Current Student Achievements

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 […]

PhD student Penny Dunstan’s visually and conceptually astounding exhibition Shadowlands II opens tonight at the University Gallery, Friday 21st July at 6pm. Nature, art, drinks and nibblies will all be in one spot! Penny kindly took me on a tour of her exhibition and talked me through her works of art while setting up ready for […]

Development Studies student Adam Kennedy is moving on to new adventures after his colossal New Colombo Plan Scholarship experience in Singapore. The New Colombo Plan provides opportunities for Australian undergraduate students to live, study and work in the Indo-Pacific region. Excitingly now the program will also include New Caledonia and French Polynesia. Adam has kindly written to us […]

Good news travels fast so you may have heard our Phoebe Everingham has just submitted her PhD thesis! Excitingly Phoebe is our first PhD graduate in the field of Human Geography at UON to submit by publication. She has published four chapters from her thesis that have a sustained and cohesive theme throughout surrounding ethical […]

We want to congratulate to all of our Bachelor of Development Studies students, who celebrated their graduation last week on the 27th of April. Graduation is a celebration of your commitment through several years of hard work meeting deadlines, surviving through many caffeine-fueled nights finishing assessments and long days attending lectures. It also marks the […]

Final year Doctoral Student Phoebe Everingham was one of four international scholars to win a Bursary award for her PhD paper entitled ‘I’m not looking for a manufactured experience: diversity of motivations in Volunteer tourism’ to attend the Otago University New Zealand for the 2017 Council for Australasian Tourism and Hospitality Education (CAUTHE) Conference. On […]

Adam Kennedy, one of our Bachelor of Development Studies students has been honoured with a prestigious New Colombo Plan (NCP) scholarship. The Australian Government initiative is aimed at building relationships and developing a sharing economy that links the Australia with the Indo-Pacific. It also affords Adam with the unique opportunity to learn new knowledge and skills in a global context which will be influential to his studies. Adam has been […]

Excitingly Cassandra Weller, second year UON Bachelor of Development Studies student  was acknowledged in the latest issue of Frankie magazine. Prior to being admitted to the degree at the University of Newcastle, Cassandra had the ambitious idea of integrating her skills in hairdressing and sharing them to empower women in developing countries. You can read more about her story and achievements […]

Human Geography PhD candidate Lara Daley recently gave a progress seminar on her research into urban anti-capitalist politics. Lara is exploring the frictions between anti-capitalist protests at the G20 summit in Brisbane. An abstract of her research is below. “Global economic summits, like the G20, have a history of being points of convergence for anti-capitalist […]

PhD candidate Aeng Phaengsuwan recently gave a progress seminar as part of his PhD research. Aeng’s research explores the efficacy of EIA as an assessment tool in the hydropower development processes in Laos. An abstract of his research is below. “This study evaluates the performance of the Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) system in the context […]