What's On at UWA

Join us for UWA Albany Open Day, Thursday 24 August 2017. This is a great opportunity for students, parents and anyone interested in finding out all that UWA Albany has to offer. Course advisers will be available to provide advice on study options and opportunities.

Increase your confidence and maximise your performance. Receive expert teaching from ATAR subject specialists with top tips and strategies to achieve maximum marks. Gain insight into how to best approach your ATAR exams. Cost $197.

Increase your confidence and maximise your performance. Receive expert teaching from ATAR subject specialists with top tips and strategies to achieve maximum marks. Gain insight into how to best approach your ATAR exams. Cost $197.

Wesfarmers Managing Director Richard Goyder will reflect on his career success and leadership challenges and share his plans for the future. While about to stand down from his leadership role at Wesfarmers, Mr Goyder dismisses any notion of retirement. His plans to build his farm and take on a (...)

Dr Rob Holt will discuss his passion for surfing and his curiosity that led him research the connection between surfing and science.

This is an opportunity to meet with others to discuss a topic of interest. Aspects for discussion will include our understanding of the environment and the economy and their importance to our lives. Are they separate spheres or inter-related? Is one more important than the other? Can we have one (...)

This symposium brings together a panel of experts from across Australia to discuss ways to support regional and remote students to succeed in higher education. The purpose is to explore the value of investing in higher education from the perspective of the individual, community and the university (...)

With a global army surpassing 30 million, surfing has escalated from an underground lifestyle into a mainstream colossus. Dr Holt's research investigated a unique population of the surfing culture, the Cape Naturaliste surfing subculture. Located in the South West of Western Australia, Cape (...)

Social farming offers people with a range of social and health issues (including mental health, physical or intellectual disability, elder care) who experience social marginalisation, the opportunity to engage in the farming and related social activities of their communities. Deirdre O'Connor is a (...)

The human species evolved and dispersed across the globe as part of small kin-based groups. Family networks and family histories continue to be a crucial way in which people everywhere understand their place in the world and their connections to others, past and present. Notions of relatedness (...)

Renewable energy currently contributes 14% of power in Australia, the majority from hydro, wind, bioenergy and solar. Increasingly attention is turning to the opportunity of producing renewable energy from the oceans. Wave, tidal and floating wind power are all possibilities, but research and (...)

Dr Nicholas Bannan introduces the repertoire of The Winthrop Singers, directing the choir in highlights of their repertoire that spans the centuries from the ecstatic chant of German nun Hildegard of Bingen to a composition by a current member of the choir. Nicholas will place in context the (...)

UWA Albany staff and students recognise students who will complete their course in 2017 and celebrate the academic achievement of those who have excelled throughout the year.

Representatives from all the WA universities will be available to provide information on admissions, courses, study options and university life.

A haven for Black intellectuals, artists and revolutionaries – and path of promise toward the American dream – Black colleges and universities have educated the architects of freedom movements and cultivated leaders in every field. For the first time ever, their story is told. Assistant (...)

The Great Southern Speaker Series, a collaboration between the City of Albany, South Coast NRM, UWA Albany and Great Southern Development Commission are pleased to present its first event for the year: Rachel Cooke, US Consul General. Ms Cooke will be ‘in conversation’ with the ABC’s (...)

Come hear some of Western Australia’s brightest young guitarists on the UWA Guitar Studio's third annual tour of WA's southwest. Students of Dr Jonathan Fitzgerald will perform an exciting program of solo and ensemble repertoire for guitar, ranging from Baroque favourites to the 21st century (...)

Adverse Mental Health begins in childhood and adolescence. The Australian National Survey shows 35% of young persons in schools have a diagnosable mental health disorder or sub-threshold symptoms! This has a ignificant negative impact on educational achievement, social and health outcomes (...)

Young string musicians from the Great Southern will perform chamber music following a weekend of workshops. Entry by donation.

Conductor Burhan Guner will take a journey through the history of Australian classical music from Percy Grainger to the present. Along the way he will discuss and play excerpts from compositions which will be performed in Albany Chamber Orchestra’s Opus Australia Gala Concert in the Albany (...)