What's On at UWA

Be transported from the everyday in our free lunchtime concert series, featuring the finest musical talent locally, nationally and within the School.

Free entry - no bookings required!

This week PiÃ±ata Percussion will perform a variety of works on 'Mostly Marimba'

13:00 - EVENT - Video Feedback: Engage students & enhance their learning experience : Helping provide a higher quality of feedback in the same amount of time.

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Research indicates the provision of video feedback on student assessments results in an overwhelmingly positive impact on engagement, performance and overall perception of the unit and its coordinator. Join Learning Technologists Liberty Cramer and Michelle Bunting from the Centre for Education (...)

17:30 - PERFORMANCE - School of Music presents - Fridays@5: Pi�ata Percussion - Mostly Marimba

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The ideal way to start your weekend, Fridays@Five offers unique musical experiences to delight all music lovers. See young artists be inspired through a variety of masterclasses, workshops, pre-concert talks, lectures and Q&A sessions. Delve deep into music or simply enjoy a free informal (...)

19:30 - PERFORMANCE - School of Music presents - Enrich! Glee Club, Ukulele and Percussion Sensation

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The School of Music offers a number of stimulating and enjoyable broadening units for all undergraduates studying at UWA.

Enrich! brings together these students in vibrant and dynamic ensemble performances.

This Friday the massive 70 plus member Ukulele Ensemble will be (...)

Monday 31

17:00 - EVENT - Psychology colloquium: Prof John Dunn (Adelaide)

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Psychology Colloquium

Monday 31st October 5-6pm in Bayliss MCS G.33, followed by post-talk drinks in the Psychology Courtyard (or, in bad weather, the Psychology Common Room, 2nd floor of main psychology building)

Presenter: Prof John Dunn (Adelaide)

Title: Testing (...)

November 2016

Tuesday 01

10:00 - SEMINAR - UWA Archaeology Honours & Postgraduate Information Session : For all students interested in pursuing a career in Archaeology and cognate fields

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> Honours is regarded as the minimum qualification to call oneself an ‘archaeologist’. > Wide range of dissertation topics available (Honours, Masters & PhD). > Explanation of how the Honours year works (and also Masters and PhD). > Information on what funding and resources are (...)

17:00 - SEMINAR - School of Music presents � Free Research Seminar : Honours Presentations III

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UWA School of Music is a vibrant centre for research in music and music education, where a thriving community of scholars is engaged in exploring the frontiers of knowledge, working on a wide range of research projects with diverse outputs.

A free weekly seminar series, with presenters (...)

Wednesday 02

18:00 - PUBLIC LECTURE - Art & the Heart: The Role of the Autonomic Nervous System & the Polyvagal Theory of Stephen Porges : A Public Lecture by Alexander Cohen

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In the late nineteenth century, the study of the human flourished – both as an entity of flesh, blood, bones and nerve tissue, and as a vehicle for emotion that was also subservient to external forces. This study was heavily influenced by the emergence of a school of hard-heads: practitioners of (...)

Monday 07

11:00 - SEMINAR - Like a Libyan Lion: Getting to Grips with Rage in Eighteenth-Century England : A CHE Seminar with Thomas Dixon

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This talk takes its title from an account in Daniel Defoe’s The Complete English Tradesman (1726) describing a shopkeeper of a fragile temper who was often enraged by the impertinence of his customers. Although the man maintained a polite and civilised exterior with his annoying customers, when (...)

Monday 14

17:00 - PERFORMANCE - School of Music Presents: Student Recitals

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Tuesday 15

8:30 - Course - Introductory Statistics : The course is open to anyone and is designed for people with little or no knowledge of statistics who want to develop understanding of basic statistics.

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The aim of this course is to introduce you to basic statistics. It will cover descriptive statistics (means and standard deviations); data exploration; basic categorical data analysis; simple linear regression and basic analysis of variance (ANOVA). The statistical package SPSS will be used to (...)

17:30 - PERFORMANCE - School of Music Presents: Student Recitals

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Each year the School of Music celebrates the amazing talent of our perfromance and composition students in a series of senior and graduation recitals.

We invite you to join us to help celebrate our students' endeavour and enjoy some wonderful free music.

Tuesday 15 November

18:30 - PUBLIC LECTURE - Voltaire and contemporary France Website | More Information

In the eighteenth century Voltaire waged a campaign against religious intolerance, and fought for victims who had suffered persecution by the Catholic Church. More broadly, he and other French philosophers of the Enlightenment sought to combat religious superstition and to encourage members of (...)