What's On at UWA

A lecture by Julie McKay, Executive Director, Australian National Committee for UN Women.

Despite significant increases in public debate about gender equality and the empowerment of women, progress towards equality for women is slow, and risks stalling. While measures of women’s (...)

The Centre for Cell Therapy and Regenerative Medicine is holding its Annual Research Symposium on Tuesday 15 April 2014 at the Harry Perkins Institute of Medical Research from 8.45 am – 4.30 pm. The theme for the meeting is “At the cutting edge: New Developments in Regenerative Medicine” Prof (...)

'What Matters to me and why' is a series of lunch time talks and conversations with UWA Academics. The talks explore personal stories of family, place, formative influences and how such factors continue to shape people's lives and academic work.

Professor Keep will share some of her (...)

Krista Low (MMus Candidate): Cello Performance Practice and the Decline of Romanticism in the Early Twentieth Century

Assistant Professor Ashley Smith: Practising Ferneyhough

This talk deals with the problem of determining the connectivity probability of a random graph model. For even moderately sized random graphs this probability can not be computed exactly, so we apply Monte Carlo methods. If connectivity is a rare event (for example p < 10^(-5)) then simple (...)

This session is for all academic and sessional teaching staff at UWA, particularly those interested in developing teaching portfolios or teaching award submissions. This session will examine what constitutes robust evidence. This workshop is intended to provide the evidence basis for the workshop (...)

Helen Stain is currently Senior Clinical Lecturer at Durham University where the focus of her post is on the research of psychological interventions for youth mental health and includes a clinical role with the NHS Foundation Trust. Prior to this appointment in 2012, Helen was in private practice (...)

LMS for New Users will provide participants with an introductory overview of the Moodle powered LMS (Learning Management System) used as our online learning environment here at UWA. You will need to complete this workshop before being eligible to take part in any intermediate or advanced LMS (...)

With a compelling case, Dr Hugh Ross will challenge the commonly held misconception "everyone knows the Bible teaches scientific nonsense". The study of nature or science will be shown to complement and build confidence in the integrity of the Bible, without having to compromise eithe (...)

Set on a lovely bush block in Mundaring this Quiet Day provides some space to 'be alone' in the company of other UWA academics and professional staff with the intention of marking out some good quality thinking/reflection time.

There is no formal 'content' to the day – no (...)

The Department of Water has an extensive State-wide network of monitoring bores and gauging stations that has records going back to the early 1900’s. The types of projects that Department’s water information was used for in 2013 was wide ranging including: infrastructure proposals, foreshore (...)

This session is for all teaching staff who have an interest in designing better or alternate assessment items. The workshop provides an overview, explanation and discussion around the elements of effective assessment including assessment alignment, levels of thinking, variation, frequency and (...)

Participants will explore the functionality of the Grades area (from both a staff and student perspective) and learn how to use it effectively for grade administration.

Freshwater fishes are typically conceived as existing in genetically structured subpopulations, where gene flow is low and (effective) population sizes are small. This owes to the patchy nature of freshwater habitat, the dendritic structure of rivers, and the presence of in-stream barriers (e.g. (...)

A public lecture by Jeremy O’Brien, Director of the Centre for Quantum Photonics, University of Bristol.

The impact of quantum technology will be profound and far-reaching: secure communication networks for consumers, corporations and government; precision sensors for biomedical (...)

1. ARC Centre of Excellence in Cognition and its Disorders, School of Psychology, The University of Western Australia 2. DFG Research Unit Person Perception, Friedrich Schiller University of Jena, Germany

Two presentations from the Australasian Experimental Psychology Conference.

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16:30 - SEMINAR - School of Music Presents: Research Seminar Series - Iain Grandage

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iVEC's Supercomputing Team invites you to join us at iVEC@UWA (Room G11, Physics Building) on Wednesday 30 April 2014, for "Profiling Party III." The Profiling Party is from 9:00 am - 4:00 pm, but you are welcome to take part at any time during the day.

This is an opportunity (...)

Supporting students through professional placements and meeting the needs of workplace partners and external regulations poses a range of challenge for university coordinators, especially when issues of disability and mental health are added to the situation. In response to such dilemmas, a (...)

Multiple environmental changes challenge traditional notions of ecological restoration. One option for the future may be to plant mixtures of native species to achieve desired ecosystem functions such as tightly cycling nutrients, carbon sequestration, resistance against weed invasion and (...)