What's On at UWA

In the late 1960s the WA Government was advised that there was no evidence that agricultural developments in the southwest induced increasing soil and stream salinity. To produce such evidence, the Australian Water Resources Council provided basic funding for instrumentation of 5 small catchments (...)

Sven Hennig was born in Coesfeld, Germany in 1979. He studied Biochemistry 65 km further south at the Ruhr-University of Bochum until 2004. During his PhD 18 km further to the West at the Max-Planck Institute for molecular Physiology Sven was looking for X-ray structures of proteins playing a role (...)

Developing students’ communication skills – and particularly their ability to write and present coherently – is a university priority. This workshop will offer practical suggestions for embedding the development of communication skills across the curriculum in all disciplines. The focus of (...)

Chris Hill developed an interest in contemporary art in the seventies, and has been collecting ever since. He became aware of Brian’s work in the early eighties, through exhibitions such as Critics’ Choice and Among the Souvenirs at the Art Gallery of Western Australia, and solo shows at (...)

This three-day course will examine the potential for the use of wastes for alternative energy generation by thermal methods. The practice is widespread in Europe, especially with forest wastes in Scandinavia. However, there are significant amounts of agricultural, sewerage and municipal wastes (...)

As part of the Faculty of Natural and Agricultural Science Department's outreach program, a group of students from Seaton College will have the opportunity to participate in a practical exercise in a university laboratory. The activity to be undertaken is the Polymerase Chain Reaction Analysis of (...)

The Department of Water has an extensive Statewide network of monitoring bores and gauging stations that has records going back to the early 1900’s. The types of projects that DOW’s water information was used in 2009 was wide ranging including: major urban land development projects, large (...)

This workshop aims to assist participants to:

Develop a clear understanding of the roles and responsibilities of a supervisor, and what they can expect of international students;

Develop productive working relationships with international students, to identify the key (...)

These workshops aim to assist participants to:

Develop a clear understanding of the roles and responsibilities of a supervisor;

Develop productive working relationships with international students, to identify the key qualities of good supervisors and good supervision, and to (...)

Intended Audience: The workshop is aimed at those who already have a basic working knowledge of PowerPoint, but would like to learn to present more interesting and effective presentations.

The Seminar: The dental health of Australians is dramatically split between the haves and the have nots. This is most acutely felt in rural and remote Australia and in Aboriginal communities. Marc will talk about the decade or more research, educational initiative and service systems development (...)

Dr. Andrew W. Minto has recently relocated to Perth from Chicago, Illinois, USA. In Chicago, he was an Assistant Research Professor in the Department of Medicine at the University of Chicago. His research focused on the development of novel mouse models of kidney disease, vitamin D responses in (...)

Dissolved organic matter (DOM), observed as tannin or tea coloration in surface waters, is ubiquitous in rivers and estuaries of South-western Australia. Local concentrations of DOM, including carbon (DOC) and nitrogen (DON), are especially high compared to global averages, yet their role in river (...)

Intended Audience: The workshop is aimed at those who already have a basic working knowledge of PowerPoint, but would like to learn to present more interesting and effective presentations.

The talk develops the view that the involvement of mirror neurons in embodied experience grounds brain structures that underlie language. However, it stresses that activity in human "mirror systems" involves activity of many neurons in addition to mirror neurons, and that the activity (...)

The Seminar: Sleep disorders are a large and under-recognized problem. Estimates are that more than 6% of the Australian population has a chronic sleep disorder, with a total annual cost of $10 billion1. Sleep disorders contribute to a range of other health and social problems including work-rela (...)

Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is the most common form of age-related dementia which is characterised by progressive neurodegeneration leading to dementia. The key neuropathological features of AD are intracellular amyloid deposits (neurofibrillary tangles) and extracellular amyloid deposits (senile (...)

This paper considers the example of men accused of witchcraft to examine the issue of negative early modern English masculinities. It outlines a series of gendered notions which could be applied to men and their behaviour, and suggests some of the cultural work such negative masculine (...)

In 1794 the Welsh-speaking artist Edward Pugh (1763-1813), the son of a country barber, published in London a series of six engravings of the area around his home town Ruthin in Denbighshire. By focussing on one, the image of a tract of common land on the Flintshire-Denbighshire border, this (...)

Ranging from economic history to literary and artistic representation, this multi-disciplinary conference examines the topic of poverty and the poor from the early medieval period to 1800.