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December 2016
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Thursday 01 |
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 (...)
13:00 - EVENT - Free Adult Hearing Checks by Telethon Speech and Hearing : In conjunction with UWA Exercise and Performance Centre free testing by Telethon Speech and Hearing
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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
18:00 - FREE LECTURE - The 2016 Ian Constable Lecture : Prof John Mattick | Garvan Institute of Medical Research, Sydney
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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. ”
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Wednesday 07 |
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 (...)
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Tuesday 20 |
9:00 - CONFERENCE - WA Teaching and Learning Forum 2017 : "Innovation: Multiple Dimensions in Teaching and Learning
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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 (...)
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February 2017
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Saturday 11 |
10:00 - OPEN DAY - Lions Eye Institute Open Day : LEI's New $5M hi-tech clinic - The gift of sight
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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.
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March 2017
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Friday 03 |
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 (...)
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April 2017
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Thursday 27 |
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 (...)
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May 2017
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Friday 05 |
11:00 - SEMINAR - Regional Development in a Resource Production System: Long Distance Commuting, Population Growth and Wealth Redistribution in the WA Goldfields
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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 (...)
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Friday 26 |
11:00 - SEMINAR - Connecting with Nature in the City: nonmaterial benefits from urban green space in Perth
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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 (...)
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June 2017
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Friday 02 |
11:00 - SEMINAR - An application of Hierarchical Information Integration to environmental valuation: marine management in Morten Bay, Queensland
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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 (...)
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Wednesday 07 |
13:00 - PUBLIC LECTURE - 2017 Postgraduate Showcase: Frontiers in Agriculture : Come and hear UWA's top postgraduate students present their research in agriculture and related areas
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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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July 2017
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Wednesday 12 |
14:00 - EVENT - Chinese Economy Conference 2017 : China’s “New Normal” Growth: Opportunities and Challenges, Perth, 12-15 July 2017
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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.
18:00 - PUBLIC LECTURE - Re-balancing and Sustaining China's Economic Growth : China in Conversation
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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 (...)
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Monday 31 |
16:00 - EVENT - Psychology Special Colloquium: Improving Personality Assessment: Facets, Response Models, and Utility (Dr. Sasha Chernyshenko)
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Title: Improving Personality Assessment: Facets, Response Models, and Utility.
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Personality traits are among the most widely studied individual difference variables in psychological research. Numerous primary and meta-analytic studies have established their importance (...)
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August 2017
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Friday 04 |
11:00 - SEMINAR - The Willingness to Pay for Organic Attributes in the UK
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Abstract: There has been almost no recent formal economic analysis of the WTP of British consumers for organic products. Given the rising demand for organic products on one hand and the decline in the organically farmed area in the UK on the other hand, this is an important topic to address. The (...)
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Friday 11 |
11:00 - SEMINAR - Agricultural Groundwater Markets: An Analysis of the Gains from Trade and the Role of Market Power
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Abstract: Groundwater is becoming a more widely regulated resource, yet the impacts of groundwater markets are not well understood. With an application to a groundwater basin in southern California, I develop a theoretical and simulation model of groundwater trading to estimate the gains from (...)
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Thursday 17 |
18:00 - PUBLIC LECTURE - What�s So New About the �Gig� Economy? ... and What Should Be Done About It? : Contemporary Issues in Employment Relations Annual Lecture 2017
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The development of platform-based businesses (like Uber), which utilise on-call contingent labour to do the work, has led some commentators to proclaim that traditional “jobs” as we know them will come to an end. Instead of being employees, workers will support themselves as flexible, free (...)
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Friday 18 |
14:00 - EVENT - Psychology Special Colloquium: What shapes work design and how work design shapes employee wellbeing (Dr. Daniela Andrei)
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Title: What shapes work design and how work design shapes employee wellbeing
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There is already considerable evidence around the positive effects good work design for a wide range of individual and organisational outcomes. But although we know a great deal about how (...)
16:00 - EVENT - Psychology Special Colloquium; A product of their environment: contextual challenges faced by modern teams (William kramer)
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Title: A Product of Their Environment: Contextual Challenges Faced by Modern Teams
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As organizations expand across time and space, teams are faced with increasing task complexity ranging from completing creative tasks with dispersed team members to safely sending (...)
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