What's On at UWA

As the Australian LNG sector continues to grapple with productivity challenges, Doug Buckley, VP Commercial Shell Australia, will talk about the role innovation has to play in keeping Australia competitive in the global gas market, and attracting future investment.

Peter Hartley, BHP (...)

In education, the role of assessment is ubiquitous and indispensable. However, even though it is intended to enhance performance, because it has the potential to corrupt learning, ‘teaching to the test' has a pejorative connotation. In academe, a relatively new phenomenon of being assessed by one (...)

This seminar will give an overview of the water supply planning in Western Australia. There are two main components of planning water supply systems:

SOURCE PLANNING

Source planning involves the selection of a water source to supply an area. From a technical point of (...)

With a thriving community of composers and celebrated staff mentoring their progress, this evening promises to be quite special. In this concert, new compositions for chamber ensemble and voice will be performed as finalists compete in the annual Dorothy Ransom prize in Composition. This event (...)

Scope: How do you creatively plan for a population of 62 million by 2100? Australia’s current major city planning frameworks only account for an extra 5.5 million people. Whether we want a ‘Big Australia’ or not, Australia’s 21st century is likely to see rapid and continual growth – if (...)

Once the orthography for te reo Maori was established in 1820, Maori became exposed to the technology and practice of reading and writing. Certainly the impact of literacy on an indigenous “oral” society can be immense. Missionaries introduced both writing and print culture simultaneously as (...)

A public lecture by Angela Wanhalla, University of Otago.

Maori, the indigenous people of New Zealand, were a popular subject of the photographic trade in the colonial era. As in other colonial societies where indigenous peoples were captured by the camera, photographs of Maori were (...)

There is significant potential to improve the value for money generated by public investments in environmental projects and in environmental economics, although there are significant challenges in each case. Environmental managers and policy makers should select for funding those projects that (...)

Abstract: We examine within-family differences in pre and early postnatal investments as explanations for the “birth order effect” – significant differences in the Educational and labor market outcomes across children of varying birth orders. Taking advantage of the rich information on in (...)

The historicizing of collective memory in the eighteenth/nineteenth centuries has often been considered the foundation of modern historical scholarship. To this extent, such inquiry exists in an effort to ‘capture memory and history in equipoise’ (Hutton 1993). The means by which we consciously (...)

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In this talk, I will give an introduction to decomposition theory of 3-connected matroids. In order to make it more accessible I will also introduce some related definitions and examples.

Over the last ten years, Caitlin Hulcup has established herself as one of Australia’s most celebrated mezzo soprano’s. She returns to Perth in August as UWA School of Music Artist in Residence. In this special performance Caitlin joins with UWA’s own Paul Wright (violin), Suzanne Wijsman (ce (...)

This conference explores the possibilities of scientific and technological applications to crop improvement and crop management under drought-prone farming, by linking progress made at the molecular level to that at the whole plant and crop levels in the field. The conference will also provide (...)

Adam Wigley: Music and literacy: Things to know and tell

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 (...)

We are investigating insect adaptations for plant sap utilization from the perspective of molecular physiology, with the goal to identify molecular targets to control pest species.

The three-dimensional hydrodynamic Estuary, Lake and Coastal Ocean Model (ELCOM) coupled with the ecological Computational Aquatic Ecosystem DYnamics Model (CAEDYM) was applied to Urayama Reservoir in order to examine the effect of an inflow bypass on the water quality in the reservoir. The (...)

A public lecture by Marion Stamp Dawkins, Professor of Animal Behaviour, University of Oxford.

Cost: Free, but RSVP required. Register online: http://2050food2-eorg.eventbrite.com.au/#

Greater efficiency may for some people be an obvious goal for providing food security for an (...)

This workshop will focus on the criteria and evidence that can be included in a teaching portfolio and used for PDR and promotion. You will leave this session confident and eager to make a start on your own portfolio. This workshop is a good follow-up to the 'What counts as evidence of good (...)

Archaeology is concerned with identifying and interpreting marks, literal and metaphoric, left behind by people past and present. Rock art is one such mark, sub-divided into ‘engravings/petroglyphs’, ‘paintings/pictographs’ and ‘geoglyphs’. But there is also an overlooked and (...)

Abstract: Proponents of proportional electoral rules often argue that majority rule depresses turnout and may lower welfare due to the “tyranny of the majority” problem. The present paper studies the impact of electoral rules on turnout and social welfare. We analyze a model of instrumental (...)