What's On at UWA

Professor Takayanagi combines his experiences as an orthopaedic surgeon and an immunologist; Since May 2012, he has been appointed as Professor of Department of Immunology, Graduate School of Medicine and Faculty of Medicine, The University of Tokyo. Professor Takayanagi has regularly published (...)

Professor Takayanagi combines his experiences as an orthopaedic surgeon and an immunologist; He studied in the laboratory of Professor Tadatsugu Taniguchi (The University of Tokyo) the mechanism of bone destruction in rheumatoid arthritis, which focused on the regulation of osteoclasts by T cells (...)

Is it unethical to conduct studies that are too large or too small? If so, how do we find the right balance based on the available resources? This seminar provides an overview of sample size calculations and demonstrates how to use the free "PS" software to perform simple sample size (...)

In the absence of large, randomised, well-controlled clinical trials (with independent replication) to address every research question we all need to increase our statistical literacy. We are often faced with the need to critically assess grant applications, manuscripts or reports without a (...)

Please join us to hear about the 2016/2017 Raine Medical Research Foundation funding programmes including Grants, Fellowships, Research Collaboration Awards, Visiting Professor Awards and Publication Prizes.

The Raine Foundation has allocated in excess of $36m for medical research since (...)

Presenter: A/Prof Paul Dux (UQ)

A/Prof Paul E. Dux is a psychologist and neuroscientist who received his PhD from Macquarie University and then undertook a postdoctoral fellowship at Vanderbilt University. He is a faculty member in the School of Psychology at The University of Queensland (...)

Team Purple Hearts was established in 2015, a group of Perth women with a passion to make a positive difference against women’s cancers. We took part in the Weekend to End Women’s Cancers™, a 2-day, 60km walk to raise vital funds for the Centre for Women’s Cancer Research.

The (...)

A public lecture by Jane Macnaughton, Professor of Medical Humanities, Durham University, UK and Co-Director of the Durham University Centre for Medical Humanities.

Can the arts and humanities make a real difference to clinical practice and research? This lecture takes up that challenge (...)

A public lecture by Paivi Hietanen, oncologist and psychotherapist, Helsinki.

As an oncologist and psychotherapist Paivi Hietanen has met many cancer patients and their family members who struggle with anxiety and depression when facing a life threatening illness. Her lecture will deal (...)

Find out about exchange opportunities to study overseas as part of your UWA degree including semester long and short term programs. Meet international students from UWA partner universities from all over the world and get advice on how an overseas experience can add to your UWA degree.

China in Conversation is a high-level public forum series presented by Confucius Institute at UWA on hot topics in various aspects of contemporary China, inviting experts from China and Australia to dialogue in order to exchange their views and thus to enhance mutual understanding of different (...)

CMCA@Perkins will be hosting this workshop. For bookings please email: cytometry.org.au/content/UpcomingMeetings. A one hour seminar will also be held on Tuesday 5 April. Dr Pratip Chattopadhyay is from the ImmunoTechnology Section, Vaccine Research Centre, NIH, and Thomas Ashhurst from the (...)

The Seminar: The contractile capacity of airway smooth muscle (ASM) is labile and an abundant literature reports that a great diversity of inflammatory mediators increases its contractile capacity. This acquired hypercontractility is allegedly implicated in the variable component of airway (...)

Presenter: Prof Brett Hayes

Brett Hayes is Professor of Cognitive Psychology at the University of New South Wales. He is a former Head of the School of Psychology at UNSW, and has held previous appointments at the University of Sydney, University of Newcastle, and honourary appointments (...)

Neurodegenerative diseases and disorders are a huge health and economic concern, for both developed and developing countries. Unfortunately, despite large research efforts, few successful therapies have been developed. In part, this is attributed to incomplete understanding of the chemical (...)

On behalf of the organising committee of the Symposium of WA Neuroscience (SWAN), in association with the Neurotrauma Research Program of WA and supported by the WA Neuroscience Research Institute, the Australasian Neuroscience Society and Murdoch University, it is my pleasure to announce that (...)

UWA encourages its researchers to be proactive and plan early for applications to competitive grant schemes. With the move to continuous rounds of the ARC Linkage program from the 1st July, it is more important than ever to plan ahead! To help you in this regard, the UWA Research Development team (...)

This course aims to provide you with an introduction to the facilities available in MS Excel from a statistical point of view. As well as an introduction to Excel, spreadsheet functions and graphics, it concentrates on performing basic statistical methods, producing charts and tables, and discusses (...)

Professor David Lawrence from the Telethon Kids Institute and the Faculty of Education will present key results from Young Minds Matter, and will also draw on findings from Student Attendance and Educational Outcomes: Every Day Counts and the Western Australian Aboriginal Child Health Survey to (...)

A training workshop for researchers and students who are looking to involve consumers and community members in health and medical research. This workshop is designed to help: • Increase awareness of the value of involvement • Develop understanding and skills on the ‘how and why’ of (...)