About URNA

Our bi-annual newsletter, URNA (Undergraduate Research News Australasia), publishes articles by students about their research, and also carries news from ACUR and from conferences as well as about upcoming events. Articles from university staff are also welcome, written in a style suitable for a general audience.

Our latest Issue 27 of URNA is complete and published in June 2025. Current and past issues of URNA can be viewed below, and the digital form is distributed to all ACUR members and Steering Committee members around the world, as well as to all universities in Australia and New Zealand.

The URNA Newsletter is coordinated by the ACUR Executive through the editorial support of Lucia Ravi & Sonali Varma.

Contribute to URNA

To submit an item for consideration for the next newsletter, email editor@acur.org.au with an outline of what you’d like to say about your engagement in undergraduate research as a student or academic. Articles should be between 300 and 500 words in length, with an appealing title and a photograph. Please download our Writing for URNA template.

Issue 28 of URNA will be published in late January 2026. We welcome expressions of interest to contribute. Final article contributions will be required by the 10th December 2025. 

To view URNA Policy click here.

Read URNA

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URNA Issue 27 – Winter 2025	URNA Issue 26 – Summer 2024/5
URNA Issue 25 – Autumn 2024	URNA Issue 24 – Summer 2023
URNA Issue 23 – Autumn 2023	URNA Issue 22 – Spring 2022
URNA Issue 21 – Autumn 2022	URNA Issue 20 – Spring 2021
URNA Issue 19 – Autumn 2021	URNA Issue 18 – Spring 2020
URNA Issue 17, Autumn 2020 .	URNA Issue 16, Spring 2019 .
URNA Issue 15, Autumn 2019 .	URNA Issue 14, Spring 2018 .
URNA Issue 13, Autumn 2018 .	URNA Issue 12 Spring 2017 .
URNA Issue 11, Summer 2015 .	URNA Issue 9-10, Summer 2014 .
URNA Issue 8, Autumn 2014 .	URNA Issue 7, Summer 2013 .
URNA Issue 6, Autumn 2013 .	URNA Issue 5, Summer 2012 .
URNA Issue 4, Spring 2012 .	URNA Issue 3, Spring 2011 .
URNA Issue 2, Autumn 2011 .	URNA Issue 1, Autumn 2010 .