What's On at UWA

The Graduate Management Association of UWA and the French Australian Chamber of Commerce present ‘The Changing Landscape of International Business’.

Join us, a panel of industry experts and other like-minded business professionals to learn about the new rules, risks and strategies of (...)

Research indicates the provision of video feedback on student assessments results in an overwhelmingly positive impact on engagement, performance and overall perception of the unit and its coordinator. Join Learning Technologists Liberty Cramer and Michelle Bunting from the Centre for Education (...)

The 3rd Annual EMERGE Business School HDR Conference is designed to provide Higher Degree by Research students with the opportunity to present and receive invaluable feedback from their fellow researchers.

This year 19 HDR candidates will present on a rich array of topics from across all (...)

In November this year the University of Western Australia will again be hosting the 29th PhD Conference in Economics and Business.

The Conference was initiated by the UWA Business School in 1987 and is now a joint venture between UWA, the Australian National University, the University of (...)

The Australian-China Centre for Transcultural Studies (ACTS), Beijing Foreign Studies University and The University of Western Australia invite you to engage in the critical issues and perspectives in a Globalised World at the China in Australia Symposium on the 25 November.

Scholars (...)

IBECC 2016 is Australia's premier Indigenous business and economic conference, hosted by Centre for Social Impact UWA and the UWA School of Indigenous Studies.

Since the first IBECC in 2011, the Indigenous business, enterprise and corporations sector has grown in size and scope despite (...)

Telethon Speech and Hearing Audiologist will be on site at the UWA Exercise and Performance Centre December 1st 2016 providing free screening and Hearing Tests. BOOKINGS ESSENTIAL

The 2016 Ian Constable Lecture will be delivered by Professor John Mattick, Executive Director, Garvan Institute of Medical Research, Sydney. The topic will cover ” The central role of RNA in human evolution and development. ”

The Forum brings together researchers from Australia and internationally, to foster the development of young researchers - the future thought leaders of tomorrow.

The program will comprise of keynote addresses by invited speakers and a small selection of presentations by emerging (...)

Innovation: Multiple Dimensions in Teaching and Learning

The 2017 Teaching and Learning Forum (TLF2017) continues a 26 year tradition of bringing together educators from institutions from around Perth and beyond to discuss, share, and develop their ideas on current trends and good (...)

Have a chat with LEI's Managing Director Professor David Mackey. Meet the staff and clinicians at the new $5M Hi-tech clinic. Take a tour of our state-of-the-art Outback Vision Van. Try the simulator glasses that mimic eye diseases. Everyone welcome to learn about the special gift of sight.

Longitudinal studies of populations have achieved significant results, for example the long-running study of the health of residents of Bunbury. So far however there have not been any economics equivalents. There is therefore very little knowledge about the way subjective economic variables change (...)

Do you have a fantastic research project idea but need more funding or study participants to take it further? Come along and find out how Crowd Research at UWA can help.

A light lunch will be provided.

This seminar will give an overview of:

. What is Crowd Research (...)

Resource towns often exist on a knife-edge, largely depending upon global demand for their resource/s and, at the same time, playing a critical role in the development of a nation. The transition from single resource towns to diversified economies has been modelled on several occasions, but their (...)

What’s your favourite green space in Perth? What makes it special? Do you connect with nature in the city, how does it happen and does it even matter? These are the sorts of questions that Dawn has been exploring for her PhD and this talk will present some of the findings from her work so far (...)

Hierarchical Information Integration/Integrated Choice Experiments are methods of dealing with large numbers of attributes in a discrete choice experiment. It has been widely applied in the transport literature, and to some extent in health, but there have been no applications in the (...)

Come and hear UWA's top postgraduate students present their research in agriculture and related areas.

Vice-Chancellor Prof Dawn Freshwater will give the opening address.

Afternoon tea is provided and the event will be followed by drinks and nibbles in the Bayliss Foyer.
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The conference is jointly organised by UWA Business School, the University of Western Australia, and the Chinese Economics Society Australia (CESA). It is also the 29th Annual Meeting of the Society.

China has enjoyed almost four decades of high economic growth. This growth has slowed in recent years due to rising domestic wages, a rapidly ageing population and falling demand for exports.

Further growth will rely on economic restructuring and deepening reforms. This China in (...)

Title: Improving Personality Assessment: Facets, Response Models, and Utility.

Abstract

Personality traits are among the most widely studied individual difference variables in psychological research. Numerous primary and meta-analytic studies have established their importance (...)