Our Dr Paul Hodge and Dr Faith Curtis have put together an important report entitled ‘Nurturing Strengths, Challenging Myths: People seeking asylum and the role of support and advocacy organisations‘. It focusses on stories of practitioners in advocacy and support organisations across Australia implementing strength-based approaches to build on the capacities of people seeking asylum. […]
Welcome to 2018! We hope all new and continuing students and staff had a relaxing and fun holiday season. We’re excited to be back with lots of great news on the horizon. We’ve got new degree programs starting with their first intake, students starting in Honours and some new graduate profiles being shared each week […]
On the 7th of December, The UON School of Environmental and Life Sciences (Geography and Environmental Studies) hosted the annual Postgraduate Day Workshop for 2017. Many colleagues and postgraduate students from Macquarie University visited to join in on the day’s activities. Dr Felix Ringel, Research Fellow in the Department of Anthropology at Durham University […]
The UON School of Environmental and Life Sciences (Geography and Environmental Studies) were fortunate to host the annual NSW Geography Honours/Masters Conference on the 9th of November. This Honours/Masters Conference series first started as a way for postgraduate students to share their work with colleagues and network with like-minded researchers in the field. On the […]
We were fortunate to have Associate Professor Andrew McGregor from Macquarie University to present for our seminar series discussing ‘Prefigurative politics and plant-based food in the Anthropocene: quiet activism within Sydney’s foodscapes’. Andrew’s research spans across development studies, human geography and political ecology with a particular interests in activist geographies, global environmental governance and […]
The University is encouraging all staff and students to have their say in the upcoming postal survey on Australian marriage law (referred to as the ‘same-sex marriage postal vote’). If you would like to vote you may need to enrol; check your eligibility; or check your details. You can do all these things at the […]
The 2017 Annual Conference of the Institute of Australian Geographers has just been held at the University of Queensland. Twelve academic staff members and PhD students from UON’s Discipline of Geography and Environmental Studies were among the almost 200 participants. Presentations from the UON delegation included those on wayfinding with mobile phones (Ainsley Hughes), the […]
As part of her Department of Foreign Affairs (DFAT) funded research project, Chief Investigator Dr Sarah Wright from the School of Environmental and Life Sciences facilitated an international fellows visit for the Centre for Urban and Regional Studies (CURS) at UON’s Callaghan campus on July 4th. Joining collaborative academics from the project’s partner institution, Monash […]
Last semester students seemingly inhaled 16 pizzas. Nothing was left. This time a few survived… not many, enough for leftovers. But we still had a great turnout at our welcome lunch for Semester 2, 2017 with lots of familiar faces of lecturers and continuing students (including New Colombo Plan scholar Adam Kennedy after recently returning from the […]
Our Dr Bonnie McBain has been featured in the Conversation for her article on the need for transport reform and with the recent news that some manufacturers are moving towards hydrid and electric cars. This article was originally published on The Conversation. Read the original article. The article has been shared her under the Creative […]
