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News • 24 Jan 2023

Industry partnership aims to heal wound control problem

University of Newcastle experts and industry leaders will join forces to develop new ways to address wound control, a distressing problem that costs the Australian healthcare industry $3.5b each year.

News • 20 Jan 2023

Beat the scammers and dive into Law on the Beach

Financial scammers don’t discriminate when honing in on their targets, often leaving the most vulnerable in the community confused and fearful.

News • 18 Jan 2023

Nunggubuyu woman Daphne Daniels honoured at graduation

Activist, community leader and Elder, Dr Daphne Daniels believes in the power of education and research as a first step to drive change in Aboriginal communities.

News • 15 Dec 2022

Spinal cord pain to PTSD: $5.2m in NHMRC grants to target pressing medical conditions

Both the body and the mind will be a key focus for innovative researchers from the University of Newcastle, who were successful in the latest round of National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) Ideas Grants.

News • 02 Dec 2022

Protecting coral reefs and extreme weather on earth and in space: $4.8m in ARC funding

Our environment and how we protect it will be a key focus for innovative researchers from the University of Newcastle, who were successful in the latest round of funding in from the Australian Research Council (ARC) Discovery Projects Scheme.

News • 01 Dec 2022

Asthma in pregnancy toolkit rolls out to help stop flare-ups

A world first Asthma and Pregnancy Toolkit designed to improve the health of pregnant women and their babies will be rolled out across the ACT.

News • 01 Dec 2022

Schools improve overall wellbeing with an inexpensive program that gets kids moving

Many young people’s mental health declined during the pandemic. Changing school culture to increase children’s physical activity at school helps to reverse this trend, researchers have found.

News • 01 Dec 2022

Researcher identifies 6,000 sperm proteins, potentially leading to a male contraceptive

A researcher has for the first time profiled 6,000 sperm proteins that could help create a non-hormonal male contraceptive - while also building on key research linking sperm health to overall men’s health.

News • 28 Nov 2022

Quality Teaching Rounds recognised for Research Impact

The University of Newcastle's Teachers and Teaching Research Centre has won the prestigious Engagement Australia 2022 Excellence Award for Outstanding Engagement for Research Impact.

News • 26 Nov 2022

Preschoolers’ screen time logs link to sleep and development

Australian preschoolers’ growing screen time use, whether at day or night, is associated with poorer sleep, and poorer language and cognitive development, University of Newcastle researchers have revealed.

News • 25 Nov 2022

Researchers investigate recovery from intimate partner violence

Hunter Medical Research Institute (HMRI) and University of Newcastle researchers have discovered women who experience Intimate Partner Violence (IPV) are nearly twice as likely to suffer mental health disorders and only around 22 per cent felt fully recovered after a decade.

News • 23 Nov 2022

$1m to improve schizophrenia treatment

Professor Murray Cairns has been awarded $1 million in NSW Government funding to explore genetically informed precision medicine for schizophrenia using human cerebral organoids.

Events

Event

2025 Karen Thrift Prize for Poetry

The University of Newcastle School of Humanities, Creative Industries and Social Sciences is happy to announce that applications for the Karen Thrift Prize for Poetry for 2025 is now open.

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When Monday 1 December 2025 - Sunday 18 January 2026