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UWA CPD Health presents a Multidisciplinary CPD seminar on Saturday June 8th 2013. In association with the Diabetes and Endocrine Health Network and Diabetes WA, UWA CPD Health is presenting a unique education seminar on Diabetes: Priorities, targets & the annual cycle of care. The event represents a great opportunity to understand patient management from all perspectives and strengthen collaboration and develop referral pathways between health care providers. Open to ALL members of the multidisciplinary health care team. This seminar is eligible for 6 active learning hours for CPD with optional assessment. Seminar attendance is fully catered for at the UWA Club OR online access is available through the Universities' Lecture Capture System.

The rules and details of UWA's Three Minute Thesis Competition will be described, and guidance will be given on how to present a talk suitable for this event. Doctoral and Masters Researchers, ECRs and academics within 7 years of PhD completion are eligible to compete.

In Australia there has been a recent drive to look more closely at the real-world impact of research paid for with public funding, as evidenced by the 2012 joint ATN / Go8 'Excellence in Innovation' assessment trial. David Pannell, whose research was well rated in the trial, will discuss his thoughts on understanding and measuring impact, as well as strategies to increase the impact of research.

This course covers material ranging from Kaplan Meier curves to the analysis of censored data and Cox's proportional hazards models.

Participants must bring their own laptop with R installed.

This course covers techniques that can be used to analyse data with continuous and categorical variables. The course will begin with simple linear regression and then proceed with approaches that can be used with more than two variables such as multiple regression. ANOVA with interactions and blocking will also be covered. The course will end with techniques that address the analysis of binary or ordinal variables.

Subsidised fees are available for UWA Graduate Research Students.

The task for the 10 finalists is to give an engaging talk on their PhD topic and it's significance in language that everyone can understand - in just 3 minutes. The audience will vote for its People's Choice.

Come and find out about our undergraduate and postgraduate courses, career options, scholarship opportunities, our valuable research, community programs and facilities.

There's also residential college tours, hands-on activities, live music, entertainment, and plenty of fun activities for the whole family as we celebrate our 100th birthday.

Are you an aspiring or novice leader? Are you interested in lifting student achievement?

Here you will engage in roundtable discussion of strategies to raise student performance. Speakers will share their insights into transforming organisations from good to great.

Welcome to the Western Australian public sector and the never ending possibilities of working for the Government and contributing to the administration of the State. The public sector is made up of a wide range of government departments and agencies with locations throughout the whole of Western Australia. Although you may gain employment for one particular agency within the public sector you belong to a much larger workforce. Newly appointed public sector employees are given the opportunity to contribute to the efficient and effective administration of the State of Western Australia.

The variety of jobs in the public sector is huge - all students from all disciplines welcome.

Bookings on CareerHub - http://uwa.careerhub.com.au

The Seminar:The Raine Study is one of the largest successful prospective cohorts of pregnancy, childhood, adolescence and now young adulthood in the world. It began in 1989 at King Edward Memorial Hospital with the recruitment of 2,900 pregnant women in early pregnancy. These families were followed through pregnancy and 2,868 children born to the mothers have been reviewed in detail at ages 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 10, 14, 17, 18, 20 and now at 23 years of age. Each member of the cohort has over 95,000 measures of health and disease and demographic data as well as information on more than 2.5 million genetic variants. The prospective longitudinal design of the Raine Study allows causal pathways of complex conditions such as cardiovascular, respiratory and psychiatric disease to be investigated. The Raine Study has already contributed to scientific research in many ways and led to novel discoveries across a range of disciplines, particularly childhood diseases.Since its inception in 1989, research studies using the Raine Study have generated more than $12.6 million from 27 grant applications from 12 funding bodies, the largest funding ($9.5 million) coming from the National Health & Medical Research Council. Research output has been increasing exponentially with over 130 research papers published in the past 3 years. The Raine Study is now moving into the adult years. At 23 years old, the cohort is well placed to assess the effects of the disturbing transition of obesity onset from the middle-aged population to younger age groups. By engaging with researchers in the fields of adult health and medicine the Raine Study has the potential to provide unprecedented data on the prevalence, clinical picture and risk factors for disease in early adulthood and beyond.

Don’t wait until you graduate to get real-world experience: Come hear from Guild Volunteering about how you can start acting locally to provide solutions to some of society’s greatest challenges. Learn, firstly, about the changing demands placed on graduates and the imperative for broad-minded social responsibility in the corporate world. Then, learn how you can start responding to these challenges now to ensure that when you graduate you can gain meaningful employment that makes a positive contribution to society.

Guild Volunteering provides a range of ways to engage with community for first-time volunteers or for students looking to cut their teeth on a high-commitment leadership opportunity

All students welcome!

