What's On at UWA

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 (...)

In this public lecture Professor Peter Eastwood, Head of the Centre for Sleep Science at UWA, will discuss the causes of sleep apnoea and its current treatments. He will talk about the cause of sleep apnoea, and in particular the importance of the structures of the face, head and neck.

Our Science Experience event is now open for registration!

UWA/ConocoPhillips Science/Engineering Experience - 19-21 January 2016!

Budding scientists/engineers in Years 9/10 (this year) are welcomed to UWA’s campus for three days of fun and to fuel their passion for science (...)

Lake Seppings is a vital wetland for Albany. It is the place of the 'tjuirtgellong': the long-neck turtle. The area is significant as a resting and nesting place for birdlife. Join Dr Leah Beesley and Geraldine Janicke for an informative presentation. The event commences with a birdwalk at 8am (...)

Over the last decades, the world has discussed the continuing use of our limited natural resources and the production of waste and contaminating materials. Some alarming figures show that our lifestyles are not sustainable and that some changes need to be made. This is particularly relevant to the (...)

Chaired by Professor Stephen D. Hopper AC from UWA’s Centre of Excellence in Natural Resource Management (CENRM), the inaugural Great Southern International Colloquium on Biodiversity will focus on global advances in understanding of granite outcrop organisms, including their relationships with (...)

Get close up and personal with the granite rock environment and all its secrets during this unique event. Professor Stephen Hopper and a team of international experts will lead a stimulating and inclusive excursion to local granite outcrops. They will share their knowledge and expertise in a (...)

Join Friends of UWA Albany for an entertaining public lecture with the West Australian Ballet. Starting from the beginnings of ballet as an art form, to the history and people of West Australian Ballet, and through to the processes of putting on a production such as Five by Night, showing at the (...)

The democratic system touches our everyday lives. In our current democracy what is the role of political parties? How can the democratic system be reformed to make it more effective? Come and enjoy afternoon tea and explore this topic.

Professor Lydon will review the history of collecting Australian Aboriginal photographs and discuss the many ways that Aboriginal people are now using them. Archival photographs of Aboriginal people were amassed during the colonial period for a range of purposes, yet rarely to further an Indigenous (...)