be celebrated with your family, friends, and fellow graduates.In 2025, the University of Newcastle proudly marks its 60th anniversary.

Immerse yourself in our stress management training program designed to help students build practical skills to manage stress as well as challenging thoughts and emotions.

Learn how to sequence, tweak, loop and jam your way to becoming a live electronic music producer.

Celebrating our next generation of jazz musicians. Five young finalists will be chosen to perform a program of jazz piano pieces with the chance to win $5000 (1st prize) or $2500 (2nd prize) as part of the first ever Jacob

• Date: Saturday 19 July 2025 at 7:00pm
• Location: Newcastle (City)

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All new and current students are invited to join us for Welcome Week expos during Week 1 of Semester 2!

Join us for an expert panel on the Circular Economy!

As everyday life has been digitalised, more and more of the things we do, like and consume are being automated.

• Date: Wednesday 30 July 2025 at 3:00pm

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Join us for a spirited and entertaining showdown as students and staff switch sides in a debate that dares to question the status quo. In this year’s “Student vs Staff Debate,” we ask: Is the way we learn stuck in

• Date: Friday 1 August 2025 at 5:30pm
• Location: Newcastle (Callaghan)

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A captivating regional tour celebrating the power and beauty of choral music.

• Date: Friday 1 August 2025 at 7:00pm
• Duration: 2 hours
• Location: Newcastle (City)

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Are your job application documents working for you? Writing an effective resume, cover letter or statement addressing the selection criteria can be a tricky process! Come along to this bootcamp we will set you in the right direction to develop

• Date: Tuesday 5 August 2025 at 2:15pm

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The biggest student party of the year is back! Get ready for an unforgettable Autonomy Day as we throw the ultimate dress-up party to celebrate 60 years of the University of Newcastle. Join us at the newly refurbished Bar on

We are thrilled to welcome Dr. Karl for an unforgettable National Science Week event where he will delve into the weird, wonderful, and mind-blowing world of science.

Do you dread public speaking? You’re not alone! This workshop provides a supportive space to develop the skills you need to present with confidence.

• Date: Monday 11 August 2025 at 5:30pm
• Location: Newcastle (Callaghan)

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In this workshop we will identify tips and tricks to help you get organised, build sustainable routines and reduce overwhelm. Come along to share ideas with your peers and set yourself up for a great semester. Lunch on us.

This panel shares some of the findings of the New Possibilities project - supported by the ARC and bringing together researchers and young people working on youth climate advocacy and activism in Australia.

• Date: Wednesday 20 August 2025 at 3:00pm
• Duration: 2 hours

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Band Comp is back for 2024 and is bigger than ever! Band Comp is open to all students and all genres, with new categories this year for soloists and duos, new bands, as well as established artists. You could win

• Date: Thursday 21 August 2025 at 12:00am

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Higher Degree by Research students are making breakthrough discoveries and solving the world’s most formidable problems. The HDR Student Festival will feature a range of conference-style activities, as well as University-wide events to showcase the excellence and innovation of our

• Date: Monday 25 August 2025 at 9:00am
• Location: Newcastle (Callaghan), Newcastle (City), Ourimbah, Q Building, NU Space

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Immerse yourself in our stress management training program designed to help students build practical skills to manage stress as well as challenging thoughts and emotions.

This year's 3-Minute Thesis competition and Visualise Your Thesis competition converge for a joint University finals event at Bar on the Hill! Come see our thirteen 3MT finalists perform live for the audience and judges, as well as screenings of

These zoom workshops are available for students who are undertaking health and allied-health courses, who are on rural placements, or away from home undertaking their placements. Learn skills to help navigate the challenges of placement and apply to other areas

Are your job application documents working for you? Writing an effective resume, cover letter or statement addressing the selection criteria can be a tricky process! Come along to this bootcamp we will set you in the right direction to develop

• Date: Wednesday 3 September 2025 at 11:15am

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Grab a bargain at the early bird hour of 4pm Friday 12 September! Join us for the 2025 University Book Fair. The fair hosts an assortment of rare and collectible books, making it an unmissable occasion for every book lover.

Come along and build your own toolkit to help you manage time, tasks and procrastination in the busyness of mid semester. Learn from each other and enjoy lunch provided by Student Wellbeing.

Explore how contemporary discourses of wellness are aligned with the enactments and dynamics of everyday politics, and their consequences.

• Date: Wednesday 24 September 2025 at 3:00pm
• Duration: 2 hours

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Are your job application documents working for you? Writing an effective resume, cover letter or statement addressing the selection criteria can be a tricky process! Come along to this bootcamp we will set you in the right direction to develop

• Date: Thursday 25 September 2025 at 2:15pm

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This three day event will give you a taste of the cutting-edge research that is going on in the Centre for Organic Electronics (COE) labs, highlighting the advantages of considering a career in research.

These presentations contribute towards rethinking a politics of the future by exposing where power lies and how it moves in and through us all through our proximities to different forms of matter.

• Date: Wednesday 8 October 2025 at 7:00pm
• Duration: 2 hours

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Are your job application documents working for you? Writing an effective resume, cover letter or statement addressing the selection criteria can be a tricky process! Come along to this bootcamp we will set you in the right direction to develop

• Date: Monday 13 October 2025 at 11:15am

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The end of semester is a stressful time. Join us to brainstorm with your peers’ ways to get over the line and finish the year feeling strong. We’ve got lunch covered!

This seminar presents work that shatters the false distinction between nature and culture and troubles lay perceptions of human practices as separate from the apparent wilds of nature.

• Date: Wednesday 5 November 2025 at 3:00pm
• Duration: 2 hours

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Presented by Ensemble Offspring, this event features composers from the Ngarra-Burria: First Peoples Composers program.

• Date: Saturday 8 November 2025 at 7:00pm
• Location: Newcastle (City)

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This panel discussion traces the contemporary dynamics of young people’s image cultures, foregrounding their own imaging practices as part of the broader social media landscape shaping identity and self-presentation.

• Date: Wednesday 19 November 2025 at 5:00pm
• Duration: 90mins

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