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HDR news
2026 postgrad wall calendar: available now!
We can send you a calendar! Our 2026 postgrad wall calendar is here! Featuring all the main Uni dates, public holidays, days of significance and SUPRA events, it's your key to planning 2026. You can use the form below to order your free wall calendar and we will send...
Thanks to Thompson Rivers University
Pictured: Jeneen Herns-Jensen (Algonquin), Professor Rod McCormick (Mohawk), and Lindsay McCabe (palawa)Recently, Deputy Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Officer Lindsay McCabe was invited to meet with representatives from Thompson Rivers University, Kamloops,...
SUPRA’s concerns about FASS workload proposals
HDR students in the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (FASS) may have heard about recent proposals to change the research/teaching balance in academic workloads. The proposals would move HDR student supervision from academics’ teaching hours into their research...
BlakOut journal
BlakOut: An Anthology of First Nations Students’ Scholarship is a multidisciplinary, peer-reviewed journal of First Nations students’ scholarship.
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HDR Grad Post
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