What's On at UWA

The Perth Undergraduate Choral Society (PUCS) is proud to present our upcoming concert, "A Christmas Cracker", at 1pm on Sunday 4th December at Wesley Church, Perth. We will be performing a series of well loved pieces from our repertoire and Christmas Carols. Conducted by Jonathan Paxman, with Mia Brine and Alessandro Pittorino.

Tickets are available via our website (pucs.org.au) - $15 Standard, $10 concession and $40 Family (two adult/two children) or at the door.

Come along to the School of Population Health Postgraduate Course information sessions. We'll present information about the degrees below and will have course experts on hand to answer all your questions.

- Master of Health Professional Education (4.30pm) - Empower yourself as an educator in the health professions by developing and enhancing your teaching and research skills.

- Master of Public Health (5.30pm) - Gain a leadership role and an understanding of public health and the latest research methods.

- Master of Nursing Science (5.30pm) - build on your undergraduate degree in any field and become eligible to qualify as a Registered Nurse.

- Master of Social Work (5.30pm) - build on your undergraduate degree in a relevant discipline and become an accredited Social Worker.

- Master of Nursing Research (5.30pm) - A degree for Registered Nurses to gain a solid grounding in clinical research methods and develop skills to design, conduct and lead clinical research.

- Master of Public Health (by Research) and PhD (5.30pm) - World-class research training is available with top researchers in a wide range of health-related fields. Conduct research on a topic you're passionate about.

Over the last 50 years ethical issues associated with medical research have focussed on how individuals are informed and give consent for participation in experimental studies. They have also focussed on how the participant's privacy is protected. Parellel efforts to address privacy and consent have been made in clinical medicine. In this talk Professor Joyner raises questions about the challenges posed by the emerging electronic environment to traditional ideas about privacy, consent and more importantly the individual. Is the question "who owns your data?" really a question of "who owns you?"

The Centre for Social Impact (UWA) National Conference 2011 will shape opinion and understanding, and share best practice and research on the role of Indigenous business and Indigenous corporations in expanding economic opportunities for Indigenous people and creating positive social and economic impact for Indigenous communities.

In recent years there has been a significant growth in Indigenous business in Australia, providing new opportunities for employment, income and wealth generation. Indigenous business activity represents one of the most promising strategies available to address the chronic gap between the economic, social and health outcomes of Indigenous Australians and those of non-Indigenous Australians.

Keynote speakers include Wayne Bergmann - CEO, Kimberley Regional Economic Development Corporation; Natalie Walker - CEO, Australian Indigenous Minority Supplier Council and Ian Trust, Executive Chairman, Wunan Foundation and Director, Indigenous Business Australia.

Other speakers include Simon Hawkiins – CEO Yamatji Marpla Aborginal Corporation; Shane Hamilton – WA State Manager, Community Housing Limited; Kimberley Kohan – Principal Advisor, Aboriginal Business Development Rio Tinto; Brenda Love – Director of Strategic Partnership, Dept of Education, Employment and Workplace Relations and case studies from many Indigenous enterprises.

PROGRAM THEMES

• Balancing cultural values, employment markets and sustainable social impact

• Creative engagement: pathways and partnerships in the resource economy

• Indigenous business leaders in action

• Leveraging Native Title Agreements for Indigenous economic and social growth

• The delicate art of procurement: enabling Indigenous entrepreneurs to create a vibrant and engaging Indigenous enterprise sector

• Social enterprises in remote Australia

• Growing sustainable Aboriginal Community Housing Corporations

• Microfinance: Small loans for big impact

• The business of Indigenous art and tourism

• The role of education to support Indigenous enterprise growth

• Closing the economic gap: exploring the role of Indigenous business and self- employment

REGISTRATION: $990 (inc. GST) standard; $660 (inc. GST) not-for-profit organisations, Indigenous businesses and corporations. Group Discounts available. Limited number of sponsored delegate rates available. Please contact Fiona allan (08 6488 8561) for further information.

