What's On at UWA

Deep-rooted eucalyptus, tree and shrub members of the Banksia family engage in mining deeply located minerals elements and construct therefrom “pavements” of clay, ferricrete, humicrete or calcium carbonate in upper regions of their respective rooting profiles. Presence of such layers optimizes (...)

Field stations, marine laboratories, and research centers in protected areas comprise much of the ecosystem diversity in the US and as such, serve as centres of scientific discovery, mentoring, intellectual curiosity, and serendipitous communities of scholars. The University of California Natural (...)

Dr Lourens D.Mus, FRSA, will present on all the research about music in our daily lives.

Dr. Alan Lourens directs the Orchestra, Wind Ensemble and Brass Ensemble, as well as teaching conducting, pedagogy and courses in music education. Dr. Lourens holds a Doctorate in Conducting and (...)

Many of Australia's freshwater fish undertake migrations upstream and downstream in rivers at various times during their life. Adult fish may migrate for reproduction and juveniles often undertake migrations from nursery areas to their adult habitats. In some species, eggs and larvae undertake (...)

Join local historian and WA Museum Public Programs Officer Malcolm Traill as he delves into the stories and history behind some of Albany’s most iconic buildings. Commencing at the Albany Town Hall, we will meet some of the characters that made Albany famous. This leisurely stroll down York St (...)

South-western Australia is a “biodiversity hot spot” but that description has a formal basis defined internationally only by plant species richness, and, threat. Animal diversity in south-western Australia is comparatively less well known: many of us know about unique species, e.g. quokkas (...)

Nicholas Bannan will illustrate the role that choral music plays in the education of students at the University of Western Australia, focusing on the development of skills required to perform the service of Evensong weekly at St George's College. He will explore with the choir the issues that have (...)

Prof. Hopper will consider the evolutionary history and conservation prospects of the State's flora, with special focus on the globally renowned Southwest Australian Floristic Region, one of the world's 25 biodiversity Hotspots. This rich flora on old landscape is threatened due to European land-use (...)

You may not be aware that the UWA Albany Campus offers: • Full degrees in a range of majors in Arts, Science and Education. • First year units in Commerce. • The opportunity to complete 12 to 18 months of any degree in Albany. • The opportunity to study cross-institutionally. UWA can (...)

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

This year there will be campus tram tours, hands-on activities, live music and entertainment, as well as plenty (...)

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 (...)