What's On at UWA

This workshop is aimed at those who already have a basic working knowledge of PowerPoint, but would like to learn to present more interesting and effective presentations.

It will cover both the technical and the pedagogical aspects of successful PowerPoint design, and is aimed at (...)

Douglas Bakkum received a PhD in Neuroengineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology and Emory University in Atlanta, GA, USA. His interdisciplinary background spans research in mechanical engineering, robotics, artificial intelligence, neuroscience, and art. His current position is a group (...)

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 (...)

The Teaching and Learning Orientation aims to provide new teaching staff with an overview of teaching and learning policy and practice at UWA as well as information on campus-wide services that support teaching and learning. This session will run after the Staff Orientation Program - http://www.hr.u (...)

Abstract: Australia’s tropical rivers are the lifeblood of the region. They provide immense social, cultural and economic benefits and underpin internationally recognized biodiversity and conservation values. They are among the most healthy river systems in the country but they are facing (...)

News media often portray Canadian Muslim youth as alienated from society and prone to radicalisation. This lecture focuses on a more complex reality of alienation and engagement, seen through the lens of perceptions of political participation. Using qualitative interview data from 30 Muslim youth (...)

Set on a lovely bush block in Mundaring this Quiet Day provides 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 are no formal presentations and no flip charts or (...)

This course aims to provide you with an introduction to the facilities available in MS Excel from a statistical point of view. As well as an introduction to Excel, spreadsheet functions and graphics, it concentrates on performing basic statistical methods, producing charts and tables, and discusses (...)

In the past months there have been several claims about the declining figures in the public transport patronage. This seminar envisages analysing public transport trends over the last decade using Perth Transport Authority (PTA) datasets. Through this analysis, the aim is to determine the validity (...)

This workshop will provide an overview of what a rubric is and the steps involved in development. The practical hands-on workshop will allow staff to consider their current/future assessment tasks and effective ways of assessing these using rubrics.

Professor Knight has published over 110 papers and 4300+ citations and a H-index = 36, and is focused on his research interests of pulmonary pharmacology and pathology and how they impact on airway and lung function.

Professor Knight received his BSc Honours degree in Pharmacology and his PhD from The University of Western Australia and undertook post-doctoral training at the University of British Columbia from 1995-1997. From 1997 to 2001 he was a Senior Research Officer in the Asthma & Allergy Research (...)

The Pop West research project will analyse a range of popular media–film, music, radio, television, storytelling, maps and novels–to explore how different political formations come to popularise and understand their own wests.

The Pop West Project began in late 2013 when researchers (...)

The Institute of Advanced Studies is pleased to be a co-sponsor of a series of events as part of the 'Afghanistan: Hidden Treasures from the National Museum, Kabul' exhibition, presented by the WA Museum.

This lecture by Professor William Maley, AM FASSA, Professor and Director of the (...)

Associate Prof Mark Hutchinson is an Australian Research Council Research Fellow in the School of Medical Sciences at the University of Adelaide. Having graduated with a PhD (Med) in Pharmacology from the University of Adelaide, Mark joined Prof Linda Watkins lab at the University of Colorado at (...)

A public lecture by Peter Jones, Senior Lecturer in the Department of Geography, University College London.

There are growing societal concerns about the health of our seas and increasing interest in the potential of marine protected areas (MPAs) to help address these concerns. However (...)

The Seminar: A growing body of literature suggests that central nervous system axons are not just stable transmission cables, but actively contribute to information processing, for example, by modulating action potential magnitude or velocity and cell excitability. However, the axon's submicron (...)

A remarkable skill that is often taken for granted is the ability of the human cognitive system to distinguish between multiple simultaneously active speakers. In fact, in 1953 a challenge was proposed to the engineering community:

"How do we recognise what one person is saying when (...)

This workshop is aimed at new teaching staff looking to develop teaching skills. Experienced tutors will also benefit from attendance as a re-energiser and refresher to current teaching repertoire. The workshop will be run in such a way as to model the facilitation of a small group teaching session (...)

Anne Thomas (University of Glasgow)

will speak on

Quasi-isometry and commensurability for right-angled Coxeter groups

at 3pm Friday 1 August in Weatherburn Lecture Theatre

Abstract: Let Gamma be a finite simple graph with vertex set S. The associated (...)