RSVP/ registration required - www.business.uwa.edu.au/research/conferences/forum

Registration includes full program (8.15am-5.30pm) & post-conference event (5.30-7.30pm).

Participation in this all-day Masterclass is invited from postgraduate and early career researchers in fields related to medievalism and youth culture, such as children’s and young adult literature, fantasy literature, graphic arts, computer gaming, role-playing games, fandom, creative and re-enactment community groups, theatre, television and cinema.

The Masterclass will be led by Professor Clare Bradford (Deakin University), with further contributions from Professor Stephen Knight (Cardiff), and Dr Chantal Bourgault du Coudray (UWA).

How to apply:

Applications to attend should be sent directly to Professor Andrew Lynch (UWA) ([email protected]),

and should include:

(i) details of the degree in which you are enrolled (PGs) or the title of your current research project (ECRs).

(ii) a c.500-word statement outlining your relevant research interests, explaining how the proposed project corresponds with the aims of this Masterclass, and outlining how the event will benefit your research.

(iii) (where the applicant is seeking a bursary of up to $750 to attend the Symposium and Masterclass) a short separate budget statement.

Applications should be sent by Friday 14 October. Notification of acceptance will be by Friday 21 October.

For Year 12 students and their parents looking for more information about UWA's New Courses 2012, guidance on possible career directions and how to structure TISC preferences to help you achieve your goals.

CHERUBIM AND SERAPHIM

Combining the Angelic Voices of William Huxtable, treble, Sara Macliver, soprano, with Stewart Smith, keyboard

In a program of familiar and exotic Festive Delights

Date: 7th December 6-8pm Venue: University Club Auditorium Tickets: $70 members/$80 non-members

Purchase your tickets from UWA Club before 23 November and you will go into a draw for a fabulous Baroque opera DVD and a free double pass to our next concert

For Bookings, contact UWA Club Reception on 6488 8770 or visit

Building a future for Groundwater in Western Australia: Celebrating the Western Australian node of the NCGRT

The National Centre for Groundwater Research and Training (NCGRT) is a co-funded Centre of Excellence of the Australian Research Council and the National Water Commission. This event will mark and celebrate the growth of the NCGRT Western Australian node, profile the role of the NCGRT, showcase its achievements and current research. There will be presentations by the NCGRT Director, Professor Craig Simmons, key NCGRT researchers and our WA partners.

Professionals within the water industry who are keen to learn more about the NCGRT and gain an insight into the research currently being undertaken in groundwater are encouraged to attend.

Visit www.groundwater.com.au for details and to register.

We warmly invite members of the UWA Community and the general public to the following Christmas celebrations in the chapel of St. George's College:

Thursday 15th December 2011 7pm Service of readings and carols (with UWA Winthrop Singers)

Friday 16th December 2011 7pm Service of readings and carols (with UWA Winthrop Singers)

Saturday 24th December 2011 9pm Christmas Eve Eucharist

A collection (donation) will be taken at the end of each service

St. George's College is located on the corner of Hackett Drv and Stirling Hwy, Crawley. Enter through the archway and you will see the chapel straight ahead of you.

Street parking is available on the road behind the college and in the cark park on the corner of Hackett Dve and Stirling Hwy. Parking on college grounds is reserved for guests

Enquiries: Phone 9449 5555

For Year 12 students and their parents looking for more information about UWA's New Courses 2012, guidance on possible career directions and how to structure TISC preferences to help you achieve your goals.

World records in athletic events can serve as physiological experiments in nature. By considering how the marathon record has changed over time it is possible to integrate ideas about oxygen consumption, running economy, and the "lactate threshold" and tell a coherent story about the limits of human endurance performance. Importantly, this physiological narrative raises questions for future physiology studies and also highlights important sociological issues for those interested in exercise science.

A UWA engineering qualification combines practical and theoretical learning in an exciting and engaging environment that will make you a sought-after graduate, with an internationally recognised education.

