What's On at UWA

Intended Audience: All staff engaged in teaching at any level of experience

Workshop Description: The value of peer review/observation/reflection as a powerful tool for the enhancement of teaching has long been recognised. Teaching is, by its very nature, an activity which is not (...)

Jeannie Rea commenced as the National President of the National Tertiary Education Union (NTEU) on 1 October 2010. She came to the position from being the Deputy Dean of the Faculty of Arts, Education and Human Development at Victoria University in Melbourne. Prior to this she was the Head of (...)

We invite you to listen and engage in a lunch time conversation with members of the UWA community on the topic of ‘What matters to me and why’.

At each session an invited guest will speak and then there will be an opportunity for questions and conversation. The speaker on this (...)

Tzvi Friedl presents a program including works by Brahms and more recent compositions for viola in this free lunchtime concert.

Peter Boag is a Lecturer in the Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Department at Monash University. He received his PhD in molecular parasitology from The University of Melbourne before undertaking postdoctoral research at Harvard Medical School, where he utilised the C. elegans model system to (...)

With UWA's transition to New Courses 2012, we have a golden opportunity to reconsider the content and structure of our units. Team-based learning (TBL) is a distinct alternative to lecture-based instruction in university classes. Class sessions revolve around the students solving challenging (...)

A concert of Baroque favourites by Bach, Handel, Vivaldi and others. You will hear some of the best loved works of classical music, which just happen to date from the era, played on period instruments in authentic Baroque style.

Ticket available from: http://uwa.interticket.com/search.php (...)

The Grit in the Oyster: Reflections on the Baroque in Music Symposium Chair: Emeritus Professor David Tunley

Speakers include: Margaret Sears, Jonathan Paget, Stewart Smith, Sandra Bowdler, Nicholas Bannan and Paul Wright

For further information and to register your interest (...)

Until recently, the predominant focus of research in relation to children and disasters has been on children’s vulnerability and reactions to disasters during the Response and Recovery phases. Research focused on children’s preparation for hazardous events has a much shorter history. This (...)

We sometimes forget that Handel was not the only great Baroque composer of his time. In this concert we will hear chamber cantatas composed by such forgotten luminaries as Giovanni Bononcini, Nicola Porpora and Adolf Hasse.

Tickets available from: http://uwa.interticket.com/search.php?la (...)

Dr Murray works as a cardiothoracic radiologist at Royal Perth and Princess Margaret hospitals and at Envision Medical Imaging. His current research interests include the utility ultra-low dose CT for children with cystic fibrosis (AREST-CF research group) and low dose CT for the secondary (...)

The Faculty of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences presents an International Research Seminar led by distinguished visiting scholar in digital humanities, Professor Harold Short (King’s College London).

What are the particular challenges faced by scholars engaged in collaborative (...)

Unfortunately this event has been cancelled.



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Co-ordinated by Associate Professor Victoria Rogers, School of Music, UWA these seminars are presented by the School’s honours-level students.

This is one of a series of six lectures on various aspects of religious studies and theology being offered jointly by the UWA Religion and Globalisation Initiative, Murdoch University (Theology) and the University of Notre Dame Australia (Philosophy and Theology). The lecture will be followed by (...)

Margaret undertook her PhD at the University of Melbourne with Prof Mark Hogarth performing biochemical and molecular studies of Fc receptors. Margaret did her post-doc at Harvard Medical School, Boston MA USA on a Jane Coffin Childs Research Fellowship with Prof Tim Springer working on (...)

The 2011 Gentilli Memorial Lecture will be given by by John McBride, Senior Principal Research Scientist, Bureau of Meteorology, Centre for Atmospheric Weather and Climate Research, Melbourne.

It is often stated that the effect of climate change will be felt through its impact on extreme (...)

Dr. Alan Lourens presents works on his 1934 Elkhart Conn Double Belled Euphonium.

Works by Jan Bach, Arthur Remington and others.

Interactions of a stratified fluid with topography take many forms. Inevitably, these interactions extract energy / momentum from the flow. While such effects are parameterized in atmospheric circulation models, present numerical models of the coastal ocean do not account for them. Towards (...)

The 2011 Disability Collective Lecture will be given by Senator Jan McLucas, Parliamentary Secretary for Disabilities and Carers.

This lecture is co-sponsored with the Institute of Advanced Studies and Equity and Diversity Unit at UWA and the Western Australian Disability Collective, a (...)

The UWA Music Students' Society presents an evening of contemporary works performed by UWA music students.