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September 2013
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Thursday 05 |
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 (...)
16:00 - SEMINAR - ARCHAEOLOGY SEMINAR SERIES : Rock Markings-A useful archaeological category?
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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 (...)
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Friday 06 |
12:00 - SEMINAR - Economics Seminar : (Don’t) Make My Vote Count
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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 (...)
15:00 - SEMINAR - Groups and Combinatorics Seminar, Connections between Graph Theory & Combinatorics on Words
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A string or word is usually thought of as a sequence of letters drawn from some alphabet. Applications to bioinformatics and other areas suggest the utility of defining strings on subsets of the alphabet instead -- so-called "indeterminate" strings. I describe (...)
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Tuesday 10 |
13:00 - SEMINAR - Lipid replacement of myofibres in dysferlin-deficient muscles : School of Anatomy, Physiology & Human Biology Seminar Series
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The Seminar: There many forms of muscular dystrophy that affect skeletal muscles; some manifest in children e.g. Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy (DMD), whereas the onset for others is after adolescence e.g. dyferlinopathies, or in older adults. Thus age and growth influence the onset and severity of (...)
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Wednesday 11 |
12:00 - EVENT - What matters to me and why : A conversation with Erika Techera, Dean of the Faculty of Law
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Lunch time talk: What Matters to me and Why (with Erika Techera, Dean of the Faculty of Law)
When: Wednesday 11th September, 2013 12pm to 1.30pm
Where: Science Library – 3rd Floor meeting room
'What Matters to me and why' is a series of lunch time talks and (...)
This session will examine what constitutes robust evidence. This workshop is intended to provide the evidence basis for the workshop on Developing your Teaching Portfolio.
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Thursday 12 |
This workshop will examine:
Why it is important to set out a proper case with respect to teacher and unit evaluations.
How you go about demonstrating a case.
Key elements in showing the effectiveness of your teaching.
What other evidence can be included to support your teaching.
16:00 - EVENT - Archaeology Seminar Series : Space and Place: Using Geographical Information Systems to Assess Theories of Late Holocene Economic Landscape Use in the Eastern Hamersley Ranges of Western Australia
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The current paradigm of arid zone landscape use in Australia during the late Holocene focuses on the opportunistic exploitation of ephemeral resources by flexibly sized social groups. This generalized model of landscape use has been adapted to explain human behaviour patterns in a wide variety of (...)
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Friday 13 |
12:00 - SEMINAR - Economics Seminar : Religion, Minority Status and Trust: Evidence from a Field Experiment
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It is now well accepted that trust is crucial for economic and social development. There is also evidence that religion strongly affects how individuals act when interacting with others. The same is true of status. Using a field experiment conducted in Bangladesh and West Bengal, India, two (...)
13:30 - EVENT - Asian Studies Seminar Series : The Javanese University in Uncertainty: Between Neoliberal Globalisation and Islamisation
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This research will explore how neoliberalism and Islamic resurgence intersect and interact within a secular Javanese higher education institution that I will call The Javanese University (TJU). In keeping with anthropological commitments to understanding the world from the ground up, I will focus (...)
15:00 - SEMINAR - Groups and Combinatorics Seminar, On The Non-commuting Graph
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In this talk, we will consider the non-commuting graph of a non-abelian finite group G; its vertex set is the set of non-central elements of G, and two distinct vertices x and y are joined by an edge if they do not commute together. Actually, we study some properties of the (...)
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Monday 16 |
13:00 - EVENT - Rose Lucas poetry reading : Rose Lucas will read from her new book, Even in the Dark
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The Westerly Centre and UWA Publishing will host a poetry reading by visiting poet, Rose Lucas, from her latest book, Even in the Dark.
In this, her first book of poetry, Lucas distills years of writing into an impressive debut. Even in the Dark contains delicate poems of the lives of (...)
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Tuesday 17 |
13:00 - Colloquium - Some Results From the Motivational Leadership Training Program : Psychology Colloquium
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Organizations need to know how to motivate and engage their employees in a healthy fashion (i.e., preserving or enhancing their well-being). A large number of organizations send their managers to leadership training, even though we know surprisingly little about its impact on employee motivation (...)
17:00 - SEMINAR - School of Music presents International Research Seminar - Stephen Benfall and Naomi Smout
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Stephen Benfall: The Music of John Exton: An investigation into the factors that shaped his compositions in the years 1972 - 1979.
Naomi Smout: Reflections on performing 20th cenury Argentine Piano music
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Wednesday 18 |
9:00 - WORKSHOP - OII PhD Retreat 2013: Developing Commercialisation Skills Workshop : 18 and 19 September 2013
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This two day workshop will be structured into discrete modules along the following lines and will be presented in an interactive manner, by both UWA and external presenters:
• UWA IP Policies and Processes
• IP and IP Protection
• Assessing Commercial (...)
16:00 - SEMINAR - CWR Presents : Inflow controls on the spatial distribution and composition of phytoplankton in Marina Reservoir, Singapore
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Understanding the drivers of phytoplankton composition and abundance is important for the management of water quality in reservoirs.
In the Republic of Singapore, the construction of coastal barrages in recent years has seen several low-lying estuaries converted into shallow reservoirs to secure (...)
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Thursday 19 |
When making assessments, questions such as the following are often not examined:
What is the difference between an exceptionally good piece of assessment and a poor piece of assessment?
Over and above testing, what have students learned and retained, and what should assessment offer the students? (...)
Free 50min Concert every Thursday during Semester at 1:10pm
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Friday 20 |
12:30 - SYMPOSIUM - Archaeology Symposium : New Approaches to World Rock Art
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Mini International Rock Art Symposium
We are pleased to announce the following speakers:
Dr Sam Challis, Rock Art Research Institute, South Africa
"Rock art, interaction and creolization on the South African colonial frontier"
Dr Catherine Namono, Rock (...)
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