July 2018

University of Newcastle medicine student, Tara Kannan, has been announced as a winner of this year’s National Dementia Storytelling Competition, an annual awareness initiative run by Dementia Training Australia (DTA) to improve the care of people living with dementia.

The School of Education will launch a 12 week Professional Certificate in Leadership and Management in Education on 1 August on the global education platform edX. This is the first time UON has offered a short online course or “taster MOOC” for professional learning and academic credit as a pathway into a current postgrad program.

Students from the University of Newcastle English Language Centre have ranked the institution in the top three in Australia in the recent English Language Teaching (ELT) Barometer. The survey also places the centre in the top six in the world, a remarkable increase of over 53 places since 2016.

Professor Ajayan Vinu of the University of Newcastle’s School of Engineering, has been elected Fellow of the World Academy of Art and Science (WAAS).

We are now in the implementation phase of the NeW Education Framework, with a range of initiatives that have kicked off or are in planning. I am delighted to share with you the abridged version of the Framework, and to launch the establishment of the Educator Network: Promoting Collaboration, Innovation and Excellence (tEN).

Applications are now open for ON Prime, Australia’s sci-tech pre-accelerator, designed to help researchers translate their big ideas into real-life impact.

Throughout July, internationally renowned scholar Professor Rosalind Gill will join the School of Humanities and Social Science as a strategic research professor. Rosalind’s work traverses Sociology, Media and Cultural Studies, Gender and Sexuality Studies and Psychosocial Studies.

Two exceptional Early to Mid-Career Researchers have secured more than $1.16 million to explore early intervention methods for two significant health challenges.

The Australian Government has awarded the University of Newcastle $1,267,750 million in funding under the 2019 New Colombo Plan Mobility Program.

Courtney Parnell, a paralegal at Moray & Agnew Lawyers, has been selected as one of four students to represent the University of Newcastle at the largest moot court competition in Australia.

The Australian Research Council (ARC) announced University of Newcastle Senior Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Research and Innovation), Professor Kevin Hall has been appointed a member of its Advisory Council.

PAINTING THE SONGWORKS FROM THE SIMS DICKSON COLLECTION18 JULY – 25 AUGUST 2018IN ASSOCIATION WITH THE NEWCASTLE MUSIC FESTIVAL (3 – 19 AUGUST 2018)www.newcastlemusicfestival.org