October 2014

With the opening of Cirkopolis at the Melbourne International Arts Festival this week, Dr Gillian Arrighi, a Senior Lecturer in the School of Creative Arts, looks at the evolution of circus.

A visiting academic with UON's Centre for the History of Violence, Professor Pieter Spierenburg joins The Conversation's series on the history of violence.

Professor Trevor Waring AM, former University of Newcastle Chancellor, was made an Honorary Fellow at the recent Australian Psychological Society's annual conference.

Compassion and care in a changing world is on the agenda this week as UON hosts the 3rd Asia-Pacific International Conference on Qualitative Research in Nursing, Midwifery and Health at Newcastle City Hall.

Dr Kit Messham-Muir, a Senior Lecturer in the School of Creative Arts at the University of Newcastle (UON), looks at the astonishing work of Belgian artist Wim Delvoye.

Led by the UON's Professor Julie Byles and UQ's Professor Gita Mishra, the Australian Longitudinal Study on Women's Health has found that young Australian women are fatter, fitter and more fraught today than they were in the mid-'90s.

The University of Newcastle has been awarded three grants from the Endangered Languages Documentation Programme (ELDP), UK, to assist in the documentation of endangered Pacific languages.