What's On at UWA

Public lecture by Michael Barbezat, Postdoctoral Fellow, ARC Centre of Excellence for the History of Emotions.

In this presentation, Michael Barbezat will argue that medieval calls for divinely sanctioned murder relied heavily upon a discourse of love. He will follow the use of the (...)

The Australian Centre for Geomechanics (ACG) will host the ACG Physical and Numerical Modelling of Caving Mechanics Workshop alongside The AusIMM’s Seventh International Conference and Exhibition on Mass Mining 2016. Our one-day workshop will bring together industry experts to discuss this topic.

The UWA Cultural Precinct and the Institute of Advanced Studies are pleased to invite you to a conversation with multi-media artist Khaled Sabsabi.

How do we curate diverse stories, voices and languages of so-called marginalised people in Australian society? This Conversation with Khaled (...)

South Africa is unique in the contemporary world in that it uses indigenous rock art images in its major national symbols. For example rock art appears at the heart of the national coat-of-arms and on all banknotes. One can judge whether a banknote is genuine by folding it and seeing whether the (...)

Public lecture by Professor Richard M. Ryan, Institute for Positive Psychology and Education, Australian Catholic University and 2016 IAS Short-Stay Visiting Fellow.

Dr Ryan will present research based on self-determination theory (SDT) concerning how managers, teachers, coaches (...)

Abstract: This paper investigates international responses of key macroeconomic variables, particularly real exchange rates, to simultaneous shocks to productivity in the traded sector in eight Asian emerging and developing countries. We use panel estimation techniques to construct component (...)

Time and place: 16:00 Friday 13 May in Blakers LT

Speaker: John Bamberg (UWA)

Title: Hemisystem-like structures in finite geometries

Abstract: This is a longer version of the talk I will be giving at “New Directions in Combinatorics” (Singapore). Beniamino (...)

Speak with a UniSuper financial adviser on campus No matter what stage of life you’re at, UniSuper Advice can offer you quality financial advice. Why not come along to a complimentary on-campus advice appointment to find out first hand if UniSuper Advice can help your financial situation? Stephen (...)

Barrow Island provides a unique window into human-landscape dynamics on the drowned coastal plain of the North West Shelf. Caves, rock shelters and some thirty open sites provide evidence for stone artefacts, dietary shellfish and fauna, many of which are not found on Barrow Island today. New (...)

Professor Chris Parish received his undergraduate training at the University of Melbourne and then gained a PhD degree in Immunology at The Walter & Eliza Hall Institute, Melbourne. He has spent most of his scientific career in Canberra at the John Curtin School of Medical Research, ANU and (...)

This Seminar provides members with the key issues to consider when entering retirement. Whether planning for an immediate retirement of just seeking to gain a better understanding of the central issues, this comprehensive seminar includes information on: Accessing superannuation benefits Retirement (...)

Notionally, Gallop House, Dalkeith, WA is a heritage-listed colonial house built c. 1873on the banks of Derbarl Yerrigan (Swan River).However, the house is just one extant part of a wider, multi-ethnic colonial landscape. Settled by Adam Armstrong in 1831 CE, the property has had multiple owners (...)

The advent of new technologies has enabled important advances in understanding animal evolution, with many long-standing paradigms overturned in recent decades. However, the key to many of these advances has been the discovery of previously unknown taxa. Exploration of the deep sea and polar waters (...)

Abstract: Despite the enthusiasm displayed by parents for their athletic children to pursue professional sports careers, Rosen and Sanderson (2001) state that odds of succeeding in the “big leagues” are “vanishingly small" even though data are not available to actually calculate the (...)

Academic cheating is a serious problem for many countries, with the highest prevalence of the misconduct found in the senior secondary level of school (Craig & Evans, 1990; Schab, 1991; Anderman & Midgley, 2004; Finn & Frone, 2004). In Indonesia, academic cheating is mainly spotted in (...)

Be transported from the everyday in our free lunchtime concert series, featuring the finest musical talent locally, nationally and within the School.

Please join the UWA Guitar Ensemble in the intimate Eileen Joyce Studio. Under the direction of Jonathan Fitzgerald be inspired by a (...)

Time and place: 16:00 Friday 20 May in Weatherburn LT

Speaker: Luke Morgan (UWA)

Title: The Weiss Conjecture and inspirations thereof

Abstract: In 1979 Richard Weiss made a beautiful conjecture: There exists a function f on the natural numbers such that, for each (...)

Free Public Lecture: The Social Impact of Social Media

Hashtag activists: Local communities, social media and the fall of Australia’s coal seam gas industry

Presented by Sara Bice - social scientist and Director of Research Translation for the Melbourne School of Government - (...)

While there are now many sophisticated imaging techniques to study biological systems, chemical tools are needed to gain an understanding of what is happening in the cell, on a molecular level. We are interested in designing small molecule sensors to probe sub-cellular molecular species, especially (...)

My thesis will focus on long-term marine assemblages from the Carnarvon Bioregion of north-west Australia and is part of the larger ARC Barrow Island Archaeology Project (BIAP). Dating of archaeological record on Barrow Island positions early shellfish and faunal assemblages as some of the earliest (...)