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November 2015
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Saturday 14 |
14:00 - PUBLIC LECTURE - HOW SOAP OPERAS CAN CHANGE THE WORLD : Building communities for a sustainable world
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William Ryerson is founder and President of Population Media Centre, and President of the Population Institute. For over 40 years he has worked in the field of reproductive health, including two decades of experience adapting the Sabido methodology for behaviour change communications to various (...)
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Tuesday 17 |
18:00 - PUBLIC TALK - "Mum and Dad, it's your turn to grow up" � kids becoming teenagers
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A public lecture by Elina Hermanson, Head of Adolescent Health Services, City of Helsinki, Finland.
As an adolescent medicine physician, Elina Hermanson meets teens with worries and sorrows that need the attention of a professional. Some have obvious troubles that could have been (...)
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Thursday 19 |
15:00 - EVENT - Online Survey for Parents : How children develop a sense of self.
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PhD Student of Psychology, Kate Derry, is looking at how sense of self develops in children. In particular, how trait narcissism functions in children, if and how it differs from high self-esteem and what factors contribute to its development.
We are looking for parents with children or (...)
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Monday 23 |
8:30 - Course - Model Selection in R : This course focuses on model selection techniques for linear and generalised linear regression
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This course focuses on model selection techniques for linear and generalised linear regression in two scenarios: when an extensive search of the model space is possible as well as when the dimension is large and either stepwise algorithms or regularization techniques have to be employed to identify (...)
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Tuesday 24 |
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 (...)
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Monday 30 |
Offered through the UWA Centre for Aboriginal Medical and Dental Health CAMDH, this unit offers an overview of Aboriginal lifestyle. It focusses on traditional and environmental responsibilities and the social practices of Indigenous communities during pre and post colonial times, followed by an (...)
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December 2015
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Tuesday 01 |
8:30 - CANCELLED - Course - Multivariate Analysis : The course is intended as an introduction to some of the more commonly used multivariate statistical methods of data summary and analysis.
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Unfortunately this event has been cancelled.
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Topics will include Principal Component Analysis, Factor Analysis, Canonical Variate (or Canonical Correlation) Analysis, Discriminant Analysis, Cluster Analysis (...)
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Thursday 10 |
Interested in developing and funding international research collaborations, particularly in the fields of Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences? Come hear how others have been able to do so, and learn how you can be more strategic in your approach.
The Seminar will run from 12:00 - 1:00 (...)
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January 2016
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Wednesday 27 |
12:00 - SEMINAR - Statistical Guidelines for Public Health : This seminar will use examples from the medical literature to bridge the statistical literacy gap and will indicate when it is time to consult the statisticians.
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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 (...)
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February 2016
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Monday 22 |
9:00 - EVENT - UWA Careers Centre - Management Consulting Days : Six management consulting firms on campus during O Week.
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Find out what opportunities are available in management consulting. Six firms will present over 2 days. This is your chance to meet and network with employers.
Presentation/Networking (Mon 22 February):
9.00am-10.30am: McKinsey and Company
10.30am-12.00pm: Bain (...)
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March 2016
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Tuesday 01 |
15:00 - SEMINAR - Raine Medical Research Foundation Seminar : New procedure for Raine Programs – Open to all medical researchers in Western Australia
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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 (...)
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Friday 04 |
11:00 - EVENT - The Big Meet Perth - FRIDAY 4TH MARCH 2016 : Meet Australia's leading organisations to talk about your future.
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You are invited to join many of Australia's leading organisations at the year’s most important free careers event – The Big Meet.
Whether you're looking for graduate employment, a new job, vacation work, an international internship, a gap-year experience, voluntary work, travel (...)
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Tuesday 22 |
13:00 - SEMINAR - TOMORROW! - UWA Sessional Staff Association Seminar : A seminar to inform casual staff about opportunities and organisations on campus.
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The UWA Sessional Staff Association was founded by UWA sessional staff as an open and welcoming space for the discussion of issues of relevance to casual teaching staff, including professional development and recognition within the university. We are holding an introductory seminar to inform (...)
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April 2016
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Monday 18 |
12:00 - EVENT - "Plan on a Page" Workshops : Learn about this new tool to help you draft a compelling and comprehensive case to research funders.
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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 (...)
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Tuesday 19 |
8:30 - Short course - Introduction to statistics using Microsoft Excel : The course is open to anyone and is designed for those who have little or no experience with statistics or Microsoft Excel but who would like to learn more.
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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 (...)
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Wednesday 27 |
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 (...)
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May 2016
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Tuesday 03 |
16:00 - EVENT - Psychology Colloquium: Prof Richard Ryan (U Rochester and ACU)
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Psychology colloquium
Tuesday 3rd May in Bayliss MCS G.33, with post-talk drinks in the Psychology Courtyard (or in bad weather, the Psychology Common Room on the 2nd floor of the main psychology bldg.)
Presenter: Prof Richard Ryan
Richard M. Ryan is a clinical (...)
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Friday 06 |
Respected educationalist Erin Knight will introduce and expand on the themes in this exhibition that offer a firsthand look at being young and Muslim in modern Australia.
This event will include a discussion of practical links for art teachers to the new K-10 Western Australian (...)
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Friday 27 |
15:00 - FREE LECTURE - Children are not rockets : Growth, patterns and processes in the language development of preschool and early primary school children
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Australian children have been the focus of pioneering studies of early language development. These contemporary Australian population studies of language growth and patterns over time are producing a vastly different picture from the boutique studies of the early 1970’s that positioned language (...)
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Tuesday 31 |
16:00 - EVENT - Psychology Colloquium: Prof Sally Andrews (U Sydney) : 6488 3267
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Psychology Colloquium:
Tuesday 31st May 4-5pm in Bayliss MCS G.33, followed by post- talk drinks in the Psychology Courtyard (or in really bad weather, the Psychology Common Room, 2nd floor of main psychology building)
Presenter: Prof Sally Andrews (U Sydney)
Sally (...)
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