2020

Professor Brett Neilan has appeared on the ABC’s The Science Show to discuss the importance of knowledge garnered by First Nations People in a new $35 million Australian Research Council (ARC) Centre of Excellence in Synthetic Biology (CoESB).

Through cooking children learn maths and comprehension skills, as well as how to be confident. Research also shows involving children in cooking helps them eat more healthily.

The multitude of Aboriginal oral memories about Captain James Cook.

Stocking up to prepare for a crisis isn’t ‘panic buying’. It’s actually a pretty rational choice.

Dr David Savage on the potential for COVID-19 immune individuals to be a valuable resource in combating the virus.

A faculty group from Newcastle Business School is exploring the impacts of COVID-19.

An article by Professor Daniel Nyberg from Newcastle Business School has been listed in Financial Times’ top 100.

Law School academic helps to shape public understanding regarding human rights issues during the pandemic.

This episode of the HASS School Human Experience podcast features Professor Victoria Haskins who shares an intriguing family history discovery that sparked her wonderful academic journey.

Announcing our 2020 Student Internship recipients

The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted the need for anti-viral therapies to treat respiratory virus infections. With a vaccine probably at least 12 months away, drug repurposing (using clinically approved drugs which also have anti-viral activity) offers hope in fast-tracking therapies to possibly treat infected people and save lives.

Digital humanist with the School of Humanities and Social Science and the Centre for 21st Century Humanities, Dr Erin McCarthy has found a unique way to launch her newly published book, Doubtful Readers: Print, Poetry, and the Reading Public in Early Modern England.