What's On at UWA

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.

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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 (...)

Presenter 1: Julien Bureau

Julien is a PhD student at Universite de Montreal in Montreal, Canada. He is a visiting research fellow at UWA supported by the Endeavour Research Fellowships programme from the Australian government. His research focuses on dishonesty and he is particularly (...)

This is the first of this year's Chaplain's International Lectures, where religious perspectives attempt to advance contemporary issues and is sponsored by the chaplains of the University of Western Australia. Ray Simpson is the Guardian of the International Community of Aidan and Hilda based on (...)

In this public lecture, Jan Cilliers, Professor of Mineral Processing and Head of Department of Earth Science and Engineering in the Royal School of Mines at Imperial College London, will discuss techniques of industrial flotation, rather than simply laboratory or research curiosities. The talk (...)

This exhibition aims to challenge the way you view older adults. It will showcase the photographs and audio-narrated film of 14 residential care residents who volunteered their time and their stories to help educate us and health profession students. All welcome, RSVP to [email protected]

Our panelists include two of the foremost experts in the UK on Mental Health: Rachel Perkins OBE and Ron Coleman. The discussion will be facilitated by Associate Professor Maria Harries AM, Senior Honorary Research Fellow at UWA.

Brought to you by the School of Population Health and (...)

Come and learn about Intellectual Property and Commercialisation at UWA.

This seminar will give an overview of

. Intellectual Property - what it is and why it's important

. Patenting - what you need to get a patent

. Developing your idea - including (...)

Ruohan Li is a PhD student based at the Harry Perkins Institute of Medical Research. He completed his BSc (Hons) in Biomedical science from the University of Western Australia in 2009. After working in the field of plant biochemistry for a year, he then joined Dr. Archa Fox's laboratory to pursue (...)

School of Music is proud to present: Vocal Consort

Tickets: Entry is free, no bookings required.

Ninghan Pastoral Lease: Developing the History and Managing the Future - Stephen Wells

This research proposal examines the links between oral history, archival research and material culture and how these sources of information can be used to "tell the story" of Ninghan Pastoral (...)

This paper constructs annual data for the aggregate wealth-income ratio, W-Y, and the savings-growth ratio, s-g, for Britain 1210-2013. The data are used to test one of Pikettys central hypotheses that the W-Y ratio is governed by the s-g ratios in the long run, while accounting for major events (...)