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R is a free and extremely powerful language and software environment for statistical computing, data analysis, and graphics. This course is designed for those who have little to no experience with R, but have a basic understanding of statistics.

Seminar: Historically, altitude training emerged in the 1960s and was limited to the “Live High Train High” method for the endurance athletes looking for increasing their hemoglobin mass and the oxygen transport. This “classical” method was completed in 1990s by the “Live High Train Low” (...)

In April 2017, June Oscar AO became the first woman to be appointed as the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice Commissioner at the Australian Human Rights Commission (AHRC). Commissioner Oscar has made the human rights of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women and girls a (...)

Everyone Googles…but do you really know how to get the best out of Google for your research? Learn how to harness the power of Google to find scholarly material in this hands-on workshop targeted at HDR students and academic staff. Registration required, please follow the link to register.

Despite Statistics being the traditional field for data analysis, people with formal statistical training form a relatively small segment of the Data Science community. Indeed, it is easy to conclude that the influence of Statistics on the field is waning: for instance, Python is slightly more (...)

Ongoing research in the Darkhad Depression of Huvsgul Province has helped to illuminate the changing settlement patterns, economic strategies, and socio-political developments that took place as the hunter-gatherers of the region began to incorporate pastoralism into their traditional lifeways (...)

A public lecture by Giuliana Costa, Associate Professor of Sociology, Politecnico di Milano, Italy and 2018 Institute of Advanced Studies Visiting Fellow.

A great many of us will be in need of care during our lifetime, mainly when we grow old. It is likely we will have to gather together (...)

Three years ago, ISIS claimed a cross-border caliphate stretching over vast swathes of north-western Iraq and eastern Syria. Fascinated by its rise, Muslim youths from all corners rapidly joined its cause. After three years of shocking violence, ISIS has faced major setbacks and has been in retreat (...)

Three years ago, ISIS claimed a cross-border caliphate stretching over vast swathes of north-western Iraq and eastern Syria. Fascinated by its rise, Muslim youths from all corners rapidly joined its cause. After three years of shocking violence, ISIS has faced major setbacks and has been in retreat (...)

What is Open Access, why should you make your research open and how can you do it at UWA? Find out why having an understanding of open access publishing is imperative for all researchers. This seminar is intended for UWA HDR students and academic staff. Registration required, please follow link to (...)

This presentation examines the early reception and popularity of Katsushika Hokusai’s Manga in late nineteenth-century Paris. A multi-volume series of diverse illustrations, the Manga arrived in France during a moment of cultural transition, and this talk will examine how the French (...)

This seminar will be presented by Prof. Rhonda Oliver, School of Education at Curtin University.

Abstract: Within the field of second language acquisition (SLA), there has been much less research undertaken with children than with adults, yet the two cohorts are quite distinct in (...)

This paper (a chapter from a recent edited collection on Cosmopolitanism, Markets and Consumption) explores the question of how people articulate (and challenge) the notion of ‘buying national’, and the extent to which they express a preference for cosmopolitan consumption. After an overview of (...)

Speaker: Cheryl Praeger (UWA)

Title: Derangement action digraphs and graphs

Time and place: Fri 04 May, 2018 in Weatherburn LT

Abstract: Derangement action digraphs are closely related to group action digraphs, which were introduced by Annexstein, Baumslag and (...)

A public lecture by Andrew Lynch, Professor of English and Cultural Studies, UWA.

The middle ages acquired a higher cultural prestige in nineteenth-century ideas of English national heritage. Literature exemplifying the spirit of medieval ‘chivalry’ was called on to offer behavioural (...)

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This event has been cancelled due to scheduled works that affect the site.

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UWA Publishing and The Centre for the History of Emotions warmly invite you to the book launch of The New Fortune Theatre: That (...)

Join us each week for a delightful musical surprise! From young artist-led concerts to informal musical drinks on the famous grassy knoll, behind-the-scenes workshops, lectures and masterclasses, these free weekly musical experiences will delight all music lovers.

Masterclasses are an (...)

Be transported from the everyday by our free lunchtime concert series, featuring the best musical talent from within the UWA Conservatorium of Music and around the country.

This week, be transported by the divine voices of the Winthrop Singers, supported by special guests Piñata (...)

The main aims of this paper are to (1) familiarise you with some diverse strands of my research, and (2) start a discussion about how they interface. Since 1994, I have been undertaking research with Warlpiri people, in the town of Yuendumu in central Australia. Yuendumu is one of four Warlpiri (...)

Speaker: Daniel Harvey (University of Western Australia)

Title: A cycle of maximum order in a graph of high minimum degree has a chord

Time and place: 4pm 11 May 2018, Weatherburn LT

Abstract: A long standing conjecture of Thomassen states that every cycle of (...)