NEWS: Call for Abstracts (due 25 October 2024): VERA (Very Early Career Researchers Assembly), Friday 8 November 2024, University of Newcastle

The University of Newcastle is delighted to be hosting VERA (Very Early Career Researchers Assembly), sponsored by the Geographical Society of NSW. The conference provides the opportunity for geographers very early in their careers (such as recently completed Honours or Masters students, or first year PhD students) to present their first conference presentation. The conference welcomes presentations from both human and physical geographers. The Geographical Society of NSW awards a prize for best overall presentation, best physical geography presentation and best human geography presentation.

The conference will be held at the Nuspace campus of the University of Newcastle (corner of Auckland and Hunter Sts Newcastle) on Friday November 8^th 2024. 

Please circulate this invitation to interested students.
Students should send their abstract to Kathy.Mee@newcastle.edu.au by Friday October 25^th, 2024. 
Abstracts should include the presenters name, department and institution, a title, an abstract of no more than 250 words, and should also indicate whether the participant will be attending in person or online.