May 2015

Professor Joyce Canaan, Professor of Sociology at Birmingham City University, kicked off the CEEHE's Seminar Series for 2015 with an investigation into how critical pedagogy and other strategies can be used to build more equitable and participative universities in Australia.

In April Professor Geoff Whitty, Global Innovation Chair for Equity in Higher Education and Co-Director CEEHE, Professor Peter Radoll, Dean of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Education and Research and Ms Belinda Munn, Associate Director CEEHE visited the University of Wisconsin.

The Centre of Excellence for Equity in Higher Education at the University of Newcastle is excited to introduce My Big Tomorrow – a website that profiles over 90 different career choices to encourage kids to dream big about their future and the steps they can take to get there.

The Centre of Excellence for Equity in Higher Education (CEEHE) was successful in eight HEPP Priority Pool Project grants totalling over $1.3 million.

A CEEHE research team led by Co-Director Professor Penny Jane Burke was recently awarded competitive research funding from the National Centre for Student Equity in Higher Education (NCSEHE) as part of their 2015 Student Equity in Higher Education Research Grants Program.

Laureate Professor Graeme Jameson's invention, the Jameson Cell, has been estimated as adding $36 billion to the Australian economy from 1990 to the end of 2014, according to a recent independent report from Manford Pty Ltd.

After 30 years as a metallurgist, in 2008 Andrew Styan changed direction radically to take up a part-time career as a climate change researcher and to pursue his passion for landscape photography.

The University of Newcastle has announced the awarding of the construction contract for its inner-city campus NeW Space to Hansen Yuncken, a leading Australian construction company with strong ties to the Hunter.

Champions4Change is a sustainable behaviour change program to help meet targets of the Environmental Sustainability Plan 2015 – 2017, and develop new or innovative ways to support environmental sustainability.

The University of Newcastle is delighted to announce geotechnical engineer Laureate Professor Scott Sloan has been elected to The Royal Society, a fellowship of the world's most eminent scientific minds. This scientific academy is the oldest in continuous existence and includes luminaries such as Sir Isaac Newton, Stephen Hawking, Charles Darwin and Albert Einstein.

We have witnessed with great sympathy and sadness the aftermath of the earthquake that struck Nepal recently.

UON is celebrating its golden year and it's your time to shine - don't miss your chance to be recognised, or to honour another graduate with a nomination at our 2015 Alumni Awards.