College of Human and Social Futures

The University of Newcastle’s Q Building has been officially opened today by The Hon. Rob Stokes MP Minister for Infrastructure, Cities, and Active Transport.

When my partner and I relocated to Newcastle nearly a decade ago, we chose to live in the Newcastle CBD to be part of the renaissance of the community. In the last decade we’ve watched and participated in what I like to call the evolution from our dependency on the mine, to the dependency on the...

The NUW Alliance - a grouping of four leading Australian universities, The University of Newcastle, the University of Wollongong, UNSW Sydney and Western Sydney University – launches its Six Cities Region Vision featuring 3 pillars of focus – Sustainability, Infrastructure and Women.

The University of Newcastle will put innovators, problem solvers, tech heads and designers to the test at the New Futures Hackathon for Ageing in Place

Researchers from the Infertility and Reproduction Program at Hunter Medical Research Institute have unearthed a connection between lipid peroxidation that occurs in both poor sperm health and in other diseases.

The Australian Research Council (ARC) has announced its latest rounds of funding for the Future Fellowships and DECRA schemes, with four University of Newcastle projects attracting funding of more than $3 million for projects of national importance.

More than half of Australian employees feel lonely in their work, with 15 per cent feeling 'extremely lonely', and younger Australians below 29 years of age feeling lonelier than any other age group.

More than a third of Australians are financially illiterate, according to newly released research from the University of Newcastle.

It’s National Stroke Week (8 – 14 August) and HMRI and the University of Newcastle are on a mission to raise awareness about risk factors and rehabilitation research.

New research by the University of Newcastle has found students who are victim-survivors of gender-based violence overcome major challenges to access and fully participate in higher education – and the institution is pushing for change.

A passion to make a positive impact in the community has seen second year University of Newcastle communications student Courtney Yeandle named as the inaugural recipient of the Meg Purser Scholarship.

New research has found that Drag Queen Storytime (DQS) childhood literacy events at public libraries and bookshops in the USA and Australia between 2018 and 2020 became sites of networked online and offline hate by anti-LGBTQ groups.