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June 2018
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Saturday 16 |
9:30 - COURSE - Read with Speed - Back by popular demand! : Double your reading speed and improve your comprehension
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In this course you will learn how to double your reading speed, improve your comprehension and memory. You will also learn how to quickly process the large amount of written information that we all deal with daily in our lives, from reading for leisure, to business activities or academic studies.
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Thursday 28 |
17:00 - OPEN DAY - Telethon Kids Institute (Centre for Child Health Research) - Prospective Student Evening : An information evening for students interested in completing HDR or Honours courses at the Telethon Kids Institute
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Telethon Kids Institute (UWA's Centre for Child Health Research) invites all prospective Honours, M.D., and higher degree by research students to join us for the evening to learn more about becoming a student with us!
Our supervisors will be speaking to students about their student (...)
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July 2018
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Friday 13 |
11:00 - UWA Research Event - Research Impact Series : Discover how our world-leading researchers are tackling global, national and regional issues to make the world a better place.
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Research Impact Series Events:
Cosmos: Journey Through the Universe Thursday. 9 August, 18 October and 8 November 2018
Germaine Greer On Rape: Monday 3 September 2018
Raising the Bar Perth: 10 bars, 10 topics, 1 night only. Tuesday 11 September 2018
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August 2018
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Friday 17 |
8:30 - STUDENT EVENT - Student Innovation Challenge : REGISTER NOW - Get a team together, get creative to win!
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Get together with a group of your mates to develop a creative yet insightful solution to the problem posed.
You must register to attend take part in this event.
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Wednesday 22 |
The McCusker Centre for Citizenship at UWA, in partnership with the Rotary Club of Perth, invite you to the 2018 Sir Wallace Kyle Oration.
The late Air Chief Marshall, Sir Wallace Kyle, was an Honorary Doctor of Laws at The University of Western Australia and Governor of Western (...)
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Tuesday 28 |
13:00 - SEMINAR - A Comparative Sports Culture Study between Europeans, North Americans and a Modern Muslim Nation : School of Human Sciences Seminar Series - 28 August
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Abstract: This study compared cultural attitudes and beliefs in American, Italian, German, Turkish and Swiss/French samples. A total of 800 (between 18-70 years old) mostly from American, Italian, German, Turkish and Swiss/French universities responded to an online survey. Europeans, including (...)
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September 2018
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Tuesday 11 |
19:30 - EVENT - Friends of the Library : Lead Kindly Light - Harold Rowell’s Emergency Landing at Fitzroy Crossing, 31 July 1971
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Harold Rowell was an experienced pilot with MacRobertson Miller Airlines (MMA). He had served as a pilot in the Second World War and joined MMA as a commercial pilot in 1948. The introduction of jet aircraft to service the Pilbara and the North West in the 1970s meant that many of the gravel (...)
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October 2018
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Saturday 13 |
10:00 - CONFERENCE - TEDxUWA 2018: Turning Points : TEDxUWA returns for its third annual conference dedicated to ideas worth spreading!
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WHAT'S YOUR TURNING POINT?
WELCOME TO TEDxUWA 2018
The theme for this year is Turning Points. With an amazing line up of 10 inspirational speakers from the UWA community and beyond, get ready for a day of excitement, entertainment and enlightenment.
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Saturday 20 |
16:30 - FESTIVAL - Pingelly Astrofest : Pingelly Astrofest is a free family-friendly event to celebrate astronomy, science and the Western Australian night sky, and is hosted by UWA Farm Ridgefield and the International Centre for Radio Astronomy Research (ICRAR).
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UWA Farm Ridgefield and the International Centre for Radio Astronomy Research (ICRAR) are hosting a community based festival event to celebrate astronomy and Australian science on Saturday, 20 October 2018!
The event will feature fun and engaging activities in a beautiful rural setting (...)
