What's On at UWA

As part of the ‘Coastal Futures – Planning and Adaptation in a Changing Climate’ event series this session will focus on regional responses, local solutions and community resilience in the face of climate change. Hear from our experts about how coastal communities can prepare for and adapt to the challenges brought on by global warming.

Join us for this interactive lunchtime seminar to gain a better understanding of the challenges and opportunities for WA, and in particular regional coastal communities, in terms of preparedness for a future dominated by the effects of climate change.

This event series is a collaboration between the UWA Public Policy Institute, Oceans Institute, and Wave Energy Research Centre.

The UWA Institute of Agriculture's 2021 Industry Forum will explore the topic "Future-proofing WA agriculture: Maximising opportunities for a resilient food production system".

The Industry Forum, now in its 15th consecutive year, brings together members of the agribusiness industry, key opinion leaders, farmers and researchers to discuss a current topic affecting agriculture in Western Australia.

This course involves a combination of online (eLearning) followed by a 4 hour practical workshop. This course teaches staff how to provide initial support to people who are developing a mental illness or experiencing a mental health crisis. It is comprehensive, covering all common mental health problems and crisis situations. It is offered by Human Resources in partnership with the Student Health Promotion Unit.

Researchers: so you want to work with government but not sure where to begin? Join us for an interactive workshop where you’ll meet and learn from early-career and established researchers who’ve done it, as well as government figures who have benefitted from UWA research collaborations.

The UWA Institute of Agriculture is proud to host the 2021 UWA Farm Ridgefield Open Day.

This event will showcase key UWA research projects including the Avon River Catchment Critical Zone Observatory, 'Enrich' Forage Systems, Oestrogenic Subclover pastures, the Land Restoration Demonstration Site and more.

Book a seat on the return bus from UWA here: https://bit.ly/3ju9Zw8

All are welcome to attend.

Venue: UWA Club, Banquet Hall, Crawley Cost: $60 (Students $45) inc presentations and refreshments.

Learn about the practicalities of applying to EU framework programs, European Research Council (ERC) Grants and Marie Sklodowska-Curie actions (MSCA)

Hear firsthand from a panel of UWA winners and meet the people who can help you build networks and support your application.

In this event, we’ll unpack the steps towards the future of travel and border restrictions: state and international borders, regulation of travel, quarantine and vaccination requirements.

What would it take for us to open up again, and what would this new world look like? What are the benefits of open borders – economically, socially, nationally – and what are the potential costs and risks?

Knowing how to treat stress-specific issues can increase resilience, performance and improve subjective wellbeing. This presentation defines stress, assists participants to distinguish between stress and anxiety, and provides practical strategies to reduce stress.

An exciting concert featuring talented UWA Brass Students, including solo works, plus those for Brass Ensemble.

Free event - no bookings required

Disrupting for Good is a free public lecture delivered by Cara Peek and hosted by The UWA Institute of Agriculture.

Cara identifies as many things – a Yawuru/Bunuba woman, a successful lawyer, a diverse entrepreneurial leader and even a part-time “cowgirl".

As co-founder of The Cultural Intelligence Project, she is currently launching an innovative First Nations Entrepreneurs hub; MakeItHappenHQ.

Cara also leads the annual female-run indigenous event Rhythm+Ride Rodeo, and is the current recipient of the prestigious Winston Churchill Fellowship and AgriFutures Rural Women’s Award.

This ACG workshop will focus on new developments relating to conventional terrestrial monitoring systems such as open pit radars, prisms, laser scanning, and photogrammetry, as well as the integration of the different types of these monitoring systems and their interpretation. Application examples of many companies providing these new technologies include land cover determination, feature extraction, persistent change detection and monitoring, terrain slope characterisation, soils modelling and saturated ground detection. Considerable advances have also been made in remote sensing by using a wide variety of different types of unmanned aerial/piloted vehicles (UAVs), commonly known as drones and also referred to as remotely piloted aircraft (RPA), in monitoring mine sites. This workshop will also explore the advances in the in-ground monitoring of deformation and pore pressure in open pit mining that may be able to provide advance notice of ground movement and changes in pore pressure that might affect slope stability.

