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Alumni Stories

GRADS 2023: IMAN EL-SAKKA

With over a decade-long connection to UC and counting, MBA graduate Iman El-Sakka still can’t quite believe she has made it through her postgraduate studies, and while she is no longer a student, she remains a dedicated and enthusiastic UC staff member.

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Alumni Stories

GRADS 2023: Jeremy Bridger

With a Bachelor of Education from the University of Canberra, Jeremy Bridger has the flexibility to go where he wants, and do what he is most passionate about.

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Ideas, Progress & the Future

2022 Researcher of the Year, Kerry McCallum

University of Canberra Professor Kerry McCallum’s commitment to creating change through her research, strategic leadership, and valued supervision saw her named the Vice-Chancellor’s Researcher of the Year in December 2022.

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Environmental Influence

Unfinished business in the Murray-Darling Basin

On World Water Day, the University of Canberra's Professor Ross Thompson reflects on how Australia's largest and most productive river basin is now facing a hugely uncertain period in its management.

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Community Connections

Vale Ross Gibson

Professor Ross Gibson was a collaborator, creative, but most importantly a wonderful colleague and friend.

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Community Connections

Craig Mutton: Pride goes beyond the rainbow … it’s about the everyday

The University of Canberra’s Chief Digital Officer Craig Mutton talks about moving to the rainbow capital, how he finds Pride in the everyday – and why he hopes that one day, no LGBTIQ+ person will need to come out.

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Sport, Health & Wellbeing

Self-belief and character the big win for the UC Capitals in Season 2022-23

After a season that was always going to be tough, University of Canberra Capitals Head Coach Kristen Veal ends the 2022-23 WNBL season with more experience and wisdom, some triumphs, and a roaring Caps community.

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Dhunning - Indigenous Impact

Meet Maree: UC's new Pro Vice-Chancellor Indigenous Leadership

Since commencing her role as Pro Vice-Chancellor Indigenous Leadership in January, Maree Meredith has already achieved so much. Now, she's looking forward to the future in her role.

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Ideas, Progress & the Future

UnCover video: Janine Deakin, on how the blips in her career got her to where she is today

As we track on through our lives – build careers, loves, families – there will be failures, says the Executive Dean of UC’s Faculty of Science and Technology. And they can all be used to point us in the direction of success – no matter what that success looks like for us. Janine shares the story of a career in which she wouldn’t change a thing.

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UC’s new class of Indigenous female leaders

Proud Bidjara woman Professor Maree Meredith – UC's new Pro Vice-Chancellor Indigenous Leadership – and Associate Director, Indigenous Leadership and proud Gamilaroi woman Kirsten Tapine will redefine how the University engages with the community.

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Students in Focus

Mentor match made in heaven for UC PhD Plus candidates

Ravi Parameshwara and Soujanya Narayana moved to Australia to expand their PhD opportunities – then they found that mentorship under the University of Canberra’s PhD Plus program took them even further than they had could have dreamed.

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Ideas, Progress & the Future

Getting women elected: changing the face of politics

This week, the Pathways to Politics Program for Women launches at the University of Canberra – Dr Meredith Martin, Pathways Program Director for the University of Melbourne, shares her optimism about the political participation of women across Australia.

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Alumni Stories

Mentorship takes centrestage at Red Hill Primary School

When Sophie Hopkins met her teaching placement mentor Juliette O’Connor, a Year 1 educator at Red Hill Primary School, she knew she was on the right path. This year, they’ll be working together as colleagues to bring the performing arts to a new generation of children.

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Students in Focus

Ambition unleashed

Sustainable drinking water, equitable education and saving the tigers – Akhilesh Johnson has big plans for the future.

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Community Connections

Achieving excellence in accommodation

In her role as Associate Director of Student Accommodation, Rachel Overton guides students from the wings, providing the supports they need to thrive while living and studying on campus.

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