November 2016

The economic and cultural value of Australian music export will be determined in a new study that is the first of its kind.Funded by the Australian Research Council, APRA AMCOS and the Australia Council for the Arts, the research project is an exciting collaboration between the music industry and academics from the University of Newcastleand Monash University.

Dreams of urban transformation have inspired the University of Newcastle (UON)’s third-year Architecture program students to develop concepts for Newcastle’s former heavy rail corridor.

The University of Newcastle’s (UON) Vice-Chancellor, Professor Caroline McMillen, and CIFAL Newcastle Director, Associate Professor Graham Brewer, attended the United Nations (UN) Habitat III Conference held in Ecuador last week to discuss the role universities will play in shaping sustainable development in cities around the world.

The University of Newcastle (UON) has been successfully awarded over $5.7 million in 2016 Australian Research Council (ARC) funding for Discovery Projects, Future Fellowships and Discovery Early Career Researcher Awards.

The University of Newcastle (UON) has today been awarded over $5.7 million by the Australian Research Council (ARC), to support new research projects in 2017.

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.