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UNE Law School receives Carrick grant to lead national collaborative project
Despite its fledgling status, the 12-year-old School of Law at The University of New England (UNE) has taken a leadership role. It is set to band together 22 of Australia’s law schools in a Web-based collaboration that will give Australian law research a groundbreaking edge over established and eminent law schools in England and the United States.
The merit of the proposed Australian Law School Internet collaborative facility has been recognised by a Carrick Institute grant, which will see the theory put into practice within 18 months.
“The School of Law at UNE has been awarded a $192,000 Carrick Institute Leadership Grant for Excellence in Teaching and Learning,” explained the Head of UNE's School of Law, Professor Stephen Colbran (pictured here). “The purpose of the grant is to promote a culture of collaboration among Australian law schools. For example, as a result of this UNE-led project, a postgraduate research student will be able to approach any of the 22 law schools involved in the project to obtain supervisors in their area of study. This will be a major advance on past practices, whereby students could access available specialists in only one law school.”
The innovative concept will be an Australian first. It has evolved from UNE’s cutting-edge initiatives – including podcasting, and enhanced delivery of course material via the Internet – to assist its distance-education students.
“This is a major coup for UNE,” Professor Colbran continued. “UNE will control the set-up and management of this collaborative project among the law schools. It will control and manage the Web site, and also the support staff involved in the project. This should put UNE in a prime position to build networks with other law schools and their supervisors and research staff, and to establish further collaborative arrangements among PhD and other higher-degree research students studying law in Australia.
“The model proposed for this project will unquestionably allow Australia to be much more competitive than the likes of the United Kingdom and the United States, in the sense that students will be able to tap into a wider variety of expertise and supervisors for their higher-degree research projects. While other countries are limited by what any particular law school can offer in terms of supervision and specialised expertise, Australian law schools – united – will become an international benchmark for law research.”
When complete, the UNE-managed national law school Web facility will provide a broad array of services to its Australian university membership. It is expected to facilitate specialised forums on research topics, foster collaborative law research endeavours, and even serve as a repository for back-up copies of theses.
For more information, contact Professor Colbran on (02) 6773 2910.
Posted by Jim Scanlan ON WWW.UNE.EDU.AU
Despite its fledgling status, the 12-year-old School of Law at The University of New England (UNE) has taken a leadership role. It is set to band together 22 of Australia’s law schools in a Web-based collaboration that will give Australian law research a groundbreaking edge over established and eminent law schools in England and the United States.The merit of the proposed Australian Law School Internet collaborative facility has been recognised by a Carrick Institute grant, which will see the theory put into practice within 18 months.
“The School of Law at UNE has been awarded a $192,000 Carrick Institute Leadership Grant for Excellence in Teaching and Learning,” explained the Head of UNE's School of Law, Professor Stephen Colbran (pictured here). “The purpose of the grant is to promote a culture of collaboration among Australian law schools. For example, as a result of this UNE-led project, a postgraduate research student will be able to approach any of the 22 law schools involved in the project to obtain supervisors in their area of study. This will be a major advance on past practices, whereby students could access available specialists in only one law school.”
The innovative concept will be an Australian first. It has evolved from UNE’s cutting-edge initiatives – including podcasting, and enhanced delivery of course material via the Internet – to assist its distance-education students.
“This is a major coup for UNE,” Professor Colbran continued. “UNE will control the set-up and management of this collaborative project among the law schools. It will control and manage the Web site, and also the support staff involved in the project. This should put UNE in a prime position to build networks with other law schools and their supervisors and research staff, and to establish further collaborative arrangements among PhD and other higher-degree research students studying law in Australia.
“The model proposed for this project will unquestionably allow Australia to be much more competitive than the likes of the United Kingdom and the United States, in the sense that students will be able to tap into a wider variety of expertise and supervisors for their higher-degree research projects. While other countries are limited by what any particular law school can offer in terms of supervision and specialised expertise, Australian law schools – united – will become an international benchmark for law research.”
When complete, the UNE-managed national law school Web facility will provide a broad array of services to its Australian university membership. It is expected to facilitate specialised forums on research topics, foster collaborative law research endeavours, and even serve as a repository for back-up copies of theses.
For more information, contact Professor Colbran on (02) 6773 2910.
Posted by Jim Scanlan ON WWW.UNE.EDU.AU