What's On at UWA

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 (...)

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One motivation for this talk comes from representation theory: decomposing a tensor product of irreducible (or indecomposable) representations as a sum of smaller degree irreducible (or indecomposable) representations. Other motivations come from quantum mechanics and (...)

Roy Howat is internationally renowned as both a pianist and scholar whose concerts, broadcasts and lectures regularly take him worldwide. A graduate of King's College, Cambridge, he made a special study of French music in Paris with Vlado Perlemuter, and is one of few British artists repeatedly (...)

In this workshop participants will investigate the LMS Communication activities: Forums, Announcements, Chat, Feedback and Choice.

Professor Daniel Galvão is a Research scientist in exercise oncology and the Director of the Edith Cowan University Health and Wellness Institute, Perth, Western Australia. His work has facilitated the use of exercise as an important strategy to mitigate treatment side effects and improve (...)

The Seminar: All respiratory variables including tidal volume and respiratory rate display significant cycle by cycle variabilities. The purpose of this talk is to 1) show how observed variabilities can provide useful clinical information; 2) explore the origins of respiratory variability; 3) (...)

The Seminar:The Raine Study is one of the largest successful prospective cohorts of pregnancy, childhood, adolescence and now young adulthood in the world. It began in 1989 at King Edward Memorial Hospital with the recruitment of 2,900 pregnant women in early pregnancy. These families were (...)

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 (...)