What's On at UWA

In this workshop, participants will first learn how to use Quickmark and Rubric tools within Turnitin. These tools can significantly reduce marking time while increasing the amount of feedback provided and improving consistency between markers.

In the second part of the workshop, participants will learn the principles of best practice for writing online feedback that students will actually use, and will apply these skills to writing Quickmark comments for their own unit. Lastly, we will provide suggestions on how participants can help their students access and understand their Turnitin feedback.

In this workshop, participants will first learn how to use Quickmark and Rubric tools within Turnitin. These tools can significantly reduce marking time while increasing the amount of feedback provided and improving consistency between markers.

In the second part of the workshop, participants will learn the principles of best practice for writing online feedback that students will actually use, and will apply these skills to writing Quickmark comments for their own unit. Lastly, we will provide suggestions on how participants can help their students access and understand their Turnitin feedback.

A free weekly seminar series, with presenters from within UWA and from the wider community.

This week we have presentations from 2 HDR candidates:

Shaun Fraser: The preparatory beat is the most important gesture a conductor can give - this single gesture conveys significant information including tempo, dynamics, style, and character, but does it effectively transfer to a readable cue?

Chris Milne: Transcriptions make up a significant proportion of the wind band repertoire, but there is little research on successful techniques in replicating a homogenous a cappella choral work in a heterogeneous wind band setting. This study aimed to identify some of the techniques utilised by three contemporary composers and their transcriptions of their own choral works for wind band.

Free entry - no bookings required

Dr. Nigel Westbrook trained in architecture in Melbourne, and later at the Architecture Association in London, where he was exposed to the rich architectural history of Europe. He had a career as a practising architect in London and Melbourne before crossing over to the University of Western Australia to take up a position in the Architecture school in 1993. He is now an Associate Professor, teaching and researching in architectural history and theory, and Associate Head (Research) at the School of Design. Overseas studio teaching (1994-1997) in Greece and Turkey led to an interest in the cultural exchanges between the Middle East and the West, and commencement of a PhD on the subject of the Classical survivals in the Byzantine Great Palace in Constantinople, now Istanbul, as the song goes. He is currently completing a book that grew out of the PhD, another co-edited book on Late Antique palaces, and a third, jointly written book on modern architecture and heritage in Iran, from the late 1960s to the late 1990s. All three books examine the subject of cultural exchanges. In the course of searching for documents that describe the transition from Byzantine to Ottoman culture in Istanbul, Nigel came across a mid-sixteenth century manuscript drawn by a Danish artist, Melchior Lorck, which depicts the city as it existed in 1559, a century after the Ottoman conquest. The book has proven to be a treasure trove of documentary evidence for long-disappeared monuments in the city.

In his talk, Nigel will discuss how the artist encountered the city, what his tools of the trade would have been, and what the manuscript, a panoramic view some 12 metres long, tells us about this fascinating and ancient city.

In the 1960s, Australia made a significant contribution to the first International Indian Ocean Expedition. Now, nearly six decades later, a second Expedition is underway, and in May 2019 a multi-institutional team of 30 oceanographers will head offshore from Fremantle with the Australian Research Vessel Investigator to study the oceanography of the SE Indian Ocean. On this month-long voyage we will to repeat the 110°E line from the 1960s, examine multi-decadal change in the physics, chemistry and biology of the water column, investigate microbes and biogeochemistry especially related to nitrogen and study the pelagic food web from plankton through to mesopelagic lantern fishes. The voyage will also enable ground truthing of bio-optical quantities like sea surface colour recorded by satellites as well as an acoustic survey of whales. For comparison, some of our work will use the original techniques employed during the first Expedition but these will be supplemented by a host of modern techniques and electronic technology that will assist us in better understanding the pelagic ecosystem at the western edge of Australia’s Exclusive Economic Zone.

The Brandenburg Quartet features the four principal string players of the celebrated Australian Brandenburg Orchestra. Join these artists as they work with talented UWA students, offering unique guidance on performance, interpretation and technique.

Free entry, no bookings required

Public service motivation refers to the motivation of individuals to contribute to society. Since its inception almost 30 years ago, a lot of research has been done. In fact, it has proven to be one of the most studied topics in public administration and management research. However, despite its popularity, some old issues – which were there from the beginning – have remained, while new issues have surfaced. In this seminar, I will review the research that has been done in the past and discuss some of the issues aforementioned (old ones and new ones). To address the issues, I will also present some research strategies that can aid in helping to move public service motivation and make research findings more solid.

