2014

Dr Amy Maguire discusses renewed calls for Northern Ireland to leave the UK in The Conversation

UON student Ren Allan is about to embark on this year's Aurora Indigenous Scholars International Study Tour. Along with 17 other high achieving Indigenous students from around Australia, Ren will be able to experience what postgraduate study would be like at a prestigious overseas institution.

A University of Newcastle behavioural scientist, who has been investigating ways to address childhood obesity rates in Australia, was one of only five Australians selected to attend a Young Leaders Forum in Japan this week.

As a recipient of the MADE scholarship from the Sydney Opera House, third-year UoN civil engineering student Nicholas Werrett is one of just five Australian students set to experience a unique multidisciplinary cultural exchange.

After months of detailed development work and negotiation, we are pleased to announce that the University of Newcastle Enterprise Agreement (EA) has been finalised with the bargaining team.

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.