July 2018

Shaun McCarthy hosts Capacity Assessment Symposium

The global reach of Newcastle academics

Associate Professor John Anderson sharing his expertise

Law School academic appointed as guest lecturer in China

Investigating oil and gas company deposits following 2013 shale boom

University of Newcastle medicine student, Tara Kannan, has been announced as a winner of this year’s National Dementia Storytelling Competition, an annual awareness initiative run by Dementia Training Australia (DTA) to improve the care of people living with dementia.

The School of Education will launch a 12 week Professional Certificate in Leadership and Management in Education on 1 August on the global education platform edX. This is the first time the University of Newcastle has offered a short online course or “taster MOOC” for professional learning and academic credit as a pathway into a current postgrad program.

Professor Ajayan Vinu of the University of Newcastle’s School of Engineering, has been elected Fellow of the World Academy of Art and Science (WAAS).

Students from the University of Newcastle English Language Centre have ranked the institution in the top three in Australia in the recent English Language Teaching (ELT) Barometer. The survey also places the centre in the top six in the world, a remarkable increase of over 53 places since 2016.

We are now in the implementation phase of the NeW Education Framework, with a range of initiatives that have kicked off or are in planning. I am delighted to share with you the abridged version of the Framework, and to launch the establishment of the Educator Network: Promoting Collaboration, Innovation and Excellence (tEN).

Applications are now open for ON Prime, Australia’s sci-tech pre-accelerator, designed to help researchers translate their big ideas into real-life impact.

Throughout July, internationally renowned scholar Professor Rosalind Gill will join the School of Humanities and Social Science as a strategic research professor. Rosalind’s work traverses Sociology, Media and Cultural Studies, Gender and Sexuality Studies and Psychosocial Studies.