Wouter Vandenabeele is an Associate Professor of HRM at the Utrecht University School of Governance (the Netherlands) and a visiting Full Professor at the Public Governance Institute of KULeuven University (Belgium). His research focuses on the behavior of public employees and those working for the public interest, in particular on the motivation of these individuals. Furthermore, he is interested in research on evidence-based management as a practical strategy for making public management more effective. He published in various peer-reviewed journals and his work is widely cited. He is also involved in various international networks as he is an executive board member, as well as co-chairing a permanent interest group on public service motivation of the International Research Society for Public Management and he is a co-chair of the permanent study group on public personnel policies of the European Group of Public Administration.

The new season of moved readings is upon us and we are delighted to present our offerings for the first semester of 2019.Overseen by Bríd Phillips (project director) and Steve Chinna (staging director and much else!) with educational input from Kathryn Prince, the Renaissance Moved Readings Project continues the tradition of informal, participatory, fast-paced and usually hilarious readings of Shakespeare’s plays.

This semester’s moved readings are Thursdays from 4-6 pm on the New Fortune Stage:

28 March, Much Ado About Nothing (a witty battle of the sexes is waged, comedy ensues)

11 April, King Lear (a king foolishly divides his kingdom among his daughters, tragedy ensues)

16 May, The Tempest (on an enchanted island, magical and muggle characters meet, romance ensues)

Participants and spectators of all ages are welcome: over-18s are invited to bring their own libations for festive imbibing afterwards in the Shakespeare Garden.

The Holocene was a time of substantial environmental and cultural change across Australia, due to the combined effects of post-glacial sea level rise and climatic shifts. However, not all observed environmental changes can be explained by climatic variation. Ethnographic and historical records indicate that at the time of European colonisation, Aboriginal people engaged in a range of targeted land management practices, many of which had a significant impact on plant and animal communities and can be viewed as a form of cultural niche construction. Fire was a widespread and widely documented form of land management employed by Aboriginal people, and its recorded use in southwestern Australia reflects similar practices observed across the continent. This paper presents the results of research into the zooarchaeological evidence for landscape-scale environmental change and its relationship with Aboriginal subsistence in the northern Swan Coastal Plain, southwester Australia. Archaeological and palaeontological assemblages from three cave sites are used to explore Holocene Aboriginal exploitation of mammals, and ecological change. Human activity in the caves and surrounding landscape appears to have been modest until the late Holocene, when greater rates of artefact discard are noted at some sites, possibly linked to decreased mobility and/or increased population density. Analysis of the faunal record demonstrates significant changes in mammal community composition through time, associated with multiple factors including climatic changes and human activity.The faunal records at all three sites indicate an increase in the abundance of the two highest-ranked prey taxa: Isoodon obesulus and Macropus fuliginosus, at about the same time as the increased human activity. Analysis of prey and non-prey species in the assemblages supports interpretations of the promotion of mosaic habitats, and suggests that ethnographically documented activities – including patch burning practices – were in place at least since the late Holocene and probably earlier.

Professor Wei will dissect the view that the US-China trade is unbalanced and unfair in China’s favor. In addition, to resolve the trade tensions for greater fairness and efficiency, Professor Wei contends that a reciprocal and balanced approach requires policy changes on both sides and reforms of the World Trade Organization (WTO) rules.

With the disappearance of cheap labor as its source of comparative advantage, China needs to move to an innovation based growth model, which is also a source of friction with the United States. Professor Wei assesses the likelihood of success for this transition and points to needed policy reforms.

Keynote | Professor Shang-Jin Wei

Professor Wei is a chaired professor of Chinese Business and Professor of Economy and Finance and Economics at Columbia University’s Graduate School of Business and School of International and Public Affairs. He was Chief Economist for Asian Development Bank and Director General of its Economic Research and Regional Cooperation Department during 2014-2016. Prior to his Columbia appointment in 2007, he was Assistant Director and the Chief of Trade and Investment Division at the International Monetary Fund. He previously held the positions of Assistant and Associate Professor of Public Policy at Harvard University.

The UWA Business School Economics department invites you to the annual Bateman Lecture by Professor Shang-Jin Wei, Columbia University.