October 25-31 is Open Access Week! Open Access Australasia have planned a festival of thoughtful panels and topical presentations for OA week 2021. Join your colleagues from the UWA Library for a viewing of this online panel session and discussion afterwards.

The outputs from academic research are many and varied. Funding agencies, institutions that employ researchers, and researchers themselves all have a desire and need to assess the quality and impact of academic outputs, to ensure they are assessed accurately and evaluated fairly. In order to support a change to more open research practices, and to support early career researchers, a change in thinking is needed in how research is valued and assessed. Join us for a panel discussion on ways in which research assessment can be improved.

Chair: Dr Emma Burrows, Dion Detterer

Panel: Prof. Kimberlee Weatherall, Prof. Robert Mailhammer, Tara McLaren

Delivered in partnership with Medibank,this one-hour introductory seminar will discuss why you should avoid multitasking and instead practice habits around thoughts, emotions and behaviours which lead to greater mindfulness, clarity and quality of life.

October 25-31 is Open Access Week! Open Access Australasia have planned a festival of thoughtful panels and topical presentations for OA week 2021. Join your colleagues from the UWA Library for a viewing of this online panel session and discussion afterwards.

Research involving Indigenous People and Knowledge can require deeper consideration than simply ‘open’ or ‘closed’. This session will focus on the experiences of First Nations researchers and those conducting research with Indigenous Peoples. We will discuss the guiding concepts and how these can be put into practice, illustrated with case studies.

[The scope of these sessions are being developed with participants and may evolve before the session]

Chair: Kim Tairi

Panel: Maui Hudson, Dr Levon Ellen Blue, Spencer Lilley, Robin Wright

October 25-31 is Open Access Week! Open Access Australasia have planned a festival of thoughtful panels and topical presentations for OA week 2021. Join your colleagues from the UWA Library for a viewing of this online panel session and discussion afterwards.

You’ve heard of open access for research publications, but have you considered the role of openness in teaching and learning? In this interactive session, we’ll explore open educational resources (OERs) and their benefits, through a series of case studies and unpack some of the barriers to using, adapting and creating OERs. Whether you are new to OERs or an experienced OER specialist, join us for this interactive event and be part of the conversation on moving the OER agenda forward at a national level.

Panel: Dr Steven Chang, Dr Kate Davis, Tahnee Pearse, Fiona Salisbury, Marion Slawson, Adrian Stagg

October 25-31 is Open Access Week! Open Access Australasia have planned a festival of thoughtful panels and topical presentations for OA week 2021. Join your colleagues from the UWA Library for a viewing of this online panel session and discussion afterwards.

Academic communication can be highly exclusionary. How can we make research findings more accessible whilst retaining accuracy? Our panel of experts in social media outreach, communicating across the sciences, arts and humanities, and visualising research will discuss how to work genuinely accessible for greater equity and impact.

Chair: Sally Murray-Walsh

Panel: Dr Emma Beckett, Dr Drew Berry, Elliott Bledsoe, Dr Tseen Khoo

Delivered in conjunction with Medibank, this introductory seminar can assist participants to identify our learned responses to stress and to recognise our unique character strengths. Using principles of positive psychology, participants will learn the strategies that can help them access and build on their character strengths when it matters most.

This inaugural symposium, sponsored by The Australian Sociological Association, brings together WA sociologists to showcase their work and practice from academic and applied contexts. Over 20 speakers will share work from WA.

Socialising your research can be a great way to increase visibility of your work and publications and lead to increased collaborations and citations. As well as using both UWA's and your own social media networks, 'socialising' your research also encompasses other online exposure. Come and learn from researchers who have been successfully socialising their research across a range of subject areas to find out what works and how to get started.