What's On at UWA

UWA's learning management system provides a variety of tools, features and interactions in an online environment for supporting teaching and learning experiences at UWA. Different roles have different access and capabilities for using the system, and there are two tutor roles - a grading role and a (...)

The impact of financial and macroeconomic factors on individual risk attitude are explored using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) over the period 2004 to 2009. The three survey questions whose responses are analysed are: willingness to take risk generally; willingness to take risk (...)

This paper explores the knowledge-based development of Kobe, Kansai, from its top-down governance after WWII to ideological shifts which provided greater regional scope for location-specific strategies and decision-making. After the destruction of the 1996 Hanshin earthquake, Kobe trialed new (...)

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A graph is called X-semisymmetric if the group X acts transitively on edges, but not on vertices. Such graphs are necessarily bipartite and bi-regular, of valencies k and l say. There is a natural relationship between semisymmetric graphs and amalgams of groups. This leads us (...)

The Australian Academy of the Humanities Annual Lecture 2013, delivered by Professor Peter Hiscock FAHA, the Tom Austen Brown Professor of Australian Archaeology, The University of Sydney

Did Aboriginal people create an Eden-like estate or did they destroy the delicately balanced natural (...)

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There's also residential college tours, hands-on activities, live music, entertainment, and plenty of fun activities (...)

Australia Felix received two of the Yale School of Music highest honours, performing in the Yale Oneppo Chamber Music Series, as well as guest appearances at Carnegie Hall in New York. Together they have performed as part of the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra’s Metropolis Series and at venues (...)

Speakers: Farah Karim-Cooper (Head of Research, Shakespeare's Globe) "Reading Tactility in the Early Modern Playhouse", and Ian Donaldson (Honorary Professorial Fellow, University of Melbourne, Emeritus Professor ANU, CHE Advisory Board) "Noli Me Tangere: Interpreting a taboo"

Speaker: Patrick Clarke Title: Examining the Functional Role of the Prefrontal Cortex in Attentional Bias Acquisition: Evidence from tDCS

Biased attention to threatening information is consistently implicated in the development and maintenance of anxiety pathology (...)

The lecture will explore Islamic approaches to gender discrimination and gender justice. It will highlight the Qur'anic view of gender justice, human rights and legal status of female evidence in Islamic law. Professor Ahmad is the Vice Chancellor of Riphah International University, Islamabad (...)

The UWA School of Music Tuesday Seminar series runs every week in the Tunley Lecture Theatre (G5) at 5.00 pm. The series mixes visiting lecturers and presenters with presentations by the School's own research students at Honours, Masters and Doctor level. The focus and topic of presentations (...)

Abstract: We present a mathematical modelling process for the problem of earthquakes in subduction zones and megathrusts. To this end we study the behaviour of a fluid-saturated fault under shear, based on the assumption that the material inside exhibits rate- and temperature-dependent frictional (...)

Done well, teaching with technology has the potential to enhance learning. This can be achieved by the ways we present information, communicate with students, create communities, provide engaging learning experiences, and provide authentic learning and assessment tasks. This workshop will introduce (...)

Each year the Telethon Institute for Child Health Research hosts a Prospective Postgraduate Student Evening to inform potential students about the postgraduate opportunities available at the Institute, the School of Paediatrics and Child Health and Princess Margaret Hospital.

If you are (...)

A public lecture by Adam Ashforth, Helmut F. Stern Professor, Institute for the Humanities, and Department of Afroamerican and African Studies, University of Michigan.

In recent years a number of international organisations and humanitarian groups, along with refugee activists and (...)

Group work is continually being touted as a beneficial and necessary process for student learning and yet students often complain about it both from the point of view of distribution of work and fairness of assessment. How do you ensure students actually learn all that is intended and don't merely (...)

Free 50min Concert every Thursday

From an archaeological perspective the nature of the ‘palaeoeconomy’ has been a generally vague construct; being usually qualitatively addressed, and then typically only in more socially complex settings. But by using a combination of quantitative methods available in GIS and spatial analysis (...)

A public lecture and performance by Julianne Baird.

By the early eighteenth century Venice’s once considerable economic power had ebbed to a point where culture, rather than trade or manufacture, was her most characteristic field of activity. She drew visitors in huge numbers from all (...)

Abstract: In this study, we examine the relationship between market power of GPs in setting fees and several measures of quality of care. The data is derived from service claims from over 17,000 GPs in Australia between 2005 and 2010. We find evidence that market power, as measured by GP’s (...)