Professor Wei will dissect the view that the US-China trade is unbalanced and unfair in China’s favor. In addition, to resolve the trade tensions for greater fairness and efficiency, Professor Wei contends that a reciprocal and balanced approach requires policy changes on both sides and reforms of the World Trade Organization (WTO) rules. With the disappearance of cheap labor as its source of comparative advantage, China needs to move to an innovation based growth model, which is also a source of friction with the United States. Professor Wei assesses the likelihood of success for this transition and points to needed policy reforms. Professor Wei is a chaired professor of Chinese Business and Professor of Economy and Finance and Economics at Columbia University's Graduate School of Business and School of International and Public Affairs. He was Chief Economist for Asian Development Bank and Director General of its Economic Research and Regional Cooperation Department during 2014-2016. Prior to his Columbia appointment in 2007, he was Assistant Director and the Chief of Trade and Investment Division at the International Monetary Fund. He previously held the positions of Assistant and Associate Professor of Public Policy at Harvard University.

A public lecture held in conjunction with the Holmes à Court Gallery.

Isabella Kirkland is a fine art painter specializing in Natural History. Fusing the style of the 17th Century Dutch Masters with the more classical naturalistic tradition, Kirkland’s art addresses the ecological challenges that we currently face. Her magnificently sumptuous and complex oil paintings serve as a meticulous visual record of the many life forms that are on the brink of annihilation or are already extinct. Kirkland’s art bears witness to loss and testifies to the existence of those animals and plants that in the near future will be relegated to the historical record of this world.

In this lecture Isabella Kirkland will discuss her paintings and the role that her art plays in drawing attention to the loss of life forms. Isabella will be introduced by Janet Holmes à Court, AC.

Following Isabella's presentation, Tim Allard, Chief Executive Officer of the Australian Wildlife Conservancy and Professor Stephen Hopper from the Centre of Excellence in Natural Resource Management at UWA will give a short talk on animal extinctions and declining biodiversity in Australia.

Isabella Kirkland has been listed by Time magazine as one of the 100 leading artists in the United States. Over the course of her career, Kirkland has depicted hundreds of species, many of which are now extinct, many are on the edge of extinction and some are newly discovered. Her art has featured in several prominent exhibitions and is held in numerous collections. She has had solo exhibitions at the Toledo Art Museum, Ohio, the National Academy of Sciences, Washington, DC, and the Sun Valley Centre for the Arts, Idaho, and her work has been included in group shows at the Field Museum, Chicago, the Tucson Museum of Art, de Pury & Luxembourg, Zurich, the Yerba Buena Centre for the Arts, San Francisco, and the Harvard Museum of Natural History. Since 2006, Kirkland has been a principal field researcher and illustrator for the California Academy of Sciences, San Francisco.

UWA and West Australian Opera proudly present a Distinguished Artist Lecture Series with Chris van Tuinen entitled 'Collaboration and competition, risk and reward. A discussion on devising and producing opera seasons' Join us as West Australian Opera’s Music Director, Chris van Tuinen, discusses the challenges and opportunities involved in devising opera seasons.

How does one curate a program that excites and inspires diverse audiences? Chris will address some of the key risks facing the operatic landscape, the importance of collaboration and the appetite for new work in this 400 year old artform.

Free entry, bookings essential | RSVP to [email protected]

Refreshments served from 6.30pm

The green school movement under various names (Eco Schools, Enviroschools, Green Schools, Sustainable Schools, ResourceSmart Schools etc) began as a response to needs identified at the 1992 United Nations (UN) Conference on Environment and Development, or even longer ago if the schools that participated in the OECD ENSI projects are included. The movement focuses on a whole school approach, which aspires to include everyone (students, teachers and the local community), to improve school environments (including resource usage and the school’s environmental footprint), to motivate students to seek resolutions of environmental problems, particularly at a local level, but also thinking globally, and to improve students' attitudes and behaviours as part of developing a sustainable mind set. This seminar will discuss work-in-progress findings from an international project which seeks to collect stories of the impact of the green schools movement in nineteen countries around the world (including six Asian nations) with a focus on the impact of the movement on the development and implementation of education for sustainable development in each country. In particular, each country’s story explains the history of the movement there, its current status, achievements, obstacles and broader impact.

The phenomenon of the maintenance of Aboriginal English despite significant counter-pressures in the wider society, shows an unwillingness, on the part of its speakers, to allow themselves to be linguistically identified with Australian English.

This presentation explores elements in the indigenization of English by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander speakers in Australia, relating to the way in which the speakers drew selectively on the varieties transported by the colonizers, and to the way in which they used English to embody essential cultural conceptualizations.

