What's On at UWA

If you’re not used to it, speaking in front of a group can be a challenging task! This workshop is designed to give you practical advice on effective communication including how to use your voice, what to do with your hands and how to appear calm and in control (even if it might not feel that way) (...)

Achieve a simpler, smoother writing style through the effective use of paraphrase.

This workshop offers students a collection of tools which will help them to calculate limits. Students will see that most limits can be calculated mentally, and will see how to develop their thought process before writing down their workings. Many different examples will be given, including some of (...)

This workshop aims to demonstrate that most of the functions we deal with are transformations of simpler functions. Furthermore, there are certain ways of reading functions which allow us to graph and understand more complicated functions.

As an Honours student, you may be required to communicate your research through an oral presentation at a conference or seminar. This workshop will identify characteristics of successful conference presentations and will get you thinking about how you can clearly convey your research to a wider (...)

Presenting involves lots of thought about your material and your audience. This workshop will show you how to develop (and practice) presentations that are well structured, clearly thought-out and delivered with ease.

These workshops are for postgrads writing a dissertation as part of a coursework degree. Each workshop provides a brief session on a different aspect of writing and an opportunity to get individual help.

If you sometimes make notes of what you have read, and then wonder afterwards what you wrote down (and why) and how all those words are connected, you are not alone! This workshop will help you read with a purpose, ‘scan’ for information you need and remember material for longer. It will also (...)

Write like a student and you will sound like a student; write like a pro and you will sound like a pro. Convince others that you're an expert by establishing a clear, critical voice in which you set your ideas in the context of those of other experts in your field.

Event Management Training aims to provide current and prosective Event Managers smf event staff with: increased knowledge of the processes for planning and managing an event that will involve alcohol on unlicensed Univeristy premises or at an external venue; increased knowledge about planning a (...)

This workshop addresses the notion of a subspace in a clear and intuitive manner. Students will develop an intuition for subspaces which will allow them to produce simple proofs and counter examples for test style questions. They will also see how a theorem from the lectures can make this really (...)

As an Honours student, you may be required to communicate your research through an oral presentation at a conference or seminar. This workshop will identify characteristics of successful conference presentations and will get you thinking about how you can clearly convey your research to a wider (...)

If you sometimes make notes of what you have read, and then wonder afterwards what you wrote down (and why) and how all those words are connected, you are not alone! This workshop will help you read with a purpose, ‘scan’ for information you need and remember material for longer. It will also (...)

Presenting involves lots of thought about your material and your audience. This workshop will show you how to develop (and practice) presentations that are well structured, clearly thought-out and delivered with ease.

Write like a student and you will sound like a student; write like a pro and you will sound like a pro. Convince others that you're an expert by establishing a clear, critical voice in which you set your ideas in the context of those of other experts in your field.

This workshop addresses the notion of a subspace in a clear and intuitive manner. Students will develop an intuition for subspaces which will allow them to produce simple proofs and counter examples for test style questions. They will also see how a theorem from the lectures can make this really (...)

The space and dryness, the stars and the endless horizon, the white history and the Aboriginal history - all these are your companions on this wilderness retreat. The chaplains will be tehre to assist your exposure to Australian arid wilderness and around the campfire provide slow thinking and (...)

In a thesis, effective writing is vital and is often the deal-breaker. Although you may already be an experienced writer of essays and reports, the length and complexity of a thesis will require new writing strategies. This workshop will provide strategies to equip you to write a good thesis and to (...)

This session offers strategies to help you organise your ideas so that your presentations have a logical flow.

This workshop aims to help students correct the algebraic mistakes in their working out. Importance is placed on developing mathematical independence by understanding expressions rather than remembering rules.