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Given the development of young people’s academic, social and emotional competencies in school settings is highly dependent on the presence of skilled and competent school staff, this presentation will discuss the relationship between school staff’s and students’ wellbeing and achievement.

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18:00 - PUBLIC TALK - WA on the threshold - new understanding, new discoveries and new opportunities with the SKA

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18:00 - EVENT - Postgraduate Law Mini Expo

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This panel discussion will showcase research on organisations, featuring a variety of speakers on topics including organisational change and structures, diversity and culture, and human behaviour and effectiveness in the organisational setting.

Speakers include Sharon Parker, Alex (...)

The South West of Western Australia has experienced a significant decline in rainfall since the mid-1970s, and further reductions are expected due to human-induced climate change. Increased groundwater extraction has helped meet water demand, but has tested the capacity of groundwater laws to keep (...)

Come along and learn more about Intellectual Property and what it can do for you:

. types of IP, why and how to protect it

. managing IP to protect future research opportunities

. accessing funding from various sources including Pathfinder, industry contracts (...)

This event, featuring Julie Lee and Geoff Soutar, will showcase research into universal human values. The lecture focuses on the structure of values within individuals (children and adults) and explores patterns and their implications across societies.

The event is suitable for (...)

This event, featuring Paul Flatau, will showcase research into programs and activities that create beneficial social impact. Social impact refers to all forms of significant change experienced by individuals and communities.

This includes income and labour market impacts, education (...)

Malcolm Walkinshaw was awarded his PhD from Edinburgh University and had post-doc appointments in the US and Germany working on protein crystallography. He led a structure-based drug discovery group in Sandoz (now Novartis) in Basel for ten years before returning to Edinburgh in 1995 to take up the (...)

This session will provide an overview of contemporary economic issues of local, national and global importance. Ken Clements will discuss the Australian Dollar. Rod Tyers will discuss the Global Economy. Michael McLure will discuss the GST and issues for Western Australia.

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Michael Giudici (UWA)

will speak on

Commuting graphs

at 3pm Friday 7 November in Mathematics Lecture Room 1.

Abstract:

Given a group G, the commuting graph of G is the graph with vertices the noncentral elements of G, and two vertices are (...)

R is a free and extremely powerful language and software environment for statistical computing, data analysis, and graphics. The course is designed for those who have no experience with R, but have a basic understanding of statistics. The course will include: Introduction to R: How to install R on (...)

Sausage Sizzle fundraiser to help support Tina Ly and Elyshia McNamara from Team Perkins raise money for the Weekend to End Women's Cancers

$3 Sausage in a roll $4 Sausage in a roll and a drink

A public lecture by Ann Curthoys, Honorary Professor of History, University of Sydney and 2014 IAS Short-Stay Visiting Fellow.

The years leading up to the passing of the Western Australian constitution in 1889 (effected in 1890) saw several interlocking public debates in WA itself and in (...)

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Ellen Fortini is a PhD student at the Harry Perkins Institute of Medical Research under the supervision of Dr Archa Fox. Here Ellen presents the work completed over the course of her (...)

The West Asian states of Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iraq and Iran have over the last few decades represented an arc of crisis. Characterised by fractured and dysfunctional political elites, fraught economic policies, and ideological struggles between the forces of authoritarianism and democratisation (...)

Eric Swartz (UWA)

will speak on

Antiflag-transitive generalized quadrangles

at 3pm Friday 14 November in Mathematics Lecture Room 1.

Abstract:

A generalized quadrangle is a point-line incidence geometry Q such that (1) any two points lie on at (...)

Lemnos is the Greek island 100 km from the Gallipoli peninsula that was used as the base from which the attack on the Turkish positions was launched and managed, but it tends to be ignored in accounts which focus on the fighting.

A public lecture by Dr Joseph Ndunguru, Molecular Plant Virologist, Mikocheni Agricultural Research Institute (MARI), Tanzania.

Cassava is an important food staple in sub Saharan Africa, however it is under threat from deadly viral diseases, which are decreasing yield and leaving many (...)

In this lecture, Dr Joseph Ndunguru will outline his involvement with the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and the subsequent investment in his viral diagnostic projects. He will also outline the increasing biosciences capacity in sub Saharan Africa that is leading the transformational change to (...)