May 2020
Featured News • 5 May 2020
Building the recovery workforce through short courses
The University of Newcastle has unveiled a suite of short courses to give displaced workers a chance to upskill or reskill and help build a thriving workforce in the post COVID-19 recovery phase.
Featured News • 4 May 2020
A sustainable future in health: ensuring as health professionals our own house is in order and leading by example
It is time for health professionals to step up and lead to ensure a sustainable environment and health, according to one of Australia’s leading medical practitioners and researchers.
College of Human and Social Futures • 4 May 2020
New book looks at how migrants used music to help shape their lives in nineteenth-century Newcastle
How did nineteenth-century migrants to Australia use music to make sense of their new surroundings? That is the question focused on in a newly published book authored by School of Creative Industries researcher and member of the Centre for 21st Century Humanities, Dr Helen English.
Current Students • 4 May 2020
Student response to studying from home overwhelmingly positive
The COVID-19 Online Learning Check-In Survey was recently completed by 7309 students and has shown a positive response to the changed learning environment.
Watt Space • 4 May 2020
A sneak peek into Truth: Now/Then/Everywhen
Truth: Now/Then/Everywhen brings together an impressive selection of works by artists such as Nancy Nanana Jackson and Judith Yinyika Chambers, Kaylene Whiskey and Robert Fielding and intersects true life stories with works such as Abbott’s Camp, 2016 by Sally Mulda – an Arrernte and Southern Luritja artist from the Central Desert region. Mulda’s painting practice is figurative, using text and bright colours to express brutal and dark truths about everyday life, documenting her experience and the surrounding social and political situations that her community experience.
Watt Space • 4 May 2020
Two rare collaborative artworks from the edge of the Great Sandy Desert for NUspace foyer
Desert Homelands – Waterhole, 2010 and Country and Country Where We Lived, 2010 by the Wangkatjungka Collaboration
College of Engineering, Science and Environment • 1 May 2020
Maths, reading and better nutrition: all the reasons to cook with your kids
Through cooking children learn maths and comprehension skills, as well as how to be confident. Research also shows involving children in cooking helps them eat more healthily.
Featured story • 1 May 2020
Historic lake could be key to better management of Murray Darling Basin
College of Engineering, Science and Environment • 1 May 2020
ARC Linkage Grant to investigate the impact of oestrogen on marine species
The Australian Research Council has awarded a $150,000 Linkage Grant to Dr Geoff MacFarlane, a Senior Lecturer for the School of Environmental and Life Sciences within the Faculty of Science.
College of Human and Social Futures • 1 May 2020
Law in Lockdown - a Newcastle Law School podcast
The NLS explores the impact of COVID-19 on the legal community.
The Conversation • 1 May 2020
Children returning to school during coronavirus has human rights implications
By Amy Maguire and Donna McNamaraDebates about a return to classroom learning in Australia are fraught, and parents have mixed feelings as to what may be best for their children.
The University of Newcastle acknowledges the traditional custodians of the lands within our footprint areas: Awabakal, Darkinjung, Biripai, Worimi, Wonnarua, and Eora Nations. We also pay respect to the wisdom of our Elders past and present.