October 2020

With at least one asthma-related death each day in Australia, a team of researchers has been awarded $2.5 million dollars from NHMRC to investigate personalised approaches to asthma treatment.

Unique qualitative research led by members of the Newcastle Youth Studies Network has revealed the systematic inequalities and exploitation young hospitality workers are subjected to.

The Australian's Research 2020 magazine paid tribute to several University of Newcastle researchers for their track record of excellence and contribution to their fields.

In 2014 Professor John Maynard, a scholar of Indigenous history and Co-Director of Purai Indigenous Global History Centre, was elected a member of the Academy of Social Sciences in Australia, an enormous achievement for a boy who left school the day he turned 15 and didn’t set foot in a university until he was 40 years old.

Professor Haskins attended the 2018 European Social Science History Conference in Belfast being one of three panel members on a roundtable discussion centred on the idea of regulating domestic work in both historical/contemporary contexts, and colonial/non-colonial contexts.

It was an emotional day for Dr Ray Kelly when the NSW government introduced the nation's first laws to recognise and revive Indigenous languages.

Speaking at the Birckbeck Institute for the Humanities at the University of London, Purai Co-Director Professor John Maynard said that the connection that Indigenous Australian activists had with Marcus Garvey and the Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA) smashes the entrenched belief of an inward, insular and nationalistic political movement.

Without the generosity of Australian Indigenous people, the chances of an early European surviving a shipwreck or a penal escape were slim in the nineteenth century.

Professor John Maynard didn’t even think about going to university until he was 40 years old and, twelve books later, he’s a professor.

In 1927, one of main founders of the Aboriginal Progressive Society, Fred Maynard, delivered a defiant and powerful message to the NSW government and the then Aboriginies Protection/Welfare Board.

From 1883 until 1969, the lives and affairs of Aboriginal people in NSW were governed and controlled by the Aborigines Protection/Welfare Board, yet there is no definitive history of the Board and its activities in NSW.

Purai Global Indigenous History Centre in association with the University of Newcastle Politics Discipline hosted a seminar with Professor Rajeshwari Deshpande based on her case study of domestic workers in two Indian states.