ACUR is a community of people interested to promote and advance undergraduate research across Australia and New Zealand. It includes internationally known researchers and expert facilitators of undergraduate research programs and initiatives.
You can browse member’s profiles here if you are looking for expertise. Just click on their name to see more information and to reach out to them.
Please add your profile to this page if you would like to get some recognition for the work you do in the undergraduate research space,
If you are involved in promoting or engaging students in undergraduate research,
If you are carrying out research to understand research at the undergraduate level,
if you teach using research-based methods,
if you are an undergraduate student doing research, or
if you are simply an interested observer or promoter of ACUR activities.
You or your University/Institution must be a member of ACUR for it to show. A list of our Member Institutions are listed on the bottom of our homepage.
If you are part of a Member Institution, and not currently listed as a contact, please email our office for access. You will then be able to fill out our form and we will add your Profile to this webpage.
The late Emeritus Angela Brew was the founding Chair of ACUR and led ACUR in that role until December 2024, when she took on the role of Memberships Director. Angela sadly passed away in March 2025.
Angela was the former Head of the Academic Development Centre at the University of Portsmouth in the United Kingdom and later an Associate Professor at the University of Sydney, leading strategic projects relating to the scholarship of learning and teaching, research-enhanced learning and teaching and graduate research supervision.
Angela’s Australian Learning and Teaching National Senior Teaching Fellowship on enhancing undergraduate engagement through research and inquiry, which she led at Macquarie University in 2009, planted the seeds for the establishment of ACUR. Angela also contributed to planning the first WCUR and strongly supported the Association of Global Undergraduate Research (AGUR) foundation and the organisation’s work in promoting global undergraduate research.
Angela was a trailblazer in promoting the scholarship of learning and teaching, with a strong focus on undergraduate research and an academic whose accolades include Australian and UK fellowships, past HERDSA president and life member and an impressive body of research publications.
Angela leaves an impressive legacy, not the least of which is the establishment of the HERDSA Fellowship Scheme and ACUR.
Professor Eric Pawson from the University of Canterbury, New Zealand was on the Executive Committee of the Australasian Council for Undergraduate Research from 2017-2020. He made an excellent contribution to the work of the Committee over four years, most notably for establishing links with related networks and for taking the Editor role of the Undergraduate Research Newsletter of Australasia (URNA), overseeing seven issues from Spring (November) 2017 – Spring (November) 2020. During his editorship he made a concerted effort to strengthen the student contributions to the newsletter, highlighting the breadth of research undergraduates conduct. Eric remains an unwavering advocate for undergraduate research, and even though an Emeritus Professor now, he still works with undergraduates through the Otakaro Living Lab in Christchurch.
Prof Mike Neary, Emeritus Professor of Sociology, University of Lincoln, UK Mike was one of the experts in establishing my ALTC Fellowship (2009) which was the foundation of the establishment of the Australasian Council for Undergraduate Research (ACUR). I drew on meetings with him at the University of Warwick where he established one of the first Centres for Excellence (CETLs) in developing undergraduate research in the UK. A highlight of my subsequent Australian Government Grant in 2013, that was designed to make undergraduate research conferences sustainable, was a visit to the University of Lincoln where I was able to explore with Mike new classrooms that he had developed to encourage a ‘student as producer’ model of teaching and learning. These events and Mike’s ideas and scholarly writing were seminal in establishing the underlying framework and ethos of ACUR which is, to this day, a vibrant community of academics and students working together to promote and advance undergraduate research in Australasia (https://www.acur.org.au). Mike remained a member of the ACUR Steering Committee until his untimely sad death.
