What's On at UWA

Prof James Enns - Department of Psychology, The University of British Columbia

James Enns is a distinguished University Scholar and Professor in the Department of Psychology at UBC and an Adjunct Professor at UWA working with Troy Visser on collaborative grants. He is also currently the (...)

The Seminar: We are all very aware of cardiovascular disease (CVD) and the impact it has across the world. Nearly everyone at this talk will know of someone who has suffered from CVD (e.g. heart attack, stroke, aneurysm, etc) or who was directly affected by the disease. Did you know that it kills (...)

In this article we decompose the joint and individual contributions of tariff reductions, productivity changes and capital deepening to account for the skill premium patterns of the transition economies that joined the European Union (EU) in 2004. To conduct our analysis, we construct an applied (...)

Time and place: 15:00 Friday 24 April in Blakers LT.

Speaker: Bart De Bruyn (Ghent University)

Title: Regular near hexagons and Q-polynomial distance-regular graphs.

Abstract: A near 2d-gon is a point-line geometry with diameter d having the property that for every (...)

Department of Psychology and the Centre for Elite Performance, Expertise and Training, Macquarie University

Mark Wiggings is a Professor of Organizational Psychology at Macquarie University. He gained his PhD in Psychology from the University of Otago, New Zealand in 2001. Mark is (...)

This lecture by David Gordon, Director of the Queen's University School of Urban and Regional Planning will present current practice in better design and redevelopment of suburban areas, extensively illustrated with examples from across Canada provided by the Council for Canadian Urbanism.

In the Zone is The University of Western Australia's premier forum on regional affairs. This ambitious conference series aims to engage stakeholders in Australia and in key Asian cities directly, to encourage networking and collaboration between decision makers across the zone and to share UWA's (...)

This presentation focuses on the transformation of everyday food into a connoisseurial object in contemporary Japan. Ramen (noodle soup) as a case study, I analyze various methods and styles to transform this everyday food into a "gourmet" food. Ramen was mostly inexpensive and (...)

Time and place: 15:00 Friday 1 May in Weatherburn LT.

Speaker: David Roberson (Nanyang Technological University)

Title: Cores of cubelike graphs.

Abstract: A graph is said to be cubelike if it is a Cayley graph for some power of the group of order two. The core of a (...)

The School of Music in collaboration with the Government House Foundation concert series, Music on the Terrace, we celebrate the opening of our 2015 season with an Artistry & Keyed Up spectacular in the sublime Government House Ballroom, as pianist Mark Coughlan leads the UWA Symphony Orchestra (...)

RDI is sponsoring two UWA students or staff to attend the Ignition Innovation and Entrepreneurship Course in 2015.

Ignition is an intensive 5.5 day education program for aspiring entrepreneurs, academics and corporate innovators to trial and prepare their business ideas for the (...)

In this public lecture, Jonathan Rigg, Professor of Geography at the National University of Singapore, will argue that 'liberal resilience' plays into a growth-development-resilience 'trap' where economic growth has become a de facto synonym for development and, often, development a synonym for (...)

This seminar will outline the development path of iCeutica, a Biotech company with origins at UWA, that developed from concept to multiple FDA approved drugs and exit in less than 10 years. The story has relevance for anyone contemplating commercialization of their research endeavours.

Ja (...)

School of Music is proud to present: UWA Strings:

Tickets: Entry is free, no bookings required.

This research explores non-indigenous peoples affective responses to Aboriginal heritage within settler colonial landscapes. The study is set on Yorke Peninsula, an agricultural district that yields some of the state's highest wool and grain harvests. The non-indigenous farming community have deep (...)

In this public lecture, Sarah Murray from the Law School at The University of Western Australia will explore her research into Neighbourhood Justice Courts and the NJCs in Western Australia and the nation more generally. The City of Yarra in Melbourne is the home of Australia's only NJC, however (...)

This paper focuses on public writing on the island of Saibai, Torres Strait. Public writing includes housenames, memorials, t-shirts and tombstone epitaphs, all of which are accompanied by extensive visual material. Read in isolation, the housenames, epitaphs, monuments and t-shirts yield (...)

Time and place: 15:00 Friday 8 May in Weatherburn LT.

Speaker: Shujiao Song (University of Western Australia)

Title: On the stabilisers of locally 2-transitive graphs.

Abstract: For a connected locally (G,2)-transitive graph and an edge {v,w}, both the induced (...)

The lecture focuses on the role of Islam as both a constructive and a disruptive force. It also encourages inter-faith dialogue and aspires to building an understanding of Islam and the Muslim society. The central axis of the lecture is the way in which religious thought, individual believers and (...)