To find out more about how to become an engineer, come along to one of our free Engineering Information Evenings and talk to us about commencing your engineering career at UWA.

The information evenings will cover course and career options, the types of engineering available to study, what the course entails, entry pathways available and how to apply through TISC.

In this presentation Antonio Traverso will discuss strategies of working through trauma deployed in political memory documentary cinema produced in Chile since 1990, the year that symbolises the end of General Pinochet’s dictatorship. Traverso will give this discussion a focus by means of an analysis of documentaries in which Chilean survivors/witnesses return to the traumatic memories and attempt to confront the perpetrators. The presentation’s title and material are derived from his in-progress monograph.

Antonio Traverso is senior lecturer in Screen Studies at Curtin University. In Australia since 1987, he was originally born in Chile. Traverso has published essays on political cinema and written and directed short experimental videos. In 2008 he was co-convenor of the Interrogating Trauma: Arts & Media Responses to Collective Suffering international conference, Perth. He is co-editor of Interrogating Trauma: Collective Suffering in Global Arts and Media (Routledge, 2011); Living Through Terror: (Post)Conflict, (Post)Trauma and the South (Routledge, 2011); and Trauma, Media, Art: New Perspectives (Cambridge Scholars Press, 2010).

Meet the Friends of the Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery and join them in their Christmas celebration on the gallery verandah. Chat about the activities of the past year and plan the exciting events for the year to come. Tickets are $35 for members, $40 for non-members, RSVP essential. All enquiries about the Friends' Christmas event and Friends' membership to be directed through the Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery on 6488 3707.

CANCELLED: For Year 12 students and their parents looking for more information about UWA's New Courses 2012, guidance on possible career directions and how to structure TISC preferences to help you achieve your goals.

This event is cancelled. Please register for the Thursday, 15 December 2011 seminar instead. We apologise for the inconvenience.

The Women in Science and Engineering Day (WISE) is a free event designed to inspire, inform and attract girls to consider careers in the fields of science, engineering, computing and mathematics.

WISE is a great opportunity for female students to immerse themselves in the world of modern science and engineering and discover what exciting opportunities exist.

This event is aimed at high school female students in year 10 and year 11. Places are strictly limited.

For Year 12 students and their parents looking for more information about UWA's New Courses 2012, guidance on possible career directions and how to structure TISC preferences to help you achieve your goals.

Enjoy chorus highlights and selected Messiah choruses performed in Winthrop Hall on Sunday 18 December at 6.30pm. Tickets are available through BOCS outlets or BOCS website. Cost $40 or $37 concession. This concert will be a celebration of UWACS continuously performing for 80 years. Katja Webb and Robert Hofmann will be the soloists.

The Science Experience is a three-day program of events aimed at high school students about to enter Year 10 and year 11, and will be held at UWA from the 17th to the 19th of January 2012.

It aims to showcase the courses and facilities available to future students, and the multitude of career options open to them after graduation. It also gives participants a unique UWA experience and provides them with the opportunity to experience first hand what university life is like.

It’s about having lots of fun with science, engaging in some fascinating hands-on activities and meeting scientists who love their work.

***Registrations for January 2012 close on 9th December 2011, visit www.scienceexperience.com.au to apply.***

The Graduate School of Education at UWA is hosting the Fifth International conference on probabilistic models for Measurement in Education, Psychology, Social Science and Health from 23 to 25 January 2012. The emphasis of the conference is on the Rasch model, named after the Danish mathematician George Rasch. The Rasch model is widely used for data analysis in Education, for example the analysis of national and international proficiency assessments like PISA and NAPLAN. It is also used for analysis of data from questionnaires, for example Quality of Life questionnaires in Health. In marketing the Rasch model is used to analyse data from satisfaction surveys. UWA will also be running an introductory and advanced course in Rasch measurement in the immediate two weeks prior to the conference. For more information on either the conference or courses please see: http://www.education.uwa.edu.au/raschconference