What's On at UWA

Start the day fresh with an exclusive buffet-style breakfast at University Hall.

Take a tour with our ambassadors to hear their personal stories and to see the rooms and community lifestyle for yourself!

Family and friends are welcome to attend our free breakfast to coincide (...)

A public lecture by Kaisu Pitkala, Professor of General Practice and Primary Health Care at the University of Helsinki and 2015 IAS Short Stay Visiting Fellow.

This lecture will deal with issues related to older peoples well-being, how it has developed over the last decades and how it (...)

Ace your Video Interview will cover:

What is a video interview, at what stage of the recruitment process would you normally complete a video interview, what can you expect when conducting a video interview and how can you best prepare.

Students from all degree backgrounds are (...)

The Seminar: The diversity of human breast cancer subtypes has led to the hypothesis that breast cancer is a number of different diseases arising from cells at various stages of differentiation. We have derived clonal multipotent metastatic mammary cancer stem cells from the polyomavirus middle T (...)

Associate Professor Fang-Xu Jiang was trained as a medical doctor in China and is now Head of the Islet Cell Development Program, at the Harry Perkins Institute of Medical Research. He pioneered, during his PhD studies, male germ stem cell transplantation. For this contribution, he won The European (...)

The Lions Eye Institute will be hosting a Student Information Evening for prospective Honours and Postgraduate Students. Opportunities to speak to Laboratory scientists and current students, take a tour of the facilities and enjoy a cold drink and finger food. We hope to see you there.

The Seminar: This seminar links William Harvey's proofs with contemporary imaging techniques and new non-invasive technologies for in vivo assessment of macro and microvascular function and health in humans. New methods will be presented that hold the promise of directly visualising human arteries (...)

UWA Careers Centre provides job search skills workshops to help you find employment. These workshops will give you an advantage in your job search whether you are looking for a part-time, vacation or graduate position.

Resumes & Cover Letters; Online Applications; Interview Skills; (...)

Ruth Ganss heads the Vascular Biology and Stromal Targeting Laboratory and is Scientific Head of the Cancer and Cell Biology Division at the Harry Perkins Institute of Medical Research. Her team studies vascular remodeling in the context of tumour growth and cardiovascular pathologies. During the (...)

Learn how to structure your responses to the selection criteria to give your best shot at getting to the interview stage.

During this practical 75 minute workshop you will learn a framework to better structure your response to the selection criteria and communicate your suitability for (...)

Whatever your idea of impossible might be, visit UWA 7 - 11 September for Research Week and discover the possibilities when we showcase UWA Research and its contribution to local and global communities. With over 40 events, there is sure to be something that ignites your interest.

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Meet the leaders of science in Western Australia and advocate for your future. The Early- and Mid-Career Researcher Forum of the Australian Academy of Science invites you to an afternoon networking and learning about what the EMCR Forum does and how you can be a part of it.

RSVP to Carl (...)

A public lecture by Professor Peter Eastwood, Centre for Sleep Science, and Associate Professor Ajmal Mian, Machine Intelligence Group, UWA.

In this lecture Professor Eastwood will discuss the causes of sleep apnoea and its current treatments. He will then talk about the causes of sleep (...)

LinkedIn is the little black book of resourcing, this is where we go as Recruiters to find out a little bit more about you in the work world. LinkedIn helps us to create a storyline about you and your personal brand, in the olden days it used to be about having a great resume, now your resume is (...)

The Seminar: Some forms of smooth muscle show a property known as 'catch', where force production is maintained even though intracellular Ca2+ (the trigger for muscle contraction) drops back to very low levels. Skeletal muscle has also been reported to display a 'catch-like' enhanced contractile (...)

Find out which of our undergraduate mature-age entry pathways are most appropriate to you based on your individual study history, and learn more about what to expect from student life.

Our staff will also be on hand to answer any questions you have about studying at UWA.

Chris Higgins was a Junior Exhibitioner at the Royal College of Music, London, winning the Hugh Bean prize as a violinist, and then entered Durham University where he obtained a first class degree (1976) and PhD (1979) in botany.

He won a SERC Postdoctoral Fellowship to research in (...)

Semi-finals from 9.15 - 12.00. Finals from 3-5pm.

Come and learn about Intellectual Property and Commercialisation at UWA. Everything you need to know in 45 minutes or less!

The seminar will give an overview of:

. Intellectual Property - what it is and why it's important

. Patenting - what you need to get a patent < (...)

Professor Joseph Piven is currently Director of the federally-funded University Center of Excellence in Developmental Disabilities (UCEDD) at the University of North Carolina and NICHD-funded Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities Research Center, while leading an NIH-funded T32 Post-Doctoral (...)