July 2017

Last year UON joined 39 other Australian universities in the Respect. Now. Always initiative to address sexual harassment and sexual assault in university communities. As part of the University’s efforts on this important matter, I established the Sexual Misconduct Working Group in April this year with wide representation from stakeholders across the University.

Exposing toddlers to ‘risky play’ such as access to open flames and genuine tools during their early learning actually increases their safety awareness and promotes risk aversion, new research from the University of Newcastle (UON) has found.

A Humanities Startup Workshop run by the University of Newcastle’s Centre for 21st Century Humanities in conjunction with Slingshot has assisted in the creation of a design service and research studio within the School of Creative Industries.

A team of UON Researchers has won the 2017 IFAC Foundation award for work showing how techniques in systems and control engineering can be applied to quantifying the economic damage of greenhouse gas emissions.

Want to meet like-minded people, learn new skills and effect change at UON? Nominate now as a student member of the University Council, the Academic Senate, or a Faculty Board.

NSW Premier, The Hon Gladys Berejiklian MP launches the NUW Alliance, as universities seek consultation on ways to solve the greatest challenges facing the state.

Researchers from the University of Newcastle (UON) are reframing the global understanding and treatment pathways for Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS) by urging practitioners to recognise that the condition is not just one disease, but in fact several or more.

The Centre for 21st Century Humanities’ Professor Roland Boer is tapping into collaboration opportunities with Chinese scholars of Marxism.

University of Newcastle historians have published a new book that explores race, gender, culture, politics and Australian society during the First World War.

What do a Festival of Repair, shared childcare for international students and a guerrilla busking flash mob event have in common? They were just three of the human-centric business ideas that underwent an intensive two-day workshop to nurture ideas at the Humanities Start-Ups Workshop on 29-30 June.

Employees of The University of Newcastle have access to novated vehicle leasing with LeasePlan.

Documenting an endangered Oceanic language wasn’t exactly what Amy Dewar saw in her future whilst working as a funeral director, but it’s precisely where her extraordinary journey with the University of Newcastle (UON) has led her.