New Year, More Development Studies!
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 … Read More »
Dr Felix Ringel speaks at Postgraduate Day Workshop
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 … Read More »
UON holds NSW Geography Honours/Masters Conference 2017
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 … Read More »
ENVS3006 Field Trip: Hunter Businesses Putting Sustainability into Practice
The day wasn’t planned just to see the week-old baby goats, but they were the highlight of the excursion for many students (as you can see)! During the ENVS3006 Sustainability: Theory and Practice excursion, we visited and learned from local … Read More »
Tully Hambridge at the Jakarta International Youth Program
In August Tully Hambridge had the amazing opportunity to attend the Jakarta International Youth Program. You may have met Tully in class, she is a current Bachelor of Social Science/Bachelor of Laws (Honours) student majoring in Human Geography and the Environment. She … Read More »
GEOG3300 Out and About Rethinking Development
Lucky students enroled in GEOG3300 took part in a one-day field trip to the beautiful Central Coast. We ventured to a number of key sites to think back on our past and current development with our guide, Gavi from Bara … Read More »
Up for a Yarn to Rethink Development
A key part of our third year core course GEOG3300 Rethinking Development involves providing diverse learning experiences and opportunities to reflect on what it means to relate differently with other people, including non-human others. Bernard Kelly-Edwards, Gumbaynggirr man from Bellingen … Read More »
Honours Information Session Coming Soon
We are holding an information session for 3rd year students that are interested in studying Honours in 2018. The session is on the 12th of September 2017 starting at 9am. You can find further information and requirements below. We have … Read More »
Enrol to Vote and Have Your Say
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; … Read More »
Institute of Australian Geographers, Annual Conference 2017
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. … Read More »