2017

Using digital technologies to conserve heritage in Indigenous Australian communities through engagement in sustainable tourism is the topic of a paper co-authored by University of Newcastle PhD student Gabrielle McGinnis and Endangered Language Documentation, Theory and Application (ELDTA) research group member Associate Professor Mark Harvey, together with Dr Tamara Young from the Newcastle Business School and Professor Ian Clark from Federation University.

Research from the University of Newcastle (UON) is drawing on the personal stories of cardiac arrest survivors to improve their care in hospital and subsequent quality of life.

Finding solutions to the challenges facing communities in New South Wales will be the focus of an alliance of three of Australia’s leading universities, announced today.

Professor Kypros Kypri reported  in Nature: researchers must stand up to funders insisting on gagging clauses.

Professor Marguerite Johnson from the School of Humanities and Social Science has been named as the inaugural Australia Book Review 2017 Gender Fellow.

The Centre for Social Research and Regional Futures' Rural Land Use and Community Research Network presents a two day symposium: Rural Neighbours in Times of Change. The Network brings together local and international scholars working in the area of rurality and community, rural land use change and conflict, and migration and mobility. The aim of the network is to explore rurality (as locality) through the lens of global mobilities, as it manifests through movement of people (e.g. urban-rural migration, asylum seekers and refugees), minerals (e.g. coal and gas), and agricultural products. During a two-day workshop, the network will focus on the theme of ‘rural neighbours’, with the sub-themes of locality and globalisation; migration and displacement; place and emplacement.

Giving birth has been the foundation of the human race since the start of humanity, but the primal practice is set to benefit from groundbreaking advances in virtual reality (VR) and augmented reality (AR) at the University of Newcastle (UON).

The Department of Education has recently announced changes to the Higher Education Participation and Partnerships Program (HEPPP), including the National Priorities Pool Scheme (NPP).

The Director of Children's University Australia, Kiri Hagenus, visited the University of Newcastle (UON) earlier this month to touch base with the Newcastle program and team.

After completing his first degree in India in computer science, then a PhD in computational stylometry in Malaysia, Ahmad Alqurneh now comes to the University of Newcastle to further his postdoctoral studies in stylometry, the statistical analysis of variations in literary style of texts.

An in-depth atlas of the tumour microenvironment has been mapped by an international cancer team involving Hunter researcher Dr Craig Gedye, seeking to build a clearer picture of how the immune system is involved with cancer.

The National Centre for Student Equity in Higher Education (NCSEHE) has opened applications for its 2017 Research Grants Funding Round. For University of Newcastle (UON) staff intending to apply for a grant in the current round, please follow the internal process outlined below for submitting applications.