What's On at UWA

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 (...)

Most Australian universities have replaced mathematics pre-requisites with assumed knowledge for entrance requirements. Exactly what knowledge is assumed and what steps are taken to remedy and lack of mathematics knowledge? I will report on two pilot studies. The first is of Science and Engineering (...)

Public lecture by Simon Denegri, National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) National Director for Patients and the Public in Research and Chair, INVOLVE

The role of patients, carers and the public in medical and health research is changing fast. What are the challenges and (...)

In this seminar, I examine asylum provision by two countries as a discontinuous game of public good provision. The discontinuity of payoff functions among the providers results from the destination choices that asylum seekers make for their asylum applications. It is well known that a discontinuous (...)

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

Under the leadership of Helpmann Award winner and Head of Vocal Studies, Andrew Foote, celebrate our young emerging artists in an exciting (...)

Global higher education is now situated in an open information environment in which national borders are routinely crossed and cultural identities are constantly shaped through encounters with diverse others. With over 4.5 million students on the move, pedagogical implications are potentially (...)

Australian children have been the focus of pioneering studies of early language development. These contemporary Australian population studies of language growth and patterns over time are producing a vastly different picture from the boutique studies of the early 1970’s that positioned language (...)

AFRICA DAY is celebrated internationally each year on 25 May in commemoration of the founding of the Organisation of African Unity (OAU) in 1963. Among the OAU's key purposes was to promote Pan-Africanism, integration and unity between Africa's newly independent states during the era of (...)

Time and place: 16:00 Friday 27 May in Weatherburn LT

Speaker: Phill Schultz (UWA)

Title: What do you do when Krull-Schmidt fails?

Abstract: I present some old and some new results on partitions of positive integers and direct decompositions of torsion-free (...)

The ideal way to start your weekend, Fridays@Five offers unique musical experiences to delight all music lovers. See young artists be inspired through a variety of masterclasses, workshops, pre-concert talks, lectures and Q&A sessions. Delve deep into music or simply enjoy a free informal (...)