Apart from being an essential communication medium in an English dominant society, it is suggested that Aboriginal English serves at least three culturally significant functions for its speakers: authenticity, creative expression and cultural continuity. Malcolm, Ian G. (2017) “Terms of adoption: Cultural conceptual factors underlying the adoption of English for Aboriginal Communication.” In Farzad Sharifian (ed.) Advances in Cultural Linguistics. Singapore: Springer, pp. 625-659. Malcolm, Ian G. (2018) “The representation of Aboriginal cultural conceptualisations in an adopted English.” International Journal of Language and Culture 5 (1): 66-93. Rusho, Dima (2018) “Cultural conceptualisations of language and country in Australian Indigenous languages.” International Journal of Language and Culture 5 (1): 94-111.

Be transported from the everyday by our free lunchtime concert series, featuring the best musical talent from within the UWA Conservatorium of Music and around the country.

This week emerging artists from the UWA Woodwind Program perform works by Mozart, Krommer, Spohr, Weber, Rossini and Schumann. These young artists have received coaching from Institute of Advance Studies Visiting Fellow and proud UWA Graduate Nicola Boud, who returns to UWA for a residency with the Irwin Street Collective.

Free entry, no bookings required.

As part of Choralfest 2019, The Winthrop Singers and Piñata Percussion lead a Palm Procession, followed by a Mass at St Patrick's Basilica, including a new setting of St Luke's Gospel by Nicholas Bannan.

Further information from choralfest.org.au

This four hour workshop is a great practical opportunity for Faculty of Engineering and Mathematical Sciences Unit Coordinators to experience redesigning your existing unit using best practices in learning and teaching.

As the Unit Coordinator, you will participate in a three-step collaborative process assisted by an EEU Learning Designer. This active learning workshop will allow you to explore ideas to constructively align learning outcomes to compliant assessments and develop learning activities for the face-to-face and online learning environments.

The workshop starts at 10:00am and finishes at 2:00pm. There is an expectation that participants will be present for the full four hours. Please answer as many of the questions at the point of registration. This extremely valuable information will be used to coordinate the best team to assist you at this workshop and during follow-up opportunities.

A free weekly seminar series, with presenters from within UWA and from the wider community.

This week we welcome UWA Graduate and celebrated period clarinettist Nicola Boud to present 'An Introduction to Historical Clarinets'

Despite being a relative latecomer to the woodwind family, the clarinet has it’s own fascinating story to tell. Its mechanical evolution greatly varied throughout Europe since the 18th century, with each step of its development, together with distinctive variation in stylistic language differing from one country to the next. These historical elements shed light on performance considerations that we face today

Born in Perth, Nicola obtained her Bachelor of Music with first class honours from the University of Western Australia in 1999, and was awarded the Edith Cowan Prize for performance and musicology. During her studies Nicola began to play with the Australian Chamber Orchestra on modern and historical clarinet. Her curiosity in early music took her to the Netherlands, where she completed her Masters in historical performance at the Royal Conservatory in the Hague with Eric Hoeprich in 2004.

Now based in Europe, Nicola tours and records extensively, and is in demand as principal clarinet with various orchestras and ensembles. Nicola is also an active chamber musician, regularly performing with the pianist Kristian Bezuidenhout, and the Cambini and Edding Quartets, and has performed at many prestigious festivals. Nicola returns to UWA for this week-long residency as an Institute of Advanced Studies Misha Strassberg Fellow.

Free entry - no bookings required

A public lecture by Dr Gilad Rosner, founder, Internet of Things Privacy Forum and Institute of Advanced Studies Visiting Fellow.

How many cameras do you have in your home? How many microphones? The Internet of Things, smart homes and connected devices are becoming commonplace concepts, but what do these technologies mean for intimacy? The home, classically cherished as a private space, is becoming more transparent to a myriad of commercial interests. Do you have to have ‘something to hide’ merely if you want to avoid the penetrating gaze of your Things? Or, is it still appropriate to imagine people are making ‘trade-offs’ when they exchange some of their privacy for services, even if they paid outright for a device and it’s installed in the home for long periods of time?

In this talk, Dr Gilad Rosner will explore the technologies, business relationships, regulations and social concepts implied by bringing listening and watching devices into the home. He will discuss the overlapping ideas of privacy, data protection, boundary management and consent, examining both the emerging challenges to intimacy and some of the more promising frameworks to address them.