Book on UWA CareerHub - http://uwa.careerhub.com.au

Linda Barwick from the University of Sydney will present a special guest lecture introducing the Western Arnhem Land Song Project Collection on 21 August at the Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery.

Linda Barwick will present work undertaken by her research team on the Western Arnhem Land Song Project (WALSP) which documents the diversity of language and music from over fifty repertories associated with thirty four different languages and dialects, including recordings by Ronald Berndt at Warruwi (South Goulburn Island) in the 1960s.

The repertories mostly belonging to the public dance-song genre named kun- borrk (Kunwinjku) or manyarti (Mawng), consist of discrete song texts inherited or received in dream by known composers. Many of the repertories include dialects that are no longer spoken—as well as untranslatable ‘spirit languages’ used extensively in songs throughout the project area. The team worked with singers and their families to transcribe, gloss and translate the song texts, providing a rich documentation of these highly valued cultural forms for future generations.

RSVP and MORE INFO This lecture is free to attend however, RSVP is essential to [email protected] or 08 6499 3707 by 20 August 2013. Visit the event website for more information: http://www.lwgallery.uwa.edu.au/publicprogram/linda-barwick/_nocache

LWAG PUBLIC PROGRAM This event is part of the Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery Public Program of events in conjunction with the Berndt Museum's current exhibition - Little Paintings, Big Stories: Gossip Songs of Western Arnhem Land

CAMPUS PARTNER The Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery is pleased to collaborate with the Graduate School of Education as the Campus Partner for this exhibition.

Come along to discover the range of courses available at UWA Albany. UWA career advisers will be on hand to offer advice on the best course for you point you in the right direction for an exciting and rewarding career. Displays, demonstrations, hands-on activities and campus tour will make this an event not to miss.

This workshop is aimed at UWA’s international students to assist them in developing strategies for marketing themselves successfully to Australian employers. Learn about the importance of self –marketing, utilising contacts, researching and networking skills effectively, as well as managing employer expectations.

Bookings essential on CareerHub - http://uwa.careerhub.com.au

In education, the role of assessment is ubiquitous and indispensable. However, even though it is intended to enhance performance, because it has the potential to corrupt learning, ‘teaching to the test' has a pejorative connotation. In academe, a relatively new phenomenon of being assessed by one index or another has similarly become ubiquitous and indispensable. By analogy to the corruption of learning by 'teaching to the test' to enhance performance, I will consider the potential for corruption of research by 'publishing to the index' to enhance performance. I will also outline some conditions that might resist such corruption.

In today’s competitive job market it is becoming more and more important for graduates to distinguish themselves not only through their academic achievements but through intangible qualities that demonstrate their potential as young professionals to progress into a leadership position. Learn about ways to identify and develop leadership skills and how to apply these in everyday situations.

About the guest speaker: Anne Bauer – once an international student herself - is Senior Manager of the Careers & Internships Team WA at Navitas Professional, a division which specialises in offering work readiness training for international students and graduates to help them kick-start their career in Australia. Originally from Germany, Anne started her career in Recruitment before moving into the education sector.

Bookings essential on CareerHub - http://uwa.careerhub.com.au

Join curators Kelly Rowe and Eve Chaloupka for an exhibition floor talk on Friday 30 August 1pm at the Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery.

The ‘gossip songs’ of Western Arnhem Land are key examples of complex combinations of moral instruction and entertainment and can act as social mediators.

In this talk, the curators of Little Paintings, Big Stories: Gossip Songs of Western Arnhem Land, Kelly Rowe and Eve Chaloupka, discuss the role of keeping collections and community connections alive through the powerful cultural material on display.

Public Program: This FREE event is part of the Berndt Museum public program accompanying the current exhibition (Little Painting, Big Stories) at the Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery. For similar events visit the website: http://www.lwgallery.uwa.edu.au/publicprogram

Campus Partner: The Campus Partner for this exhibition is the Graduate School of Education

The Blood Service mobile unit will be located at the UWA Crawley campus 2 - 5 September and has many appointments available. To make an appointment call 13 95 96 or visit donateblood.com.au Every blood donation can save three lives and only takes one hour of your time.

Focused visual attention is a mechanism by which relevant visual information is selectively prioritised for further processing. Given this vital role, focused attention is essential for the efficient visual perception of a world that is not only richly varied, but also continually changing. Great strides have been made in understanding the shifting of focused attention from one object or location to another, but relatively little is known about an independent and equally critical component of attentional control – attentional focusing.

The term attentional focusing refers to the fact that the focus of attention flexibly expands and contracts in spatial extent to encompass larger or smaller objects or regions of space. Despite the relative lack of research on focusing, it profoundly affects many aspects of visual perception and has substantial ramifications for cognition. In this seminar, I will present data on three inter-related aspects of attentional focusing: the spatiotemporal dynamics of focusing, object representations and their role in focusing, and the consequences of focusing on visual processing.