What's On at UWA

A lunch time information session/conversation about UWA Quiet Days and Retreats will be held at the UWA Club Cafe on Friday 8th July at 12pm. Please RSVP to Michael Wood by email or phone 0435 065326.

Set on a lovely bush block in Mundaring, the next UWA Quiet Day on Wednesday 20th July (...)

We are seeking volunteers for a study investigating ways to improve the health and well being of dog owners and their dogs. If you own a dog, but do not walk it very often we would like you to hear from you.

Participation in this study will involve attending a 1-2 hour discussion with (...)

Despite an ever-changing society it is through the living language of art that Indigenous Australians continue to express the meaning of culture and heritage. In an ongoing struggle to educate the wider community to the importance of connections to ‘country’ and dispel the misconceptions of a (...)

The history of Modern Europe presents a multitude of disturbing contradictions. The Old Continent has engendered the most uplifting visions of human potential and the darkest dystopias in human experience. It has laboured to produce its colossal social, cultural and artistic heritage and has (...)

The course is designed for people with little or no knowledge of statistics. It will be spread over three days covering material ranging from means and standard deviations to simple linear regression, and basic ANOVA. All course information, including costs and enrolment are available on our (...)

Intended Audience: Those who are engaged in postgraduate supervision and who want to reflect upon, develop and refine their current conceptions and practice of supervision. This workshop not only provides grounding in the Graduate Research School's guidelines, policies and procedures for the (...)

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: The Foundations of University Teaching and Learning programme is offered every semester to support staff relatively new to the University as well as staff with teaching experience who wish to refine, test out, validate or develop their present conceptions of good teaching and (...)

Dieter Wildenauer worked for his thesis at the Max-Planck-Institute for Biochemistry, Munich, receiving the PhD degree from the University of Munich. After that he worked as postdoctoral fellow with Gobind Khorana at MIT Cambridge, MA, USA for two years. In 1985 he became interested in Psychiatric (...)

The argument of this workshop can be simply stated: all undergraduate students in all higher education institutions should experience learning through and about research. My interest in developing students as researchers originated through explorations over the last few years into ways to enhance (...)

Participants must bring their own laptops.

Bayesian approaches to statistical modelling and analysis are being enthusiastically adopted in many disciplines. The course is structured as two mini-workshops each of two days: Introductory Bayesian analysis using WinBugs and Bayesian analysis (...)

Magnetic thin films with their magnetic moments spontaneously aligned perpendicular to the film plane are of great interest for their practical applications. This configuration is applied in perpendicular recording media with increased data storage density. New materials with a larger tendency to (...)

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 (...)

Nicola was awarded a joint NHMRC/NHF C.J. Martin Overseas Research Fellowship in 2007 to train in the laboratory of Professor Graeme Milligan, a world expert on G protein-coupled receptors. She is 7TM-centric, with a career focussed on the dissection of receptor signalling through mutagenesis and (...)

A free public lecture by by Professor Carlos Duarte, Director of UWA's Oceans Institute.

Professor Carlos Duarte was appointed Director of UWA’s Oceans Institute in March 2011. He is currently leading the Malaspina 2010 Expedition, a Spanish circumnavigation expedition that is sailing (...)

The 10 most engaging 3 Minute Thesis presenters selected at the UWA semi-finals on 21st July, will compete for prizes and the opportunity to represent UWA at the Australia-New Zealand 3MT competition in September. Please come along to support the presenters and vote for your "People's Choice&qu (...)

Artists operate within both the miniscule contexts of cells and molecules and the vastly larger macrocosm of human experience. While scientists ponder higher dimensions and the existence of multiple universes, the scope of knowledge encompasses once inconceivable reaches of space and time. Art is (...)

Presentations over this two-day event will cover comparisons of environments for the dawn of life on Earth and comparing with the possibility of life on the red Planet, Mars.

Written submissions from teachers, scientists, engineers, social theorists, managers, writers and artists are (...)

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 (...)

After 25 years of research Prof Commbe has an international reputation on the structure and function of a class of carbohydrates: GlycosAminoGlycans (GAGs). The biological activities of GAGs indicated that they may have important roles in a number of diseases and in recent years Prof Coombe’s (...)