What's On at UWA

Come and find out about UWA’s undergraduate and postgraduate courses, scholarship opportunities, outstanding career options and explore our community programs and facilities.

This year there will be campus tram tours, hands-on activities, live music and entertainment, as well as plenty (...)

This panel session is being held as a part of UWA Open Day on Sunday 10 August, 2014.

Aimed at a wider audience, including parents, teachers, students and the community, this panel session will provide insight into the benefits of studying at UWA, told through the personal experiences of (...)

Dr Vanessa Beanland is a Lecturer in the Research School of Psychology at The Australian National University. Her primary research interests are visual attention, inattention and distraction, particularly as they pertain to road user behaviour. Prior to joining ANU in January 2013, Vanessa worked (...)

Talk to our internationally renowned medical researchers individually. All available Honours and PhD student projects outlined at this casual sundowner in the stunning foyer of the new Perkins building within QEII. Park in the visitors carpark off Verdun street.

A public talk by Sergei Katsev, Associate Professor, Large Lakes Observatory, University of Minnesota and 2014 UWA Gledden Visiting Fellow.

The string of large lakes held by the East African Rift is a true marvel of the World. These lakes contain a quarter of all the fresh water on the (...)

We invite you to attend our upcoming information evening which will give you the opportunity to: meet Faculty of Law staff; learn about the Juris Doctor and the admissions requirements for the course; discuss your study options; and have all your questions answered before applying.

Students of Natural and Agricultural Sciences (SNAGS) and The UWA Institute of Agriculture would like to invite you to a breakfast to commemorate the role of women in agriculture.

Lake Shinji is a brackish shallow lake in Japan. Its surface area is 86.8 km2 and the average water depth is 4.5 m. In 2001 the Japanese government (MLIT) started a project to construct an artificial shallow area around the shoreline where concrete embankments had been constructed and the water (...)

Panel discussion on the topic "Crossing the line" with a focus on fighting attitudes that seek to silence the voices of women, and to highlight the importance of women speaking out and sharing their stories and views. Featuring a special tribute to UWA W/Prof Philippa Maddern. Light (...)

The 2014 ATSE lecture by Dr Rob Hough, Australian Resources Research Centre, CSIRO.

In this talk, Rob will describe the ways that science and innovation are helping to find the resources that can provide a prosperous future for Australia.

Just a small proportion of Australia's (...)

The Industrial Relations Society of WA, in conjunction with the UWA Business School, is pleased to support the Fair Work Commission Education Series Lecture in Perth.

The FWC Lecture Series features presentations on a range of workplace relations topics by local and international experts (...)

Associate Professor Stuart Hodgetts is currently Director of the Spinal Cord Repair Laboratory in the School of Anatomy, Physiology & Human Biology (APHB), at The University of Western Australia (UWA). Now funded almost entirely by the Neurotrauma Research Program of Western Australia (NRP) (...)

Group work is continually being touted as a beneficial and necessary process for student learning and yet students often complain about it both from the point of view of distribution of work and fairness of assessment. How do you ensure students actually learn all that is intended and don't merely (...)

During 2013/14 Scarp Archaeology in collaboration with BHP Billiton and the Nyiyarparli People undertook a large scale research project focused on discovering and documenting Aboriginal archaeological sites of high significance throughout the Nyiyarparli Native Title claim area, in the Eastern (...)

The twenty-first century is often characterised as an era of unprecedented mobility and interconnectivity, but it is also marked by efforts to reinforce national borders and curtail human movement. Paradoxes of mobility and immobility in our increasingly unequal world come into sharp focus when (...)

The Perth USAsia Centre is proud to host three experienced diplomats for an insightful discussion on Australia - Japan - US trilateral relations.

This study relies on production theory to construct Luenberger indicators for quality of living across countries. Compared to the famous Human Development Index (HDI), which uses simple weights to average over outcomes, the Luenberger indicator uses a best-practice or frontier approach to the (...)

Groups and Combinatorics Seminar

Joanna Fawcett (UWA)

will speak on

Locally triangular graphs and rectagraphs with symmetry

at 3pm on Friday 15 of August in Weatherburn LT

Abstract: Locally triangular graphs are known to be halved graphs of (...)

The program will provide a solid introduction to the body of research around student learning and effective teaching. For those who have some teaching experience, it will provide a firm foundation upon which to improve your teaching and develop your teaching skills. For those new to teaching, it (...)

Prof Singh has acted as principal investigator on numerous clinical trials of novel therapies in asthma and COPD, and has over 100 publications in peer reviewed journals. He is a member of the GOLD science committee.