What's On at UWA

The Education Centre at the Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences runs a series of 'Talking about Teaching' workshop/seminars to support the development of teaching skills for academic, clinical academic and seasonal teaching staff.

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A Novice's Approach to Using Excel is designed to enable participants to better understand the essential concepts of spreadsheets and to enable them to demonstrate their ability to use a spreadsheet application on a personal computer. Participants will practice developing, formatting and using a (...)

This workshop will provide you with a broad overview of the operation of Human Resources at UWA. Issues covered will include: * Human Resources - what is it? * Staff development and organisational development services * Equity and diversity - your rights and responsibilities * Enterprise (...)

In this workshop you will discuss the basic principles of Problem Based Learning. Discussions will include advantages and disadvantages of PBL and some areas of curriculum development, problem writing and tutor training.

At the completion of this workshop you should be able to:

In this session you will learn about personal profile set-up, search functionality, navigation, managing searches and bibliometric tools.

Content will include: personal profile set-up, search functionality, navigation, managing searches and bibliometric tools.

This seminar involves a look at self worth and self esteem, and how to reinforce a positive self view. The course focuses on identifying what self esteem is and how it develops along with an outline of the strategies which contribute to a having a positive view of yourself. Self-esteem needs to be (...)

This workshop is a follow-up to An Introduction to Problem-Based Learning.

This workshop is recommended to those implementing PBL activities into their teaching as it addresses some of the specific considerations, particularly related to group work, that are likely to arise.

We recruit the best staff – but also need to retain them. This workshop will explore the strategies that managers may employ in ensuring staff are effectively assisted to achieve their best. Issues relating to induction programmes, performance management, PDR reviews and development of staff will (...)

Microsoft Outlook can be used to combine all your information from your email, calendar and to-do list in a single view that will save you time and reduce frustration. Unfortunately the default setup for Outlook may make that goal harder to reach than it needs to be.. This workshop will demonstrate (...)

Pivot Tables for the Novice is designed to enable participants to better understand the use of pivot tables to analyse data.

After completing this workshop, participants should be able to: * Make “sense” out of a dataset thru a pivot table * Use the available wizard to create and (...)

Effective research must be carefully planned to achieve the best outcomes for the researcher/s, the university and the furthering of knowledge. This module explores the initial stage of research project management: designing and costing the project as well as operating within the broader research (...)

Australia is sometimes portrayed as a dangerous place, bulging with an array of deadly animals. Envenoming syndromes (toxicity due directly to the venom) occur most commonly to snake and redback spider bites on land and a variety of jellyfish in the sea. However the majority of deaths are caused by (...)

A workshop by Distinguished Visiting Teacher, Dr Chris Rust. Dr Rust is being brought to Australia by the ALTC.

The importance of assessment, and especially feedback, and its effect on student learning, and students’ approaches to learning, is widely acknowledged in the literature. But (...)

Intended Outcomes: By the end of the workshop participants will have a better understanding of: * What can be packaged * Why some items are not available * What is Fringe Benefit Tax (FBT) * The range of item available to be packaged * How to commence salary package

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Any staff member with a fixed term or ongoing appointment that wishes to gain a better understanding of what salary packaging is and how employees can benefit by reducing tax paid and increasing take home pay. By the end of the workshop participants will have a better understanding of: *What can (...)

Intended Outcomes: A presentation followed by question time on salary packaging a car under a Novated Lease agreement. A novated lease is a form of vehicle financing which delivers attractive benefits to both employers and employees. It allows employees to include a vehicle of their choice as part (...)

A presentation followed by question time on salary packaging a car under a Novated Lease agreement. A novated lease is a form of vehicle financing which delivers attractive benefits to both employers and employees. It allows employees to include a vehicle of their choice as part of their salary (...)

ATEM presents an outstanding opportunity to participate in a discussion with one of Australia's leading higher education policy analysts, Dr Gavin Moodie, on far-reaching changes in policy and funding, and their implications for managers.

Most of the discussion of the Government's higher (...)

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 (...)