What's On at UWA

YOU can meet our UniHallers and join us for a free exclusive breakfast and a tour before heading over to UWA Open Day.

This is a great opportunity for you to discover what it’s like to live on campus at UWA. On the day you will meet our UniHall ambassadors who will take you on a tour (...)

UWA scientists are invited to meet with Dr Melanie Bagg from the Australian Science Media Centre (AusSMC). Melanie will share tips and advice on the best use of social media to communicate your research with the media and the communities you want to reach.

Melanie has a PhD in Medicine (...)

Deciding where and how to publish is an important step in the research process. This workshop will cover a range of factors to consider, and introduce the tools and guides that can help. Open access publishing and the UWA Research Repository are covered.

Across the month of September, the Centre for Education Futures will be hosting a range of workshops, presentations, webinars, panels and a half-day summit that will explore the use of mobile and in-context learning in Higher Education.

All mLearning Month events will be held at the (...)

Learn to make more effective use of Google, Google Scholar and Google Books to find scholarly information.

Join us for the mLEARNING SUMMIT, the main event for the mLearning Month (September 2016) hosted by the Centre for Education Futures.

The mLearning Summit will be featuring our own Professor Gilly Salmon addressing the role of mobile learning in blended education.

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Finishing the first draft of your manuscript is no mean feat. But what happens between completing your first draft and getting your manuscript assessed or sending it off to a literary agent or publisher? This fast-paced, interactive workshop with author John Harman will take you through how to edit (...)

Learn to make more effective use of Google and Google Scholar to find scholarly information.

This workshop is open to UWA graduate students and UWA researchers. There is a maximum of 30 places. The cost is $22 (incl. GST). Topics covered: data organization in spreadsheets and OpenRefine, data analysis and visualization in Python, and SQL for data management.

What is Open Access? An overview of OA plus an update on the latest global and local developments

Open Access publishing offers benefits to individual researchers and to the wider community, and key Australian funding agencies have mandates supporting it. If you have heard the term but (...)

Research indicates the provision of video feedback on student assessments results in an overwhelmingly positive impact on engagement, performance and overall perception of the unit and its coordinator. Join Learning Technologists Liberty Cramer and Michelle Bunting from the Centre for Education (...)

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This presentation is a sequel to Victoria's 2015 talk entitled The Celluloid Piano, in which she discussed the films in which the Australian concert pianist Eileen Joyce was involved. Her 2016 lecture offers a broader exploration of the use of the concerto in film, looking (...)

The UWA Library offers free introduction to EndNote workshops in the Barry J Marshall, Reid and EDFAA libraries. Register for a class through the EndNote Guide.

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In 1846 two Spanish monks, Dom Rosendo Salvado and Dom Joseph Serra, members of the Order of Saint Benedict, arrived in Western Australia with the intention of becoming missionaries. They were allocated an area now known as the Victoria Plains by Bishop Brady in Perth (...)

There’s so much to discover, experience and enjoy at UWA Open Day.

Get a taste of uni life as the campus comes alive with interactive activities, entertainment, tours, displays and more.

Visit the Future Students Hub, explore our campus and facilities on a tour, check out (...)

Visit UWA from 4 - 8 September for UWA Research Week when we showcase UWA research and its impact on local and global communities.

With over 50 diverse events on offer, it is a great opportunity for you to come and see the sorts of problems we are working on, the connections we have with (...)

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No one likes being taxed, but the first settlers of the Swan River Colony felt that taxation was doubly unfair. Not only had they moved to the other side of the globe to avoid such a heavy burden in the motherland, they weren’t yet making any money in their new ventures.< (...)

Learn how to: develop a search strategy; identify relevant, scholarly information resources; use tools and techniques to follow the published trail of research in your field, and more.

Learn how to develop a search strategy, identify relevant scholarly information resources and use tools and techniques to follow the academic conversation in your field.

About the talk

Gold was the lure for many Chinese coming to Australia. To many Australians the early Chinese came, found their fortune and returned home with full pockets. However this was not the case for the majority of early Chinese. When gold was found in the Swan River Colony (...)