News and events

The Sexual Harms and Medical Encounters Project with Birkbeck University of London has a postdoctoral research position available.

Dr Julie McIntyre, an environmental historian and interim Director of the Centre for 21st Century Humanities, recently spent 3 months at the Shields Library, University of California in Davis to trace binational innovations in modernising wine production as part of the Fulbright Scholarship she was awarded.

Professor Philip Dwyer, Director of the Centre for the Study of Violence will give a public lecture at Trinity College Dublin, as part of the 'Out of the Ashes' Lecture Series.

As the annual Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras begins this week, University of Newcastle criminologist, Dr Justin Ellis, reflects on the cost of the controversial policing of the 2013 Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras Festival.

PhD student Tanika Koosmen has been awarded the inaugural Odyssey Travel Scholarship.

School of Creative Industries lecturer and Centre for 21st Century Humanities member, Dr Helen English will join ABC Radio Newcastle Mornings presenter Kia Handley in a monthly radio interview about her research that is focused on understanding the benefits of engagement with creative activities, such as in music, dance or art, for older members of society.

The University of Newcastle’s criminology program has contributed to the Waiting for Equality Exhibition currently on display at Watt Space Gallery until March 4.

Director of the Centre for the Study of Violence, Professor Philip Dwyer has co-edited the four-volume Cambridge World History of Violence, which is the first collection of its kind to look at violence across different periods of human history and different regions of the world.

The GLAMX Lab offers the opportunity for students to learn hands-on skills to students and increase their employability.

George Gittoes exhibition documents world's conflicts.