What's On at UWA

The Office of Industry & Innovation will be holding its next "IP Commercialisation Seminar" for all UWA researchers (staff and postgraduate students). Registration is essential as light lunch will be provided. Some key elements of the workshop will include: Intellectual property and (...)

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Stan & Jean Perron Visiting Professor Tina Dacin, E. Marie Shantz Professor of Strategy and Organisational Behaviour Queen's School of Business, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada. She is the Director of the Queen's School of Business Centre (...)

Nic Groenewold from UWA Business School will present on 'The fiscal expansion and Australia’s post GFC performance'

Ms Jodie Nelson from Queensland University of Technology will present on the topic 'The impact of corporate governance on CEO remuneration structures in the aftermath of the GFC'

Uta Bindl from UWA Business School will present on the topic 'Proactivity and affect'

The talk will be given by Winthrop Professor Julie Lee, of the UWA Business School. Julie received her PhD from the University of Illinois in 1996. Her current research focuses on the theory, measurement and impact of personal values across cultures. Abstract: Schwartz (1992) value theory (...)

On a size-adjusted basis, economics is more important in Australia than many other countries including the US and the UK. As part of UWA's long history of producing economists who go on to have successful careers, the new Economist Lecture Series fills a gap in the understanding of what an (...)

Karen Knight from UWA Business School will present on the topic 'Methodology in the history of economic thought'

Al Etmanski and Vickie Cammack have been socialinnovators in Canada for almost 30 years. These days Al is an author,blogger, advocate and social entrepreneur specializing in innovative, multi-sector solotions to complex social challenges.

Vickie Cammack finds and implements innovative (...)

Rob Lambert from UWA Business School will present on the topic 'Agent of the Market or Instrument of Justice: Trade Union Identity in the Age of Market Driven Politics'

UWA Business School host a seminar with Assistant Professor Wade Jarvis 'Is Brand Performance correlated with sub-category performance'

Associate Professor Susan Wright from Macquarie University will present on the topic 'The Impact of Compulsory Audit Tendering on Discretionary Accruals: Evidence from NSW Local Government'

John Tang from the Australian National University will present on the topic 'Pollution havens and the trade in toxic chemicals: evidence from U.S. trade flows'

Carmen Lawrence from UWA School of Psychology will present on the topic 'Social Change and Greening'

MAITI Nepal was born in 1993 through a group of socially committed professionals to protect Nepali girls and women from crimes like domestic violence, trafficking for flesh trade, child prostitution, child labour and various forms of exploitation and torture.

Ms Anuradha Koirala will (...)

Professor Charl De Villiers from the University of Auckland will present on the topic 'Corporate Social Disclosures: Country Determinants'

Mark Harris form Monash University will present on the topic 'Inflated Outcomes in Measures of Self-Assessed Health?'

Dr Andrew Ainsworth from the University of Sydney will present on the topic 'Credit Default Swaps and Analyst Earnings Forecasts'

Yanrui Wu from UWA Business School will present on the topic 'Energy use and environmental management in China'

The annual Australasian Development Economics Workshop, sponsored by AusAID, brings together development economists from Australia and internationally with particular emphasis on the Asia-Pacific region.

The next workshop is the seventh in the series and will be hosted by the Business (...)