What's On at UWA

Intended Audience: UWA staff new to using UWA's Learning Management System (WebCT) or those who would like a refresher.

Workshop Description: Have you ever wanted to:

Communicate important study related events to your students? Provide a unit outline and learning materials in (...)

Intended Audience: UWA staff new to using UWA's Lecture Recording System (Lectopia) or those who would like a refresher.

Workshop Description: Have you ever wanted to:

Know what Lectopia is and how to use it? Complete a Lectopia Booking form to ensure that your lectures are (...)

Final Registration Reminder

The Association for the Study of Australian Literature (ASAL) and the Westerly Centre are to honour the work of Winthrop Professor Dennis Haskell with a symposium entitled 'Creative Writing and its Contexts'.

The Symposium will be opened at 5 pm on (...)

2011 UWA Gledden Visiting Senior Fellow, Alexander M. Puzrin, of the Institute for Geotechnical Engineering, ETH Zurich will present a lecture on the famous Leaning Tower of St Moritz. St. Moritz, Switzerland is a famous ski resort built on an active creeping landslide and the tower is the most (...)

Recent advances in computer animation and cognitive neuroimaging have created powerful tools to study human social interaction. This talk will concentrate on what we are now learning about the specialized brain networks that underlie ‘first impressions’ based on facial appearance, speech and (...)

Intended Audience: The Introduction to University Teaching programme is part of a comprehensive set of professional development programmes offered by the Centre for the Advancement of Teaching and Learning (CATL). The programme is specifically designed for postgraduate students who are teaching at (...)

There are four talks this week, reporting on applications of differential geometry to nonlinear problems in dynamics, interpolation, and problems of interpolating rigid body motion. Following each talk there will be a short discussion on topics of general interest. The speakers are (note that (...)

In referring to the history of ideas,"the Begriffsgeschichte“ and literary studies the paper examines the parallels between the pre-1800 urban historiography and the literary genre of early modern utopia as introduced and developed by Thomas More, Francis Bacon, Johann Valentin Andreae and/or (...)

Intended Audience: New UWA teaching staff.

Orientation Description: The Teaching and Learning Orientation aims to provide new teaching staff with an overview of teaching and learning policy and practice at UWA as well as information on campus-wide services that support teaching and (...)

Businesses operating in WA’s creative industries will be able to discuss their challenges in a free 1hour session with a senior creative industries adviser. The CIIC Biztro is an initiative of the Creative Industries Innovation Centre (CIIC), and will be available for the first time in Perth (...)

It has been increasingly difficult to engage first year students, especially (but not only) in service units. Most first year service units are difficult to teach as students are not interested and cannot see the relevance to their chosen major field of study. This is especially true of (...)

Western Mining Services (WMS) and the Centre for Exploration Targeting (CET) have combined to offer a senior-level exploration management course on February 28 – March 3, 2011 on the campus of The University of Western Australia in Perth. The Director of the CET, Professor McCuaig, was so (...)

The University of Western Australia is proud to announce the Year of Mathematics 2011, a celebration of mathematics and the powerful role that it plays in our everyday lives.

Central to the program of events is the MathWest Workshop, where over two days, members of the International (...)

The Seminar - Endothelial cells differentiate in the embryo from mesodermal cell population. Additional signals from the microenvironment are necessary to mature the endotheium into the local differentiation status, i.e. the formation of the blood-braiun barrier, sinus formation in the spleen or (...)

Intended Audience: Staff interested in applying for the Teaching Fellowship Scheme.

Programme Description: The Teaching Fellowship Scheme was introduced in 2005 and currently offers four fellowships valued at $22,000 each year. The scheme supports innovative, reasonably short-term (...)

Workshop Description: Done well, teaching with technology has the potential to enhance learning. Using technology appropriately in teaching means recognising the widespread use of technologies in society, and enabling our learners to become more widely proficient with technologies. These can be (...)

Lung diseases affect one in five people worldwide. They carry a high mortality and have a devastating effect on a normally active lifestyle. Australians, like most people in developed countries, are experiencing an increased incidence of many lung diseases including asthma and smoking related (...)

Intended Audience: Tutors, including postgraduate students, teaching in any subject area.

Note: Business students should contact Professor Phil Hancock for subject-specific workshops.

Workshop Description: In this workshop, you will examine a range of strategies for (...)

(Time changed - now at 12noon) Leslie Zebrowitz is a social psychologist whose research concerns how and why people's physical qualities, such as facial appearance, influence impressions of their traits as well as the impact of such impressions on people’s social outcomes and psychological (...)

The climate is changing. The interesting and important challenges this poses are not about temperature and rainfall, but rather are about fundamental psychological and social issues. From denial to mitigation behaviours, the discipline of psychology has a fundamental role to play in understanding (...)