What's On at UWA

Food shouldn’t be intimidating, and neither should science. This belief has led scientist and season 3 ‘My Kitchen Rules’ contestants Emma Donnelly and her husband Andrew start Culinary Science to help demystify science. They are passionate about food and enjoy experimenting with fresh (...)

Find out about UWA Albany’s undergraduate and postgraduate courses, scholarship opportunities, outstanding career options and explore our community programs and facilities.

This year course advisers will be available to provide career and course advice and Centrelink will provide (...)

Sarah Drummond is the author of the fishing memoir 'Salt Story: of sea dogs and fisherwomen'. She completed an arts degree at UWA's Albany Campus. Sarah is now writing a history/fiction doctorate about the community of sealers who lived in King George Sound on the threshold of West Australian (...)

Scientific innovations and new knowledge often languish in academic journals or percolate within contained scientific communities, greatly limiting real world impacts they may have across many sectors, including health, education, and human services more generally. The last decade has seen an (...)

The Great War saw a radical shift in poetic representations of warfare, of the experience of ordinary men in theatres of war, and of the understandings of heroism, patriotism, and propaganda. Poetry was used as part of the propaganda machine, but also, for the first time, began to be used as a (...)

In 1965 the Commonwealth Conciliation and Arbitration Commission made a socially and economically just decision to award Equal Wages to Northern Aboriginal Pastoral Workers; men and women who had lived and worked for long under a welfare based, but largely unpaid social regime. However the (...)

A moderated discussion on atruism, this Philosophy Cafe will cover questions including what do we mean by altruism and why is altruism a problem for evolutionary biologists. The human context in the sense of giving without expectation of reward will also be discussed. There will be lots of (...)

Andrea di Robilant will look at how the Venetian Republic managed its rich and complex relationship with the Muslim world in the course of three centuries of trade, diplomacy and war, through the perspective of one powerful Venetian family: the Zens.

Andrea di Robilant is an Italian (...)

South-western Australia is a global biodiversity hotspot, where the greatest plant diversity is found on the most severely phosphorus-impoverished soils in kwongan (or kwongkan). Mycorrhizas are known to enhance plant P acquisition, but non-mycorrhizal plant families (e.g., Proteaceae) feature most (...)

Traditionally, mental health conditions are seen as a 'clinical problem'. The focus has typically been on diagnosing 'the problem' and then attempting to eliminate it via treatment and therapy. From the perspecitve of someone who has both occupied senior roles within UK mental health services and (...)

Tracing their tradition back to the work of Samuel Palmer, neo-Romantic artists in Britain found that their spiritualised vision of the landscape and their notion of genius loci (spirit of place) resonated with the sentiments of their public at the outbreak of the Second World War. The British (...)

In order to address the question - Is there intelligent life beyond our solar system? we must first address a number of smaller questions including, How common are life-friendly planetary systems like our own solar system?

Science has been vital for the devleopment of Western Australia and will be crucial for the future of this State. As Chief Scientist of Western Australia, Professor Peter Klinken provides advice on topics that are important to the future of science in Western Australia.

Keith Bradby, Chief Executive Officer of Gondwana Link, will outline the growth of the Gondwana Link program over the past 13 years, focusing on what has been achieved and what is left to be done. He will discuss what, from his perspective, have been the critical ingredients in its persistence and (...)

Professor Joy Damousi considers the ways in which the sounds of the battlefield and the home front during the Great War defined the memory of the war and elicited a range fo emotional responses.

Parents, teachers and students are invited to visit the UWA Albany Centre to find out about study opportunities available at The University of Western Australia. UWA advisers will be on hand to provide advice and information on entry requirements, courses, study options and scholarships. Visitors (...)

Until recently many scientists thought that Australia's plants mostly evolved from plants that lived in rainforests that covered Australia 50 million years ago. We now have fossils showing that the Australia's sclerophyll flora extends much deeper in time, back at least 70 million years.

South Western Australia supports a unique freshwater fish fauna including a high proportion of species that are found nowhere else in the world. Many of these are showing declines in distribution and abundance due to a variety of environmental and human influences including habitat destruction (...)

Between 1939 and 1941 middle-aged housewife Leonarda Cianciulli killed three women in the small northern Italian town of Correggio. She - or so goes the legend - boiled the bodies into saop and made teacakes with their coagulated blood. Was Cianciulli simply mad, a deranged woman who regarded her (...)

Honeybees and their pollination services are important for the production of about a third of what we eat. However, massive losses of bees have been reported globally over the last decade. In some regions where bees have now been entirely lost, trees now need to be pollinated by hand. He will (...)