What's On at UWA

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 (...)

A public lecture by Professor Alison Bartlett, Gender Studies, The University of Western Australia.

What kinds of objects can be said to have changed the world? This lecture investigates the associations between materiality and memory, the ways that material culture shapes our lives (...)

In August 2009, The University endorsed a series of principles around peer review of teaching at UWA, and a Good Practice Guide to support faculties, schools and individuals engaging in peer review of teaching. In this workshop, participants will be introduced to these resources and will examine (...)

After presenting a brief introduction and overview (based mainly on journalistic and secondary source articles), I rapidly show a succession of mostly web images picturing China's water pollution.

Stills from Mel Gibson's movie Apocalyto are gradually introduced to weave a comparison (...)

A public lecture by Katie Glaskin, Associate Professor of Anthropology, The University of Western Australia.

In Western thought, we generally understand dreams to occur ‘in the mind’. Anthropological studies show that what are understood as dreams in Western culture may be (...)

Linda Barwick from the University of Sydney will present a special guest lecture introducing the Western Arnhem Land Song Project Collection on 21 August at the Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery.

Linda Barwick will present work undertaken by her research team on the Western Arnhem Land Song (...)

Abstract: Dr Zubieta will discuss a particular white painted tradition in south-central Africa (Zambia, Malawi and Mozambique) linked to the Chewa matrilineal group. She will show how women employed these images, probably as recently as in the last century, to communicate important lessons within (...)

A lecture by Professor Andrew J. Pitman, Director of the ARC Centre of Excellence for Climate System Science, University of New South Wales.

The report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, in 2007, stated that there is “considerable confidence that climate models provide (...)

This paper focuses on the conceptualisation of the repatriation of Indigenous human remains, museum and national government repatriation policies. It is prompted by a request made of the British Museum, in 2011, by Torres Strait Islanders for the return of two skulls of Torres Strait origin that (...)

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Symmetry breaking involves colouring the elements of a combinatorial structure so that the resulting structure has no nontrivial symmetries. In this talk I'll give an introduction to symmetry breaking, with a particular focus on infinite graphs. I'll also discuss a number of (...)

Be part of this special performance featuring Australia’s own mezzo-soprano Caitlin Hulcup, who returns to Perth as part of a unique UWA Artist in Residency program. Based in Vienna, Caitlin has appeared at leading opera houses including Wiener Staatsoper, Deutsche Staatsoper Berlin, Royal Opera (...)

LIWA invites you to a free seminar on: "Regulator of G protein Signalling 5 and Vascular Remodelling" by Prof Ruth Ganss, Head of Angiogenesis and Tumor Immunology Research, Western Australian Institute for Medical Research. A light lunch will be served from 12.00pm with a 12.30pm – 1.30 (...)

Despite suicidal ideation exhibiting variability, limited research has examined the short-term course of suicidal ideation. We hypothesised first, that distinct patterns of suicidal ideation could be identified by tracking daily ratings of suicidal thinking, and second that a predictive model based (...)