Hallmarks of esteem
Externally Funded Fellowships
Australian Research Council (ARC) Future Fellowships
Professor Ros Smith | Marginalia and the early modern woman writer, 1530-1660 | 2018-2022 | $1,065,939 |
Professor David Lubans | To determining how changes in physical activity and sedentary behaviour might influence health and wellbeing in young Australians. | 2014-2018 | $800,208 |
Associate Professor Hans-Lukas Kieser | War, Violence, and Apocalyptic-Millenarianism in the Middle East: Talat Pasha and the Foundation of Modern | 2013-2017 | $790,764 |
Associate Professor Victoria Haskins | In Her Place: state intervention and Indigenous domestic service in Australia and United States, 1880-1945 | 2010-2014 | $649,102 |
Australian Research Council (ARC) Discovery Early Career Researcher Awards (DECRA)
Dr Elizabeth Roberts-Pedersen | Unquiet Minds: Psychiatry in World War Two and its aftermaths | 2016-2018 | $398,238 |
Dr David Farrugia | The Formation of Young Workers: A Multi Sited Study on the Periphery | 2016- 2018 | $350,974 |
Dr Caragh Brosnan | Complementary and Alternative Medicine Degrees: New Configurations of Knowledge, Professional Autonomy and the University | 2014-2016 | $370,369 |
Associate Professor Bronwyn Hemsley | Tweet reach: Using Twitter to Increase Information Exchange in People with Communication Disabilities | 2014-2016 | $395,220 |
Professor Ronald Plotnikoff | Physical Activity and Population | 2012-2016 | $580,910 |
National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) Professorial Fellowships
Professor David Lubans | Optimising the adoption and implementation of evidence-based physical activity interventions in schools | 2019-2023 | $724,175 |
Professor Ronald Plotnikoff | Physical Activity and Population | 2012-2016 | $580,910 |
Heart Foundation Post Doctoral Fellowship
Dr Myles Young | SHED IT Recharge - Evaluation of a scalable, gender tailored program to reduce cardiovascular risk factors in overweight and obese med with depression | 2018-2020 | $151,350 |
Members of learned academies
Australian Academy of the Humanities Fellows
The Australian Academy of the Humanities Fellowship comprises more than 500 distinguished individuals elected by their peers in recognition of the excellence and impact of their scholarship in the humanities. The Faculty of Education and Arts is proud to work with the following members:
- Professor Hilary Carey, FAHA
- Professor Lyndall Ryan, FAHA
- Professor Hugh Craig, FAHA
- Conjoint Professor Michael Ewans, FAHA
- Emeritus Conjoint Professor Cliff Hooker, FAHA
- Conjoint Professor Harold Tarrant, FAHA
- Associate Professor Rosalind Halton, Honorary Fellow
ARC college of Expert Members
- Professor Allyson Holbrook, Social Behavioural and Economic Science panel
- Professor Lyndall Ryan, Humanities and Creative Arts panel
- Professor Rosalind Smith, Humanities and Creative Arts panel
- Professor Hugh Craig, Humanities and Creative Arts panel
NHMRC Expert Panel Members
Leadership of Societies and Peak Bodies
- Dr Bill Palmer, Vice-President, Australian Linguistics Society
- Professor Cathy Coleborne, Secretary, Australasian Council of Deans of Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities (DASSH)
Editors of Scholarly Journals
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.