What's On at UWA

This workshop is designed for experienced supervisors of research students at UWA want to update their current conceptions and practice of supervision at UWA, including updates on UWA policies and rules.

It provides an overview research training at UWA and is designed for supervisors of (...)

This workshop is for UWA staff and others who are new to supervision at UWA. It provides an overview of research training at UWA for those who are new to supervision, new to supervision at UWA or plan to supervise in the future. The workshop is grounded in the Graduate Research School's Policies (...)

Hanifa Deen explores the domestic and international responses to dissident Bangladeshi writer-in-exile, Taslima Nasreen. Following a newspaper interview the author gave in neighbouring India, violent demonstrations broke out in 1994 and she was accused of blasphemy. This led to an international (...)

In part, this seminar is a travelogue and, in part, it is an amateur study in comparative anthropology. While exploring many small, remote and near-isolated islands around the world I became fascinated by the history and sociology of the small human communities that occupied those corners of the (...)

The Visualisation and Poster reception is part of the DHA 2014 Conference held at UWA from 18-21 March 2014. The reception will exhibit electronic posters submitted by conference delegates, as well as presentations Dr Andrew Hutchison - presenting on virtual environments from the Sydney Kormoran (...)

A lecture by Professor Ullrich Steiner, Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge and Australian Academy of Science 2014 Selby Fellow.

Biological organisms have rather limited resources they can use to build the materials they are made of. Given these limitations, the range of (...)

Be transported from the everyday every Thursday in our free lunchtime concert series.

FREE 50min Concert every Thursday during Semester at 1:10pm. No booking required, just turn up!

Have you wanted to find a way to reward or recognise student achievement or progress in learning without necessarily providing marks? Or to allow students to demonstrate achievements that they can use externally to their university study?

Badges are an emerging feature of online and (...)

Pablo Spiga (Universita' di Milano-Bicocca)

will speak on

Have we ever tried to count Cayley graphs?

at 3pm Friday March the 21st in Weatherburn Lecture Theatre.

Abstract:

In this talk we give some elementary upper bounds on the number of (...)

The purpose of this day is to recognise the important role sessional teachers play in the delivery of a quality student experience and to thank them for their contribution.

2 FREE Lectures - All are welcome! 1:30pm - "Building the Baths of Caracalla" by W/Prof. David Kennedy. 2:30pm - Afternoon Tea. 3pm "Rome, Renewed - the Archaeology of Appropriation" by Rebecca Norman.

N.B. Lectures are FREE, however there is a small charge for the (...)

RAG Summer Lecture Series 2 Illustrated Lectures on The Baths of Caracalla, and Rome, Renewed.

Saturday 22nd March, 2014 1:30pm – 4:00pm

1:30pm - ”Building the Baths of Caracalla” presented by Winthrop Prof. David Kennedy. Dr. Sandra Ottley lectured on the Baths in a RAG (...)

Dr Mark Shackleton, one of the world’s leading cancer experts is a Medical Oncologist and a Group Leader of the Melanoma Research Laboratory at the Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre. After training in medical oncology at the Ludwig Institute in Melbourne, Dr Shackleton did his PhD at the Walter and (...)

The Speaker: Professor Jane Pillow is a clinical academic neonatologist at the University of Western Australia. She is acknowledged internationally as an expert in the area of neonatal respiratory physiology and mechanical ventilation. She has a particular research interest in high-frequency (...)

Jane Ginsborg

Practice-led research in music-making: What it can tell us about learning

An Inquiring Minds lecture by Winthrop Professor David Sampson, Head, Optical+Biomedical Engineering Laboratory (OBEL) and Director, Centre for Microscopy, Characterisation & Analysis (CMCA) at The University of Western Australia.

In this talk, Professor Sampson will tease apart fact (...)

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 (...)

This presentation addresses the central role of investment banks in bringing about the financial crisis of 2008. It specifically addresses some of the principal reasons why to date the investment banks and their executives have not been criminally prosecuted for grossly fraudulent activity in the (...)

Be transported from the everyday every Thursday in our free lunchtime concert series.

FREE 50min Concert every Thursday during Semester at 1:10pm. No booking required, just turn up!

This paper reports the results of a choice experiment to examine the features of marine offsets that the public finds acceptable. Offsets have become an established element of what is required if developments are to impose no net loss on the environment, once avoidance and mitigation activities (...)