May 2017

UON graduates have starred at 2017 Australian Institute of Architects' NSW Graduate and Student Awards, taking out two of the most prestigious honours.

Using digital technologies to conserve heritage in Indigenous Australian communities through engagement in sustainable tourism is the topic of a paper co-authored by University of Newcastle PhD student Gabrielle McGinnis and Endangered Language Documentation, Theory and Application (ELDTA) research group member Associate Professor Mark Harvey, together with Dr Tamara Young from the Newcastle Business School and Professor Ian Clark from Federation University.

We are all aware of the major shifts taking place in higher education. When many of our current students were in primary school, not many of their parents were thinking of how education would prepare their daughters or sons for jobs in creative industries, drone design, data science, cybersecurity or technology-assisted health care.  Not all academics starting their first job in a university twenty years ago would have foreshadowed how critical interdisciplinary education and research would become for the graduates of the future, how digital literacy and analytics would change learning, and how courses could become both massive and micro.

Attendees at the Australian Historical Association conference will have the opportunity to get hands-on experience using computational linguistics for historical analysis and learn from one of the leading scholars in the field.A digital history workshop is planned as part of the conference and will be led by international scholar Associate Professor Michelle Moravec from Rosemont College in Philadelphia.

A new accelerator program will help supercharge Startups in Australia’s Hunter Region.

Research from the University of Newcastle (UON) is drawing on the personal stories of cardiac arrest survivors to improve their care in hospital and subsequent quality of life.

Finding solutions to the challenges facing communities in New South Wales will be the focus of an alliance of three of Australia’s leading universities, announced today.

Professor Kypros Kypri reported  in Nature: researchers must stand up to funders insisting on gagging clauses.

The Centre for Social Research and Regional Futures' Rural Land Use and Community Research Network presents a two day symposium: Rural Neighbours in Times of Change. The Network brings together local and international scholars working in the area of rurality and community, rural land use change and conflict, and migration and mobility. The aim of the network is to explore rurality (as locality) through the lens of global mobilities, as it manifests through movement of people (e.g. urban-rural migration, asylum seekers and refugees), minerals (e.g. coal and gas), and agricultural products. During a two-day workshop, the network will focus on the theme of ‘rural neighbours’, with the sub-themes of locality and globalisation; migration and displacement; place and emplacement.

Professor Marguerite Johnson from the School of Humanities and Social Science has been named as the inaugural Australia Book Review 2017 Gender Fellow.

Giving birth has been the foundation of the human race since the start of humanity, but the primal practice is set to benefit from groundbreaking advances in virtual reality (VR) and augmented reality (AR) at the University of Newcastle (UON).

After completing his first degree in India in computer science, then a PhD in computational stylometry in Malaysia, Ahmad Alqurneh now comes to the University of Newcastle to further his postdoctoral studies in stylometry, the statistical analysis of variations in literary style of texts.