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Connect your career to the world, enhance your degree and improve employment prospects with postgraduate courses in Integrated Human Studies and Science Communication. Investigate postgraduate educational possibilities with course coordinators Prof Neville Bruce and Assoc Prof Nancy Longnecker.

PASW Statistics (formerly SPSS, Statistical Package for the Social Sciences) is a data management and analysis package used extensively in health research in WA.

It is available in hospitals, universities, government and other organisations. It is possible to 'teach yourself' with (...)

This is an intensive five-day course on the theory and practice of analysis of large sets of linked administrative health data at an introductory to intermediate level.

Rapid growth in data linkage projects has led to a shortfall in analyst skills.

Some researchers understand (...)

Increased demand for feedstocks to meet Australia's biofuels goals include many uncertainties such as what types of feedstocks will be used, at what prices, grown where, and with what implications for greenhouse gases and sustainability?

Adjustments in the agricultural sector to this (...)

Two-Day Media Skills Workshop

9am to 5pm on December 4 & 11, 2009

The University of Western Australia, Crawley, WA

Have you ever wondered… What makes a media friendly story? Why doesn’t the story look like the information I provided? Why do I feel at the media’s (...)

This is an intensive five-day course on the theory and practice of analysis of large sets of linked administrative health data at an intermediate to advanced level. Course outline

Advanced principles of health care epidemiology are combined with hands-on practical exercises in the (...)

A free public lecture by Nobel Laureate Carl Wieman, Director of the Carl Wieman Science Education Initiative

Research on how people learn is now revealing how many teachers misinterpret what students are thinking and learning from traditional science classes and exams. However, research (...)

Health informatics is a relatively new scientific discipline that incorporates knowledge from biomedicine, computer science, information science, psychology, business and other fields.

It deals with the systematic processing of data, information and knowledge in health in order to (...)

The steady increase in the number of processing cores being used in modern hardware architectures is forcing engineers to rethink the way they design software by focusing on scalability through concurrency, and effective scheduling of resources.

This course will concentrate on teaching (...)

The Science Experience (formerly Siemens Science Experience) is a three-day program of events aimed at high school students about to enter Year 10, and will be held at UWA from the 19th to the 21st of January 2010.

It aims to showcase the courses and facilities available to future (...)