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Tuesday 30 |
8:00 - CONFERENCE - 2018 Western Australian Indo-Pacific Defence Conference : Conference
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While the trend toward an increasingly integrated Indo-Pacific was initially viewed from the perspective of economics, trade and energy flows, it is increasingly apparent that the rise of the Indo-Pacific era also has major implications for national defence and regional security.
The 2018 Western (...)
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November 2018
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Tuesday 27 |
R is a free and extremely powerful language and software environment for statistical computing, data analysis, and graphics. This course is designed for those who have no experience with R, but have a basic understanding of statistics. Those without this knowledge are encouraged to attend the (...)
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December 2018
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Wednesday 12 |
18:30 - SCREENING - �Dying to Live� screening 12/12/18 Windsor Cinema : Life on the organ donation waiting list
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The Lions Eye Institute is hosting a screening of the ‘Dying to Live’ documentary on December 12th at the Windsor Cinema in Nedlands.
The documentary delves into life on the organ donation waiting list, the complex world of organ and tissue transplantation and the heart-wrenching stories of (...)
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January 2019
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Wednesday 30 |
12:00 - FREE LECTURE - Community of Practice Lunch and Learn : Amazing opportunity to learn about virtual reality with your colleagues from throughout the University
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UWA academics are cordially invited to the inaugural ‘Lunch & Learn’ event run by our new UWA ‘Teaching Innovations’ Community of Practice. The focus of this event will be VR in Higher Education. The event will be held on Wednesday 30th January, 2019 from 12 noon to 1.30pm in the Fay (...)
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May 2019
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Wednesday 01 |
With a few tweaks you can improve your writing, whether it’s for work, a blog or personal correspondence. Linguist Daniel Midgley presents a fun and easy crash course in English grammar. Along the way, he’ll show you how language really works. Some well-placed commas will make you feel better.
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June 2019
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Tuesday 11 |
9:00 - COURSE - A Course in Rasch Measurement Theory : A Course in Rasch Measurement Theory in collaboration with The University of Sydney will take place 11 & 12 July 2019 and 15 - 19 July 2019.
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Rasch models for measurement are used in large scale national and international assessments, not only to analyse test data after collection, but to use as criteria for design of test items and their administration. The GSE Psychometric Laboratory undertakes research and development for application (...)
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Saturday 15 |
0:00 - WORKSHOP - Youth Mental Health First Aid : For adults who work, live or care for adolescents and young people.
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Learn how to assist adolescents or young people who are developing a mental illness, experiencing a worsening of an existing mental health problem or in a mental health crisis, until appropriate professional help is received or the crisis resolves.
The 14-hour Youth Mental Health First (...)
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July 2019
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Wednesday 24 |
9:30 - EVENT - Research Impact Series - Achieving Your Research Outcomes : Wed 24 Jul and Thur 25 Jul 2019
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Achieving Your Research Outcomes is series of 12 events for UWA researchers, staff and postgraduate students to learn about the processes and functions that can help you achieve your research outcomes.
Sessions will run in succession at the Hemsley Learning Suite, Reid Library during (...)
Grammar holds sentences together, but it also communicates who you are. With the skills found in this course, you will gain a more advanced understanding of the grammar of English, and use this knowledge to make your writing more clear. This course is directly focused on writing, and gives you (...)
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August 2019
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Tuesday 06 |
16:00 - EVENT - Team and Unit Level Approaches to Embedding Research into Curriculum : UWA Community of Practice Information Sharing
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At our last CoP we got to consider how inquiry based learning offers a core way in which to embed research skills into curriculum; as reflected in this quote from the Boyer Commission suggesting “the basic idea of learning as inquiry is the same as the idea of research” (1998, p.17)
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Tuesday 13 |
10:00 - WORKSHOP - Echo 360 Essentials : A professional development workshop for UWA staff with a teaching support role.
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Explore the active learning potential and video management options within the Lecture Capture system; from capture sharing to student features and analytics.
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